Summary

Bill McKibben is an author, environmentalist, and activist.  In 1988, he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming.  He is the co-founder of 350.org, an international climate campaign that organized the most widespread day of action on global warming in history.

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Editorials and Opeds on 350

• October 19, 2009, Bill McKibben and Chip Giller, Grist, "Day of Climate Action Shows Power of Web Organizing" 
• September 9, 2009, Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. & Bill McKibben, The Nation, “People, Let's Get Our Carbon Down”
• Nov. 6, 2008, Bill McKibben, The Guardian, "Welcome to Reality, Mr. President Elect"
• June 23, 2008 Bill McKibben, Washington Post "End of the Open Road"
• May 11, 2008, Bill McKibben, LA Times, "Civilization's Last Chance"

www.billmckibben.com

Bill McKibben's Biography

Bill McKibben, a well known environmental author and activist, is the founder of 350.org, an international climate change campaign. 350.org is named for the safe level of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere, 350 parts per million. This October 24, Bill and 350.org are coordinating an International Day of Climate Action to call for a strong climate treaty that meets the 350 target.

When he's not busy organizing, Bill is an active writer on the climate crisis and other environmental issues. His 1989 book The End of Nature was the first book to warn the general public about the threat of global warming. Bill is a frequent contributor to various magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. He is also a board member and contributor to Grist Magazine. He has been awarded Guggenheim and Lyndhurst Fellowships, and won the Lannan Prize for nonfiction writing in 2000. He is currently a Scholar in Residence at Middlebury College and lives in Ripton, Vermont with his wife, author Sue Halpern, and daughter Sophie. 

For more information, please visit: www.billmckibben.com

Bill's been leading the fight against global warming for 20 years, since he wrote the first book for a general audience on the subject, The End of Nature in 1989. But, let's face it, taking on the climate crisis is going to take more than a few good books: it's going to take a movement.

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