Bill McKibben’s Posts

• What a difference a day makes

  Day of Climate Action shows power of web organizing. Join us! 2

  Posted 2 weeks, 5 days agoThe 350.org campaign has gone viral in recent weeks, in the lead-up to the International Day of Climate Action. There will be more than 4,000 events in almost 170 countries on Oct. 24—pretty much every place that isn’t Burma or North Korea. Join author/activist Bill McKibben, Grist founder Chip Giller, and people around the globe to demand real climate action.

• A big day

  Pachauri's call for 350 ppm is breakthrough moment for climate movement 13

  Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago

  Amazing news just arrived at 350.org headquarters.  Rajendra Pachauri, the U.N.'s top climate scientist, has endorsed a target of 350 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere.

• Oh, Here It Is!

  Four years after my pleading essay, climate art is hot 12

  Posted 3 months ago

  Four years ago, you'd have been hard-pressed to find a song, or a photo, or a play about climate change. All that's changed, as artists of every stripe confront our greatest global challenge.

• Fiddling While the Coal Burns

  Eight years of Bush inaction leave Obama with a near-impossible challenge 4

  Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago

  Given the sheer number of candidates for "worst legacy of the Bush years," it may seem perverse to pick the hundreds of coal-fired power plants that have opened across China during his administration. But given their cumulative effect -- quite possibly the concrete block that broke the climate-camel's already straining back -- I think they may be what history someday seizes on. And they are emblematic of George W. Bush's utter failure to help the world rein in carbon emissions at what may have been the last possible moment.

  When Bush first took office, China (and really India as well)… Read More

• It's time to aim low

  After Poland talks, a new reality starts to set in, says McKibben; 350 ppm must be the goal 22

  Posted 10 months, 4 weeks ago

  

  I spent the last few nights of the recent Poznan climate conference sleeping in the By the Way youth hostel, an excellent accommodation filled with excellent young people who had done excellent work at the negotiations. After the final day of deliberations, many of these young people visited the doubtless excellent discotheques of Poznan, returning home beginning about 4 a.m. in various states of excited giddiness. This allowed those of us (well, the one of us) of a more elderly persuasion an excellent opportunity to lie awake, thinking over the… Read More

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