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Rethinking the bottom line Bill McKibben questions thinking as usual when it comes to climate.	Anna Fahey	21 Mar 2007	Gristmill
The old thinking, as author and thinker Bill McKibben explains in today's LA Times, goes like this: bigger is always better, growth is good no matter what, and a booming stock market is the ultimate measure of our success. McKibben illustrates the kind of lopsided priorities that naturally flow when we're ruled by the bottom line, pointing to a scarcely-reported White House report that said the U.S. would be pumping out almost 20 percent more greenhous ...
Topics: agriculture, Bill McKibben, farmers markets, food, green living, health, local food (all these topics)

Bill McKibben: Warning on Warming A new essay from the man	David Roberts	19 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Tom Engelhardt of the indispensable Tom's Dispatch received permission from the editors of the New York Review of Books to reprint an essay by Bill McKibben that appears in the current issue. He passed that permission along to me. Thanks to Tom, the editors at NYRB, and of course Bill for his tireless advocacy. ----- Warning on Warming By Bill McKibben [This piece, which appears in the March 15, 2007 issue of The New York Review of Books is posted here with ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change adaptation, consumerism, population (all these topics)

Bright lining Lines that are bright, how we love them	David Roberts	17 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Bill McKibben's Step It Up 2007 campaign (read his dispatches) is trying to rally a bunch of simultaneous protests pushing a single goal: reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 80% by 2050. This approach -- picking a goal rather than supporting specific legislation -- is known as bright lining, and it's something you're going to hear a lot more about on this site fairly soon (stay tuned!). I'm a big fan. What if we could get every green group to agree on a bright line ...
Topics: climate change adaptation, Bill McKibben, fuel efficiency, energy efficiency (all these topics)

The most important eco-books: an alternative list Newer and cheekier!	Emily Gertz	21 Dec 2006	Gristmill
With sincere respect to my colleagues across the Atlantic (this is all a matter of opinion, after all), I'm dismayed by some of the choices on their list of most important environmental books. Hoary tomes like The Lorax, an analysis of the impact of pesticides on the environment that's nearly a half-century old (I shake in my boots to criticize La Carson thus) ... if the list were of books that had a big impact in their time, or books that will bolster the sentiments of ...
Topics: Bill McDonough, Bill McKibben, books (all these topics)

McKibben on 'green' Wal-Mart Wal-Mart may sell organic, but it also thrives on ruined downtowns and long freight hauls.	Tom Philpott	21 Nov 2006	Gristmill
I've always been a bit appalled by the polite applause with which some enviros greet Wal-Mart's 'green' initiatives. Seems to me that the only way the company could really 'go green' would be to stop selling cheap plastic crap shipped in from halfway around the world in vast suburban megastores. In other words, completely change it's business model -- not, say, adopt 'green' building techniques for its appalling superstores, or haul mass-produced 'organic' food from Cal ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, business, food, greening biz operations, greenish companies, organic food, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

To Tell the Truth An artist invokes the spirit of courageous Americans, past and present	Robert Shetterly	07 Nov 2006	Main Dish
Editor's note: We asked painter Robert Shetterly to share part of a portrait collection and book he's created called "Americans Who Tell the Truth." In addition to eco-legends such as Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey, and even Grist friend Bill McKibben, the artist profiles lesser-known activists who have shown us how to fight loud and proud, every da ...
Topics: art, Bill McKibben, green living, United States (all these topics)

Bill McKibben: How close to catastrophe? A new essay	David Roberts	22 Oct 2006	Gristmill
What follows is a new essay by Bill McKibben, addressing -- in the context of reviewing five new books -- just how close we are to ecological catastrophe, and what reasons there are for hope. The essay will appear in the Nov. 16 edition of the New York Review of Books. The NYRB editors gave Tom Engelhardt's excellent TomDispatch permission to publish it in advance; he in turn gave me permission to run it here. Thanks to Tom and to the NYRB editors. Don't miss this ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate change adaptation, politics (all these topics)

Born Again, Again Will evangelicals help save the earth?	Bill McKibben	05 Oct 2006	Main Dish
Copyright 2006 by Bill McKibben. First published in OnEarth, a publication of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Reprinted by permission. First came the mighty winds, blowing across the Gulf with unprecedented fury, leveling cities and towns, washing away the houses built on sand. Toss in record flooding across the Northeast, and one of the warmest winters humans have known on this continent, and a prolonge ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, environmental movement, God and the Environment, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Bill McKibben on Big Picture TV Watch	David Roberts	29 Sep 2006	Gristmill
Despite my best efforts, I can never get the videos on Big Picture TV to work. (I wish everyone would just switch to Flash, a la YouTube.) But perhaps you can. If so, go check out the three clips of Bill McKibben they just put up. And let me know if they're any good.
Topics: Bill McKibben, TV (all these topics)

And They're Off! Bush's climate plan will kick-start a new era of bargaining over the planet's future	Bill McKibben	21 Sep 2006	Soapbox
On your mark ... Get set ... Go? Photo: iStockphoto And so the bargaining has begun. After almost two decades of inaction, at long last America seems ready to start considering some kind of action to address global warming. With states setting conflicting standards, with the scientists announcing weekly updates on the speed and size of the approaching cataclysm, w ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, legislation, litigation, politics (all these topics)

A new natural capitalism	Maywa Montenegro	17 Aug 2006	Gristmill
I'm going to sit the fence on Kit's poll by saying that reigning in climate change will require both a re-envisioning of capitalism and a revision of our core values. An excellent professor of mine at MIT introduced our class to the concept of 'natural capitalism,' pioneered by Paul Hawkins and Amory and L. Hunter Lovins. Their 1999 book on the subject, probably familiar to many of you, was an eye-opener for me at the time. Here is a short synopsis of the book from ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, Bill McKibben, business, oil, politics, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

The Present Future	David Roberts	08 Feb 2006	Gristmill
Glimpsing the predicament of our moment, of "a human world newly and suddenly vulnerable to the forces of a changed planet," writer and artist team up to question the fantasy of human control over destiny. That's the tag line for "The Present Future: Paintings for a very hot planet," a showcase of paintings by Alexis Rockman, accompanied by an essay from Bill McKibben, in the latest issue of Orion Magazine. Check it out.
Topics: Bill McKibben (all these topics)

No More Mr. Nice Guy Climate change is pushing this easygoing enviro over the edge	Bill McKibben	12 Jan 2006	Soapbox
The one and only time I ever saw my mother become aggressive in public went like this. We were out as a family for a weekend leaf-peeping drive, an impulse apparently shared by most of the rest of New England, because the traffic along New Hampshire's Kancamagus Highway was endless 90-degree gridlock. Every once in a while, however, somebody would zoom happily by in the breakdown lane. ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, energy, Massachusetts, politics, wind power (all these topics)

Enviros call on RFK Jr. to support Cape Wind project Over 150 activists send letter asking Kennedy to reconsider position	Lisa Hymas	06 Jan 2006	Gristmill
Cape Wind Associates' plan to build a big wind-power farm off the coast of Cape Cod has been dividing enviros for years, but the disagreement got a lot more heated last month when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ran a high-profile op-ed railing against the project in The New York Times. An excerpt: These turbines are less than six miles from shore and would be seen from Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Hundreds of flashing lights to warn airplanes away from the turbines ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change adaptation, energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

McKibben in NYRB	David Roberts	02 Jan 2006	Gristmill
I don't have a new intro, so I'll just steal my last one: "Every column Bill McKibben writes on climate change becomes more dread-laden and portentous, but I never stop enjoying them." The latest is "The Coming Meltdown," in the New York Review of Books. There's not a lot of new info in it (unless you're interested in the two books reviewed), but as always, it's engagingly written and contains some juicy quotes. How about this, from Harvard's J ...
Topics: Bill McKibben (all these topics)

McKibben and Sierra Magazine	David Roberts	27 Dec 2005	Gristmill
Every column Bill McKibben writes on climate change becomes more dread-laden and portentous, but I never stop enjoying them. His latest is "Year One" in Sierra Magazine. The money clip: We will soon learn, for example, that what we've been calling 'global warming' is better thought of as excess energy trapped in the atmosphere, which will express itself in every possible way. Like the Bush administration's energy bill, these manifestations will also be ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, Sierra Club (all these topics)

No Talk and No Action Why the Montreal climate summit was too painful to watch	Bill McKibben	12 Dec 2005	Soapbox
I've been to climate meetings in locales that stretch from Kyoto to The Hague, Mexico City to the Maldives. It would have been awfully easy to get in the old hybrid and drive two hours north to Montreal for the big climate-change confab that wrapped up this weekend -- if nothing else, it's a city I love deeply. But I couldn't bring myself to do it in the end. I knew it was going to be too ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, Canada, climate, politics, United States (all these topics)

Coming attractions Could TV and film be the key to the renewable energy revolution?	Chris Schults	05 Aug 2005	Gristmill
On several occasions I have written about television shows and movies. In doing so, I've tried (albeit unsuccessfully) to start a discussion about the impact they have on audiences when they address environmental issues and/or feature eco-friendly products (hybrids, windmills, etc). Recently, I issued a call asking (and paraphrasing Bill McKibben): 'Where are the movies? The TV shows? The comics? The bleeping video games?' I believe exposure to such content will help ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, energy, energy efficiency, messaging, movies, TV, United States (all these topics)

Imagine That What the warming world needs now is art, sweet art	Bill McKibben	21 Apr 2005	Soapbox
Shall I compare thee to climate change? Here's the paradox: if the scientists are right, we're living through the biggest thing that's happened since human civilization emerged. One species, ours, has by itself in the course of a couple of generations managed to powerfully raise the temperature of an entire planet, to knock its most basic systems out of kilter. But oddly, though we know about it, we don' ...
Topics: art, Bill McKibben, climate, green living (all these topics)

As the world burns Mother Jones runs a package on global warming	David Roberts	18 Apr 2005	Gristmill
Don't miss the current issue of Mother Jones, with a feature package called "As the World Burns" about, as you might surmise, global warming. Here's a chunk of the Editor's Note (which is worth reading in its entirety): In his article "Some Like It Hot" (page 36), Chris Mooney pinpoints a critical distinction in the battle over global warming. The think tanks, crank scientists, and pseudo-journalists who dispute climate c ...
Topics: Bill McKibben (all these topics)

McKibben on Cuba and organic farming The Soviet Union's collapse led to a revolution in Cuba's farming system	David Roberts	11 Apr 2005	Gristmill
Speaking of the latest issue of Harper's, it also contains a great piece by frequent Grist contributor Bill McKibben called "The Cuba Diet." (It's reprinted in full on this blog.) Dang, the dude can write. The piece begins as a sort of anthropological meander through Cuba's agricultural system. Turns out, when the Soviet Union fell, Cuba's heavily-subsidized, mechanized, chemical-soaked farm system collapsed. It was a huge and sudden ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, Cuba, organic food (all these topics)

Hot wind	David Roberts	16 Feb 2005	Gristmill
Frequent Grist contributor Bill McKibben has a column in today's NYT saying that environmentalists should get behind wind energy. He is sympathetic to some enviros' objections and rather gentle toward them. I fully agree with McKibben, but I can't say I share his sympathy. Oil and gas exploration is ravaging the American West. The nuclear industry is resurgent. And oh yeah, the globe is frying. If environmentalists take global warming seriously, and expect others to ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, Massachusetts, oil, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Where Do We Go, Where Do We Go Now? Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a conference on winning the climate-change fight		27 Jan 2005	Dispatches
Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and a member of Grist's board of directors. His latest book is Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Thursday, 27 Jan 2005 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. Here's the different thing about this conference. Although participants spanned the generations, it was organized in large measure by 20 students here at Middlebury ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics)

Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do? Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a conference on winning the climate-change fight		26 Jan 2005	Dispatches
Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and a member of Grist's board of directors. His latest book is Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Wednesday, 26 Jan 2005 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. The bad boys of American environmentalism made their case this morning, and they made it well. By the time Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus had finished pre ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics)

Changing the Climate-Change Climate Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a conference on winning the climate-change fight		25 Jan 2005	Dispatches
Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and a member of Grist's board of directors. His latest book is Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Tuesday, 25 Jan 2005 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. A crisp, cold, blue-sky New England day, fresh snow on the ground, and everything right with the world. Except that last night, as I was preparing to attend a thre ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics)

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