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350 or bust The 350ppm challenge to U.S. environmental organizations and the importance of McKibben's 350.org	Ken Ward	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Bill McKibben spoke about 350.org recently at the Jamaica Plain Forum. Coming on the heels of recent talks by Ross Gelbspan, also at the JP Forum, and Jim Hansen, in Lexington, Mass., Bill's talk completed a trifecta of area appearances by climate action patriots. My friend Andrée, who attended all three events, said: 'Hansen has the reserve of a scientist, and the certainty of someone who knows he is right. McKibben is just like his writing -- philosophical, wry ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, economy, environmental movement, grassroots activism, James Hansen, politics (all these topics)

350.org up and running Go get your grassroots on	David Roberts	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
350.org has officially launched, in eight languages. Grassroots actions are now being planned around the world, from the Great Wall of China to the Eiffel Tower. Here's a fantastic video: For more on 350, see: Bill McKibben on the need for 350ppm as a global target Bill McKibben on the kick-off of 350.org Me on the release of James Hansen's seminal 350 paper Joe Romm on the release of Hansen's paper Hansen's paper (PDF)
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, grassroots activism (all these topics)

e360 and states New Yale green site draws attention to state climate efforts	David Roberts	13 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I think various Grist contributors have linked over there a few times already, but I've been remiss in not explicitly noting the debut of environment360, the new online publication from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. It's come out of the gate with a bang, with pieces from high-profile writers like Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Denis Hayes. In particular, check out 'States Take the Lead on Climate,' by Michael Northrop and David Sasso ...
Topics: Bill Mckibben, climate, economy, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Frustrated? Let's write our own climate legislation! A 'sense of the House' resolution to adopt 350 ppm as America's official climate target	Guest author	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Colin Beavan, otherwise known as No Impact Man. His family's year-long sustainable living project is the subject of a forthcoming book from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He blogs at No Impact Man. ----- This may seem hokey, but I'm so far beyond frustrated with the legislators of this country that I've gone and written my own piece of climate change legislation. My bill is simple. Once you get past all the 'whereas' and so forth, it simply ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, Ed Markey, Kyoto Protocol, politics (all these topics)

350.org conference call	David Roberts	22 May 2008	Gristmill
As he told Grist readers earlier this year, Bill McKibben is kicking off a new campaign based around the number 350 -- as in 350 parts-per-million of CO2 in the atmosphere, the level scientists like Jim Hansen now believe is the safe upper threshold. (The bad news: we're already closing in on 390.) The website, 350.org, officially launches in June, and in the meantime you can check out the 350 Challenge. McKibben held a conference call with bloggers yesterday, wherei ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate science, grassroots activism, websites (all these topics)

350 sense McKibben kicks off 350.org, a new international grassroots climate campaign	Guest author	18 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Bill McKibben is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and author of a dozen books, most recently The Bill McKibben Reader. ----- If only atmospheric chemistry gave you points for trying. A year ago this week, we were celebrating. I and six college-age colleagues of mine, joined by thousands of organizers across the country, had managed to pull off 1,400 simultaneous demonstrations against global warming in all 50 states. Though we didn't have much in the w ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Parting company with McKibben and, maybe, Hansen What is the safe upper limit for atmospheric CO2?	Joseph Romm	31 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The nation's top climate scientist, NASA's James Hansen, apparently now believes 'the safe upper limit for atmospheric CO2 is no more than 350 ppm,' according to an op-ed by the great environmental writer Bill McKibben. Yet while preindustrial levels were 280, we're now already at more than 380 and rising 2 ppm a year! Like many people, in the 1990s I believed 550 was the target needed to avoid climate catastrophe -- but now it's clear that: 550 ppm would lea ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, James Hansen (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	06 Nov 2007	Gristmill
'If the internet goes down, global warming will triumph for sure.' -- Bill McKibben
Topics: climate, Bill McKibben, quotables (all these topics)

Watch Our Step Step It Up climate rallies to be held around the country on Saturday		02 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 4:51 AM on 02 Nov 2007 Sixty-nine members of Congress and seven presidential candidates have committed to attend Step It Up rallies on Saturday and talk about their plans to fight climate change. Will you be there to hear what they have to say? Events are planned for dozens of communities all around the U.S. -- come on out and make your voice heard. find an event: Step It Up 2007 < Previous \| Next ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, news, United States (all these topics)

McKibben on waste-heat recovery A very promising climate change solution with an image problem	Erik Hoffner	01 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Bill McKibben's new column in Orion magazine reports on one of the most effective ways to cut carbon emissions that we've got, a mature technology which stands ready to recycle enormous amounts of waste heat into electricity. It boggles my mind that we're not doing this everywhere, instead of discussing new coal plants or nukes. Talk about low-hanging fruit! The article centers on the fine work of the Chicago company Recycled Energy Development, piloted by frequ ...
Topics: recycling, energy, business, energy efficiency, tech, climate, Bill McKibben (all these topics)

The Shape of Good Hope Climate activists have reason to hope even amidst bad news		26 Oct 2007	Dispatches
Bill McKibben is organizing Step It Up 2, a national day of climate action. A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, the first book for a general audience on climate change, and, most recently, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. He serves on Grist's board of directors. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Friday, 26 Oct 2007 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. This ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

They're Stepping Up Edwards, McCain, and Kucinich say they'll speak at Step It Up 2 rallies		16 Oct 2007	Dispatches
Bill McKibben is organizing Step It Up 2, a national day of climate action. A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, the first book for a general audience on climate change, and, most recently, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. He serves on Grist's board of directors. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Tuesday, 16 Oct 2007 MIDDLEBUR ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Stepping it up on activism New book from McKibben & co. aids grassroots action	Erik Hoffner	15 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Tuesday marks the release (yes, on recycled paper) of Fight Global Warming Now, the Step It Up 2007 team's handbook for grassroots action on climate (and most other issues) in our communities. It's a blueprint for success based on their own experiences. Step It Up 2: Who's a Leader is just around the corner (Nov. 3), and there is an increasing corps of leaders committing to turn up at the events: eight members of Congress and two presidential candidates: go here to f ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, books, climate, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Do the Invite Thing Congresspeople are saying 'yes' to Step It Up 2 -- has yours RSVP'd?		03 Oct 2007	Dispatches
Congresspeople are saying "yes" to Step It Up 2 -- has yours RSVP'd? Bill McKibben is organizing Step It Up 2, a national day of climate action. A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, the first book for a general audience on climate change, and, most recently, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. He serves on Grist's board of directors. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Wednesday, 03 Oct 2007 ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

The race to catch up McKibben's clarion call	David Roberts	30 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Bill McKibben has a clarion call of an op-ed in yesterday's Washington Post. The reality of climate change is moving much more quickly than politics: The Democratic majority is finally beginning to move legislation that would commit the United States to long-term reductions in carbon dioxide emissions -- the first law Congress might actually pass in the years since global warming became an issue. But here, too, the legislative process is backing away from what sci ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, politics (all these topics)

Best Foot Forward Ask politicians to join Step It Up 2 and explain their stance on climate change		25 Sep 2007	Dispatches
Bill McKibben is organizing Step It Up 2, a national day of climate action. A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, the first book for a general audience on climate change, and, most recently, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. He serves on Grist's board of directors. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Tuesday, 25 Sep 2007 MID ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Bill McKibben: Can anyone stop it? A review of Lomborg and Shellenberger & Nordhaus	Grist	18 Sep 2007	Gristmill
This piece, which appears in the October 11, 2007, issue of the New York Review of Books, is posted here with the kind permission of the editors of that magazine. ----- CAN ANYONE STOP IT? Bill McKibben Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming by Bjørn Lomborg. Knopf, 253 pp., $21.00 Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger. Houghton Mifflin, 344 p ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, books, climate, environmental movement (all these topics)

Step Higher Step It Up 2 is coming this November -- get ready to hit the streets		07 Aug 2007	Dispatches
Bill McKibben is organizing Step It Up 2, a national day of climate action. A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, the first book for a general audience on climate change, and, most recently, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. He serves on Grist's board of directors. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Tuesday, 07 Aug 2007 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. Move ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

YearlyKos: Step It Up 2 The next round of McKibben's campaign	David Roberts	04 Aug 2007	Gristmill
I forgot some of the coolest (and breaking) news! At my panel earlier today, Bill McKibben "pre-announced" something exciting: On Nov. 3, a year before the presidential election, he will be organizing Step It Up 2: Revenge of the Nerds. OK, I made up the title, but not the news. At the first Step It Up, McKibben's Army asked that people gather in places likely to be affected by climate change. For Step It Up 2, people will be gathering in places that comme ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, energy, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

March Madness Climate marches kick off in New Hampshire and Iowa		02 Aug 2007	Dispatches
A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, the first book for a general audience on climate change, and, most recently, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. He serves on Grist's board of directors. Thursday, 02 Aug 2007 LITCHFIELD, N.H. The climate movement is on the move again. Eleven months after a march across Vermont inaugurated a new, grassroo ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, Dispatches, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Nukes ablaze, but SolarFest burns brighter Vermont renewable energy festival looks to the future	Erik Hoffner	16 Jul 2007	Gristmill
News today that a quake has caused a fire at a nuke plant in Japan follows revelations of operator error that could have caused an accident at the 1,316 MW Krummel reactor in Germany, owned by Vattenfall Europe. When a fire broke out at that plant in late June, operators panicked and put the reactor on emergency shutdown, against their guidelines, and put the reactor at risk. Then Vattenfall tried to cover up what happened. I learned of this at SolarFest this weekend ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, nuclear power, renewable energy, Vermont (all these topics)

Where does our power originate? Convincing evidence for the central role of protest and a troubling cost-benefit analysis	Ken Ward	19 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The most important and relevant research for U.S. environmentalists is being conducted by Jon Agnone, a sociologist at the University of Washington. Agnone studies sources of environmentalist power -- the first social scientist to undertake a systematic analysis. His comprehensive findings are summarized in 'Amplifying Public Opinion: The Policy Impact of the U.S. Environmental Movement' (PDF), appearing in the June 2007 issue of Social Forces. Agnone compared the ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, campus activism, environmental movement, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Looking for a new GW metaphor: Canaries exhausted No more canaries in coal mines, please	Kit Stolz	22 May 2007	Gristmill
While on a book tour recently, Bill McKibben made an interesting point in an appearance in Santa Barbara. McKibben -- a former New Yorker writer who wrote his first book on climate change back in 1989 -- told the crowd that to expect the Sierra Club and traditional conservationists to take on global warming with "the grammar of wildness" that John Muir drew from his life in the Yosemite Valley back in the 1860s was impractical and unfair. He suggested that &q ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, cutesy, environmental movement, messaging, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Climate changes the picture On a new McKibben editorial	Joseph Romm	21 May 2007	Gristmill
If this were the daily sunset you had gotten used to growing up, you would understand the hesitancy of even Bill McKibben, a renowned environmentalist, to okay wind turbines on the horizon, interfering with bird migration in order to generate electricity. However, in an opinion article in which McKibben confesses his sentiment, entitled 'One world, one problem,' he ultimately resolves: In this world, the threat to that landscape, and to those birds, come ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, energy, wind power (all these topics)

One Giant Step for Greenkind Photos and voices from Step It Up 2007 rallies across the U.S.		19 Apr 2007	Main Dish
Click image to view audio slideshow. Photo: Tom Twigg On April 14, 2007, gaggles of enthusiastic Americans gathered at more than 1,400 spots around the U.S. to demand action against climate change, part of a coordinated Step It Up campaign launched by author Bill McKibben. At all the rallies, marches, parties, and other hullabaloos, the message was the same: Step it up, Congress! Enact immedia ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, environmental movement, grassroots activism, heroes (all these topics)

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