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Bill McKibben
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“Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.”
“If we're serious about preventing catastrophic warming, we can't dig any new coal mines, drill any new fields, build any more pipelines. Not a single one.”
“Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.”
“When we talk about alternative energy, there’s solar, and there’s wind. And there’s Bernie Sanders.”
“When confronted by small men doing big and stupid things, we need to resist with all the creativity and wit [that] we can muster, and if we can do so
without losing the civility that makes life enjoyable, then so much the better.”— in the epilogue to new book "Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance"
“Adapt to that which you can't prevent. Prevent that to which you can't adapt.”
— Bill McKibben
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Primary Works
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 | "The End of Nature" [1989 classic; revised 1997] by Bill McKibben Random House 3rd edition pb [6/2006] for $10.17 Tenth Anniversary Edition: Anchor 8x5¼ pb [8/97] for $11.20 Peter Smith 8¼x5¼ hardcover [6/2001] out of print/used Random House 9¾x6¾ hardcover [9/89] out of print/many used |
"The Age of Missing Information" [1992] ISBN 0-394-58933-5
challenges Marshall McLuhan's 'global village' ideal and claims the standardization of life in electronic media is that of image
and not substance, resulting in a loss of meaningful content in society
"Hope, Human, and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly On The Earth" [1995] ISBN 0-316-56064-2
 | "Maybe One: A Case For Smaller Families" [1998] by Bill McKibben Plume 7¾x5¼ pb [6/99] for $17.00 S&S hardcover [6/98] out of print/many used ISBN 0-684-85281-0 |
"Hundred Dollar Holiday" [1998] ISBN 0-684-85595-X
"Long Distance: Testing The Limits of Body and Spirit In A Year of Living Strenuously" [2001] ISBN 0-452-28270-5
"Enough: Staying Human In An Engineered Age" [2003] ISBN 0-8050-7096-6
 | "Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape" [2005] by Bill McKibben author McKibben takes a three-week walk from his current home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks and reflects on the deep hope he finds in the two landscapes Kindle Edition from St. Martin's Griffin/Macmillan [4/2014] for $9.99 St. Martin's Griffin 8¼x5½ pb [4/2014] for $9.85 Crown Journeys 8x5¼ hardcover [4/2005] for $17.03 |
"The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and The Scale of Creation" [2005] ISBN 1-56101-234-3
 | "Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities & The Durable Future" [2007] by Bill McKibben Kindle Edition from Times Books/Macmillan [2007 edition] for $9.99 Henry Holt & Co. 8x5¼ pb [3/2008] for $8.99 Henry Holt & Co. 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2008] for $13.43 Times Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2007] out of print/used |
 | "Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook For Taking Action In Your Community" [2007] by Bill McKibben
Holt 8x5¼ pb [10/2007] for $10.40 |
 | "The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces From An Active Life" [2008]
44 essays written for various publications over the past 25 years Kindle Edition from St. Martin's Griffin/Macmillan [2008 edition] for $7.99 Henry Holt & Co. 8½x5½ pb [3/2008] for $20.32 |
"American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau" (edited) [2008] ISBN 9781598530209
 | "Eaarth: Making A Life On A Tough New Planet" [2010] by Bill McKibben
McKibben's warnings about global warming went mostly unheeded. We’ve waited too long, and mass-ive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. We can’t rely on old habits any longer. Kindle Edition from Times Books/Macmillan [4/2010] for $9.99 St. Martin's Griffin 8¼x5½ pb [3/2011] for $13.59 Times Books hardcover [4/2010] for $17.67 |
 | "The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change" [2011] Introduced & Edited by Bill McKibben anthology of 35 essays & articles by Al Gore, Jr. (3), James Hansen (Goddard Institute) (2), editor McKibben (2), Svante Arrhenius, Rev. Sally Bingham, Gary Braasch, Adrienne Maree Brown, G.S. Callender, Michael Crichton, Ross Gelbspan, Mark Hertsgaard, James M. Imhofe, Van Jones, Dave Keeling, Naomi Klein, Elizabeth Kolbert, Jeff Masters, George Monbiot, Mohamed Nasheed, Naomi Oreskes, Billy Parish, Arundhati Roy, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Mike Tidwell, John Vidal, and teams David Breashears & E.O. Wheeler, Paul J. Crutzen & Eugene F. Stoermer, I.P.C.C. Working Group, Roger Revelle & Hans E. Seuss, and Peter Schwartz & Doug Randall Kindle Edition from Penguin Books [3/2012] for $15.99 Penguin Books 8¼x5½ pb [3/2012] for $14.40 OR Books 8½x5¾ pb [2011] out of print/used |
"Oil and Honey: The Education of An Unlikely Activist" [Times Books, 2013] ISBN 9780805092844
 | "Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance" first novel [2017] by Bill McKibben from the Epilogue: "When confronted by small men doing big and stupid things, we need to resist with all the creativity and wit [that] we can muster, and if we can do so without losing the civility that makes life enjoyable, then so much the better." Kindle Edition from Blue Rider Press/Penguin Group [11/2017] for $4.99 PUB pb [8/00] for $11.93 Blue Rider Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [11/2017] for $9.00 |
 | "Falter: Has The Human Game Begun To Play Itself Out?" [2019] New York Times bestseller by Bill McKibben Kindle Edition from Henry Holt/Macmillan [4/2019] for $14.99 Holt Paperbacks 8¼x5½ pb [DUE Jan 2020] for $13.09 Henry Holt & Co. 9½x6¼ hardcover [4/2019] for $18.30 |
Other Works
I.P.F.W. Omnibus Lecture Series - "Bill McKibben: The Climate Fight Reaches Its Crucial Stage" [2015]
lecture 5 November 2015 at Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne [est. 1964]
watch full lecture [5/2017 upload; 1:13:51] online at YouTube
Jonathan Schell Memorial Lecture Series - "Bill McKibben On The Fate Of The Earth" [2016]
lecture 10 November 2016 at The New School [est. 1919]
watch full lecture [11/2016 upload; 1:10:37] online at YouTube
Chubb Fellowship Lecture - "Simply Too Hot: The Desperate Science and Politics of Climate" [2017]
lecture 10 October 2017 at Woolsey Hall, Timothy Dwight College, Yale University
watch full 10/2017 event [1:31:13] online at YouTube
"Climate State of The Union" [Jan 2018] hosted by 350.org in Washington, DC
introduction by Sen. Bernie Sanders, emceed by Bill McKibben and Rev. Lennox Yearwood
watch full event [2/2018 upload; 1:41:50] online at YouTube
July 2018 article "Renewable Energy Around the World" by The Sanders Institute
watch 7/2018 companion video/promo [1:58] online at YouTube
Movies & Television, Stageplays, Other Media
 | "The 11th Hour" documentary [Warner Independent Aug 2007] Co-written & co-directed by Nadia Conners & Leila Conners Petersen; co-produced, co-written & hosted by Leonardo DiCaprio; footage includes Mikhail Gorbachev, radio host Thom Hartmann, Stephen Hawking & Bill McKibben Warner Home Video color DVD [4/2008] for $9.99 full credits from IMDb • official movie site • 11th Hour Action community forum site |
 | "The Singularity" documentary feature [studio Nov 2012] The 'singularity' is the moment when we will create computer systems with greater-than-human intelligence, bio-engineer our species, and re-design matter through nanotechnology; these future technologies present an intellectually-thrilling debate that begins with a basic ques-tion: What kind of humans do we want to become? • 76-minute documentary film produced & directed by Doug Wolens; cello score by Chris Lancaster; down-to-earth & visually fun animations created by Jerry van de Beek & Betsy de Fries of Little Fluffy Clouds; feat-uring Ray Kurzweil, Leon Panetta, Richard A. Clarke, Bill McKibben, David Chalmers, Wolfe Singer, Christine Peterson, Christof Koch, Alison Gopnik, Peter Norvig, Ben Goertzel, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Aubrey De Grey, Barney Pell, Ralph Merkle, Brad Templeton, Paul Saffo, Jonas Lamis, Cynthia Breazeal, Marshall Brain, David Friedman, Glenn Zorpette, Peter Voss, Chris Phoenix, Andy Clark, Matt Francis full credits at IMDb • official movie website DVD/Blu-ray not available • Amazon Instant Video [6/2013] HD rental $4.99, HD purchase $19.99 watch official trailer [1:15] online at Vimeo |
 | "Do The Math" [P.F. Pictures April 2013] 45-minute documentary film on fossil fuel phase-out and fossil fuel divestment • Co-produced, written & directed by Kelly Nyks & Jared Scott; featuring Lester Brown, Mike Brune (Sierra Club), Majora Carter, Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Richard Cizik, James Hansen (Goddard Institute), Van Jones, Naomi Klein, Sophie Lasoff, Bill McKibben, Stephen Mulkey, Phil Radford, Juliet Schor, Betsy Taylor, Jessy Tolkan, Cong. Henry Wax-man, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, with archive footage of Robert Kennedy Jr. & Nelson Mandela 350.org color DVD [5/2013] for $9.00 full credits at IMDb • official movie homepage • join the Fossil Free Divestment Movement [est. 2012] watch 4/2013 official trailer [2:00] online at YouTube • watch 4/2013 full movie [44:52] online at YouTube |
 | "Keystone PipeLies Exposed" [indep Feb 2014] "You can make a real difference in the debate over the Keystone XL pipeline, right now. You can help crush the KXL PipeLIES and stop the KXL pipeline" • Exec produced by Lisa Graves (Center for Media and Democracy [est. 1993]); produced, written & directed by Dave Saldana; featured experts and activists include: Kate Colarulli (SierraClub), Eleanor Fairchild, Daryl Hannah, Mara Verhayden Hilliard (Partnership for Civil Justice Fund), Elgie Holstein (Environmental Defense Fund), Hilton KelleyJane Kleeb (Bold Nebraska), Bill McKibben (350.org), Mike Papantonio (Ring of Fire), Tom Shepherd (Southeast Environmental Task Force), Tiernan Sittenfield (League of Conservation Voters), Tyson Slocum (Public Citizen), Lorne Stockman (Oil Change Intl.), Anthony Swift (Natural Resources Defense Council), and Kevin Zeese (ItsOurEconomy.org) DVD/Blu-ray not available • not listed at IMDb • official movie site watch entire film [23:07] online at Vimeo |
Works About Bill McKibben
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Family & Friends
William Ernest McKibben was born on 8 December 1960 in Palo Alto, California; his first book "The End of Nature" was a 1989 bestseller;
he lives in in Ripton, Vermont and teaches at Middlebury College.
wife writer Sue Halpern McKibben
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daughter Sophie McKibben [b. 1993]
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Bill McKibben's credits [since 2004] at Internet Movie Database
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