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Bill McKibben

Bylines

Jimmy Carter, Green-Energy Visionary

As President, he told us that we needed to shift to solar power. We should have listened to him then.

by Bill McKibben via The New Yorker on December 29, 2024
The Second (and Third) Battle of Lexington

What kind of place was the town I grew up in?

by Bill McKibben via The New Yorker on May 1, 2022
Why Do We Eat Bad Food?

Mark Bittman’s new history looks at the economy and politics of junk food.

by Bill McKibben via The Nation on May 18, 2021
Endless Combustion

Three new books examine how the rise of coal, oil, and gas have permanently remade our world.

by Bill McKibben via The Nation on February 6, 2019
Coming to Terms With Nature

Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters in the ’60s.

by Bill McKibben via The Nation on May 9, 2018

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President Obama wipes the sweat from his forehead at a press conference.

We Now Know the Full Extent of Obama’s Disastrous Apathy Toward the Climate Crisis

Obama’s official oral history contains new evidence of his indifference and foot-dragging on the most important issue of our time.

by Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on June 5, 2023

Devils roasting the earth on a spit.

From Saving the Earth to Ruling the World

The transformation of the environmental movement.

by Christopher Caldwell via Claremont Review of Books on November 1, 2019

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