Bill McKibben
Environmentalist, author and journalist
Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who founded the climate group 350.org. He has written about global warming since his first book, The End of Nature.
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American Born 1960 in Palo Alto, United States
About Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is an American writer, journalist and environmentalist, known for his long body of work on global warming. He founded 350.org and Step It Up, is a leader of the Third Act Movement, and is a scholar of environmental studies at Middlebury College in Vermont. His first book, The End of Nature, appeared in 1989 and dealt with climate change. His later books include Deep Economy, Eaarth and Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? (2019). As an organizer, he led 350.org's 2009 effort of 5,200 simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. In 2011 and 2012 he led the campaign against the Keystone XL pipeline. He received the Gandhi Peace Award in 2013 and the Right Livelihood Award in 2014. He makes his home in Vermont with his daughter and his wife, the writer Sue Halpern.