Bill McKibben: Author. Educator. Environmentalist.

Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. Beginning in the summer of 2006, he led the organization of the largest demonstrations against global warming in American history.

His first book, The End of Nature, was published in 1989. It is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has been printed in more than 20 languages.

In 2007 McKibben published Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. Bill McKibben urges us to see beyond “growth” and “more” as our primary economic ideals and to pursue prosperity in a more local direction, with cities, suburbs and regions producing more of their own food, generating more of their own energy and even creating more of their own culture and entertainment. We need to think about “deep economy” that takes human satisfaction and societal durability more seriously.

Bill’s other books include The Age of Missing Information, Enough:Staying Human in an Engineered Age and The Bill McKibben Reader. Bill is a frequent contributor to various magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. He is also a board member and contributor to Grist Magazine.

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