Tag: Bill Mckibben
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Bill McKibben on Climate: "You need to do more than change light bulbs. You need to change the system."
Bill McKibben has a new piece in Rolling Stone about the growing momentum of The Fossil Fuel Resistance movement
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Coal company kicks 10,000 workers off health care
Missouri coal miners have a new ally in environmentalist and climate activist, Bill McKibben. Writing at Bloomberg, McKibben highlights an infuriating example of corporate socialism.
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How can civil disobedience best help the climate?
With a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline looming, it's a good time to think about how best to respond to the decision and what forms of civil disobedience will best highlight climate change as a moral issue.
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Meet Bill McKibben, the man behind the climate movement
Bloomberg Businessweek has a nice profile of 350.org founder and climate activist, Bill McKibben.
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Why fossil fuel divestment is key to climate progress
Bill McKibben has a must-read post at Rolling Stone explaining the strategic logic of pressuring universities to divest from the fossil fuel industry
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350.org, Josh Fox and Friends Announce Don't Frack OH Action
There are many reasons to stop fracking in Ohio, but let me unpack two: fracking is causing earthquakes across the country and natural gas is a potential climate killer.
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TreeHugger Live Chat Today at 3pm EDT.
A few of us are going to chat about this year's Person of the Year nominees and whatever else happens to come up. Join us!
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Adrian Grenier, Bill McKibben, Fisker and More Get Global Green Awards
Sustainable design awards to pay tribute to innovators
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Bill McKibben Links Climate Change to Corruption in Stirring Occupy Wall Street Speech (Video)
The climate activism community is now firmly in the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) fight. 350.org joined in the tens of thousands on the streets of New York last week; and now environmental activist Bill McKibben has starkly laid out the links between
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Bill McKibben Versus The Terrifying Tar Sands (Podcast)
When renowned NASA climatologist James Hansen came on the podcast recently, he said some chilling words: if we burn the oil in the Canadian tar sands "it's essentially game over for the climate." The murky oil sands of Canada are the largest known
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Putting the Lessons From 40 Years of Environmentalism to Use
Not for forty years has there been such a stretch of bad news for environmentalists in Washington. Last month in
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Stand With 350.org & Sign 'The US Chamber of Commerce Doesn't Speak For Me'!
Yesterday Bill McKibben wondered is money to most virulent source of pollution? When it comes to big polluters and the influencing US politics, yes, yes it is... And the US Chamber of Commerce is right near the top of the list. In an effort to really
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Jared Duval on Open Source Democracy (Podcast)
Can government be like a smartphone? An open platform, waiting for citizens to plug in their "apps" to its operating system? The rise of the millennial generation, along with the spread of the open source software movement, has opened up a whole new
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There's No Longer A Happy Ending Where We Prevent Climate Change Anymore: Bill McKibben (Video)
Down in Mexico at the COP16 climate conference, Andy Revkin of the New York Times just posted a video interview he did with environmental campaigner and thinker extraordinare Bill McKibben, which is really worth a view. McKibben is perhaps slightly
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Nine Days to Go Until 350.org's Work Party on 10/10/10 - Here's Ten Top Events To Inspire Action
With just nine days left until 350.org's
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Will President Obama Put Free Solar Panels on the White House Roof?
You'd put solar panels on your roof if they were free, but will President Obama. "It's complicated," the White House responded when Bill McKibben and 350.org asked if they'd install the panels Sungevity agreed to donate. To hopefully tip the balance,
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McKibben On Tour, Stops By New York to Inspire Letterman (Video)
Big props to David Letterman for bringing on Bill McKibben earlier this week to talk to Letterman's 4 million nightly viewers about global climate change and Bill's 350.org project. 350.org has a savvy campaign to get the White House
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Join 350 EARTH: A Global Satellite Art Project
We need help from artists—we need them to help with an artwork bigger than humans have ever built before, the first global-scale group show. It's going to be slightly wild, and very beautiful.
