Bill McKibben
Bill Mckibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
From the Review
June 11, 2009: Can Obama Change the Climate?
The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity by Nicholas Stern
November 6, 2008: Green Fantasia
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
February 14, 2008: The Biggest Menace? (letter)
January 17, 2008: Taking the Gospels Seriously
The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus: What's So Good About the Good News? by Peter J. Gomes
unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity...and Why It Matters by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons
December 20, 2007: Will Slower Population Growth Stop Global Warming?
October 11, 2007: Can Anyone Stop It?
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming by Bjørn Lomborg
Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren edited by Joseph F.C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman
What We Know About Climate Change by Kerry Emanuel
March 15, 2007: Warning on Warming
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis: Summary for Policymakers
December 21, 2006: How Close to Catastrophe? (letter)
November 16, 2006: How Close to Catastrophe?
The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate in Crisis and the Fate of Humanity by James Lovelock
China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development by Kelly Sims Gallagher
Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry by Travis Bradford
Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises edited by Architecture for Humanity
WorldChanging:A User's Guide for the 21st Century edited by Alex Steffen
April 27, 2006: The Hope of the Web
Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics by Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, with a foreword by Simon Rosenberg
March 23, 2006: 'The Coming Meltdown' (letter)
January 12, 2006: The Coming Meltdown
Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains by Mark Bowen
Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World's Environmental Hotspots by Alanna Mitchell
September 23, 2004: The Red Line (letter)
June 10, 2004: Crossing the Red Line
Imagining the Unthinkable: An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security a report by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall
Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress by Carl Pope and Paul Rauber
Bush Versus the Environment by Robert S. Devine
The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate by Joseph J. Romm
Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis—and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster by Ross Gelbspan
Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Change edited by Jim Motavalli
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World by Paul Roberts
Power to the People: How the Coming Energy Revolution Will Transform an Industry, Change Our Lives, and Maybe Even Save the Planet by Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription by Ross Gelbspan
Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment by James Gustave Speth
September 25, 2003: Our Thirsty Future
Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst by Diane Raines Ward
Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters by Robert Glennon
Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stressand a Civilization in Trouble by Lester R. Brown
September 26, 2002: The Hiker's Gospel
The Complete Walker IV by Colin Fletcher and Chip Rawlins
November 15, 2001: Nuclear Power: An Exchange
July 5, 2001: Some Like It Hot
Climate Change 2001:Third Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
National Energy Policy: Report of the National Energy Policy Development Group Dick Cheney, Colin L. Powell, Paul O'Neill, Gale Norton (Secretary of the Interior), Ann M. Veneman (Secretary of Agriculture), Donald L. Evans (Secretary of Commerce), Norman Y. Mineta (Secretary of Transportation), Spencer Abraham (Secretary of Energy),
May 25, 2000: Acquaintance of the Earth
Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists: A Conservative Manifesto by Peter Huber
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, by Amory Lovins, by L. Hunter Lovins
August 12, 1999: Nature Without People?
Requiem for Nature by John Terborgh
The Condor's Shadow: The Loss and Recovery of Wildlife in America by David S. Wilcove
Continental Conservation: Scientific Foundations of Regional Reserve Networks edited by Michael E. Soulé, by John Terborgh
February 5, 1998: Call of the Wild
The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness by Paul Schneider
Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks by Philip G. Terrie
June 26, 1997: The Fifth Horseman (letter)
May 29, 1997: Reaching the Limit
How Many People Can the Earth Support? by Joel E. Cohen
The Carrying Capacity Briefing Book by the Carrying Capacity Network
November 28, 1996: Easy Rider
The Car that Could: The Inside Story of GM's Revolutionary Electric Vehicle by Michael Shnayerson
Taking Charge: The Electric Automobile in America by Michael Brian Schiffer
July 11, 1996: Some Versions of Pastoral
Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture by Craig Canine
Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea by Victor Davis Hanson
Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry
The Stork and the Plow: The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma by Paul R. Ehrlich, by Anne H. Ehrlich, by Gretchen C. Daily
May 14, 1992: The Call of the Not So Wild
April 11, 1991: The Mountain Hedonist
The Practice of the Wild
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
Myths and Texts
Turtle Island
Axe Handles
Earth House Hold
The Old Ways
He Who Hunted Birds in His Father's Village: The Dimensions of a Haida Myth
The Real Work: Interviews and Talks edited by Scott McLean
Passage Through India
June 14, 1990: Prophet in Kentucky
What Are People For?
Collected Poems, 1957–1982
The Hidden Wound
Meeting the Expectations of the Land: Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship edited by Wendell Berry, edited by Wes Jackson, edited by Bruce Colman
Standing By Words
The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural
Home Economics
A Continuous Harmony
Recollected Essays, 1965–1980
Remembering
A Place on Earth: Revision
November 9, 1989: Hero of the Wilderness
December 8, 1988: Is the World Getting Hotter?
The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States: Draft Report to Congress Printing Office in two volumes edited by Joel B. Smith, edited by Dennis A. Tirpak
State of the World 1988: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society by Lester R. Brown, by William U. Chandler, by Alan Durning, by Christopher Flavin, by Lori Heise, by Jodi Jacobson, by Sandra Postel, by Cynthia Pollock Shea, by Linda Starke, by Edward C. Wolf
A Matter of Degrees: The Potential for Controlling the Greenhouse Effect by Irving M. Mintzer
The End by Larry Ephron
November 10, 1988: Beyond Ecology (letter)
August 18, 1988: The Desert Anarchist
The Best of Edward Abbey edited by Edward Abbey
One Life at a Time, Please by Edward Abbey
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
Down the River by Edward Abbey
Beyond the Wall by Edward Abbey
From New York Review Books
 | They Burn the Thistles The great Turkish writer Yashar Kemal's tales of conflict and adventure set in the Taurus Mountains of southeastern Turkey fuse ancient local traditions of oral storytelling with the social and psychological awareness of the nineteenth-century novel. |
 | Welcome to Doomsday Welcome to Doomsday is an investigation into the coupling of ideology and theology, in particular the intrusion of religion into political life, in America today. |
Books by Bill McKibben
Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (2003)
Hamish Fulton: Walking Journey (2002)
Long Distance: A Year of Living Strenuously (2000)
The End of Nature (1999)
Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case for a More Joyful Christmas (1998)
Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single-Child Families (1998)
Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (1995)
The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation (1994)
The Age of Missing Information (1992)