Bill McKibben is scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of The End of Nature, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future and Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. He is also the founder of 350.org, the global climate campaign that has been actively involved in the fight against natural gas fracking.
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The Ultimate Corporation
June 7, 2012
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
by Steve Coll
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Why Frack?
April 26, 2012
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‘Why Not Frack?’
March 22, 2012
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Why Not Frack?
March 8, 2012
The End of Country
by Seamus McGraw
Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale
by Tom Wilber
Gasland a documentary film by Josh Fox
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The Eco Elephant
May 12, 2011
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Resisting Climate Reality
April 7, 2011
Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits
edited by Bjørn Lomborg
Cool It a film directed by Ondi Timoner
Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
by Mark Hertsgaard
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All Programs Considered
November 11, 2010
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Heavy Weather in Copenhagen
March 11, 2010
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In the Face of Catastrophe: A Surprise
November 5, 2009
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
by Rebecca Solnit
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Can Obama Change the Climate?
June 11, 2009
The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity
by Nicholas Stern
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Green Fantasia
November 6, 2008
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America
by Thomas L. Friedman
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The Biggest Menace?
February 14, 2008
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Taking the Gospels Seriously
January 17, 2008
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
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Will Slower Population Growth Stop Global Warming?
December 20, 2007
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Can Anyone Stop It?
October 11, 2007
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
What We Know About Climate Change
by Kerry Emanuel
Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren
edited by Joseph F.C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman
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Warning on Warming
March 15, 2007
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis: Summary for Policymakers
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How Close to Catastrophe?
December 21, 2006
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How Close to Catastrophe?
November 16, 2006
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
WorldChanging:A User’s Guide for the 21st Century
edited by Alex Steffen
Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises
edited by Architecture for Humanity
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The Hope of the Web
April 27, 2006
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
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‘The Coming Meltdown’
March 23, 2006
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The Coming Meltdown
January 12, 2006
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
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The Red Line
September 23, 2004
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Crossing the Red Line
June 10, 2004
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
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 Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate
by Joseph J. Romm
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
by Paul Roberts
Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Change
edited by Jim Motavalli
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
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
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Our Thirsty Future
September 25, 2003
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
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The Hiker’s Gospel
September 26, 2002
The Complete Walker IV
by Colin Fletcher and Chip Rawlins
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Nuclear Power: An Exchange
November 15, 2001
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Some Like It Hot
July 5, 2001
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),
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Acquaintance of the Earth
May 25, 2000
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
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Nature Without People?
August 12, 1999
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
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Call of the Wild
February 5, 1998
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
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The Fifth Horseman
June 26, 1997
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Reaching the Limit
May 29, 1997
How Many People Can the Earth Support? by Joel E. Cohen
The Carrying Capacity Briefing Book by the Carrying Capacity Network
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Easy Rider
November 28, 1996
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
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Some Versions of Pastoral
July 11, 1996
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
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The Call of the Not So Wild
May 14, 1992
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The Mountain Hedonist
April 11, 1991
The Practice of the Wild
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
Myths and Texts
Turtle Island
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
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Prophet in Kentucky
June 14, 1990
What Are People For?
Collected Poems, 19571982
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
Remembering
A Place on Earth: Revision
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Hero of the Wilderness
November 9, 1989
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Is the World Getting Hotter?
December 8, 1988
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
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Beyond Ecology
November 10, 1988
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The Desert Anarchist
August 18, 1988
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
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Embattled Public Radio
March 18, 2011
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Our Diminished Oceans
August 6, 2010