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Bill McKibben
History & Commentary
Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist whose work examines global warming and combines climate campaigning with attention to local solutions.
Biography
Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist born in 1960. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar of environmental studies at Middlebury College and a leader of the climate campaign groups 350.org and the Third Act Movement. His writing focuses extensively on global warming. His books include The End of Nature (1989), Falter (2019), and Here Comes the Sun (2025).
McKibben has combined writing with organizing climate campaigns. In 2009, he led 350.org’s organization of simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. In 2011 and 2012, he led campaigning against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, spending three days in jail in Washington, D.C. His honors include the Gandhi Peace Award in 2013 and the Right Livelihood Award in 2014, which recognized his efforts to build public support for action on climate change.
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Books by Bill McKibben
Oil and honey
Oil and Honey (2013) connects McKibben’s campaign against the Keystone XL pipeline and the fossil-fuel industry with a year spent alongside a beekeeper raising a honey crop. It presents large-scale climate organizing and small-scale local food production as mutually reinforcing responses to the climate crisis.