Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and leader of the climate campaign group 350.
17 Facts About Bill McKibben
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Bill McKibben was awarded the Gandhi Peace Award in 2013.
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In 1987, Bill McKibben quit The New Yorker after longtime editor William Shawn was forced out of his job.
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Bill McKibben began his freelance writing career at about the same time that climate change appeared on the public agenda following the hot summer and fires of 1988 and testimony by James Hansen before the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources in June of that year.
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Bill McKibben became and remains a frequent contributor to various publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Harper's, Orion, Mother Jones, The American Prospect, The New York Review of Books, Granta, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Adbusters, and Outside.
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Bill McKibben is a board member at and contributor to Grist.
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Bill McKibben spent a year watching the 2,400 hours of programming, and then compared it to a day spent on the mountaintop near his home.
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Bill McKibben's book Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, published in March 2007, was a national bestseller.
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Some of Bill McKibben's work has been extremely popular; an article in Rolling Stone in July 2012 received over 125,000 likes on Facebook, 14,000 tweets, and 5,000 comments.
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Bill McKibben is one of the environmentalists against the proposed Canadian-US Keystone XL pipeline project.
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On Sunday, July 5,2015, Bill McKibben led a similar climate march in Toronto, Ontario, with the support of various celebrities.
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Bill McKibben has been mentioned as a potential future Cabinet member should Sanders win the presidency.
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In 2020, Bill McKibben delivered a keynote at 2020 Vision: Finding Hope in Climate Action.
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In 2016, Bill McKibben wrote in The New York Times that he is "under surveillance" by "right-wing stalkers" who photograph, pursue, and inquire about him and members of his family in search of ostensible instances of environmental hypocrisy.
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In December 2019, along with 42 other leading cultural figures, Bill McKibben signed a letter endorsing the British Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership in the 2019 general election.
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Bill McKibben is a Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, where he directs the Middlebury Fellowships in Environmental Journalism.
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Since 2013, Bill McKibben has been listed on the Advisory Council of the National Center for Science Education.