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Bill McKibben

One Big, Shining Beacon for Climate Hope

“Here Comes the Sun” author and activist Bill McKibben on his newfound optimism, harnessing energy from heaven vs. energy from hell and how there are no (good) songs written about fracking.

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

 The sun sets behind wind turbines and rows of solar panels at a renewable energy farm in Qingyang, China. Credit: Chen Kun/VCG via Getty Images
Bill McKibben speaks to the crowd at the Climate Superfund Act rally in front of the New Jersey state house on Monday. Credit: Carrie Klein/Inside Climate News

Bill McKibben on the State-Led Efforts to Make Big Oil Pay Up

By Carrie Klein
Former Washington Gov. Jay Inslee speaks during the nationwide “Hands Off” protest against President Donald Trump at the Seattle Center on April 5. Credit: Mat Hayward/Getty Images for for Community Change Action

Climate Leaders Warn About Potential Trump Action Against Environmental Groups

By Marianne Lavelle
In a new papal exhortation on climate change issued in advance of the upcoming U.N. climate talks in the United Arab Emirates, Pope Francis challenged U.N. negotiators to strengthen the agreement they reached in Paris in 2015, to include “binding forms of energy transition that meet three conditions: that they be efficient, obligatory and readily monitored.” Credit: Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images.

Pope Francis: ‘Irresponsible’ Western Lifestyles Push the World to ‘the Breaking Point’ on Climate

By James Bruggers
Bill McKibben delivers a speech during his Do the Math Tour

The Most Important Climate Paper Few Have Ever Heard Of

By Katherine Bagley
Journalists covering the annual summit of the United Nations Framework Conventio

A Dozen Enviro Reporters Left at Top U.S. Papers

By Katherine Bagley

Spreading Like Wildfire, Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Striking a Moral Chord

By Katherine Bagley
Protesters rally against the Keystone XL pipeline on Nov. 18 in Washington D.C.

Will Carbon Math Force Obama to Reject Keystone XL?

By Jason Plautz
Barack Obama at a campaign stop in Mt. Adams, Ohio

As Debates Loom, a Last Plea to Address Climate Change

By Jason Plautz
Nov. 6 protest at the White House

Activist Leaders Explain Victory over Pipeline

By Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News
Some 10,000 protesters gathered around the White House to protest Keystone XL

Inside the Biggest Pipeline Protest Yet

By Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News

Oil Protesters Face Fading Climate Urgency

By Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News
Bill McKibben

Climate Protesters Target Keystone XL

By Elizabeth McGowan, SolveClimate News

In McKibben's Toolbox, Art Visible from Space

By Elizabeth McGowan

10/10/10 Global Warming "Work Party" on Twitter

by Stacy Feldman

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