Articles by Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, and a founder of 350.org. He is a member of Grist’s board of directors.
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McKibben to critics: Forget NIMBY — the new battle cry is ‘Not On Our Planet’
My very favorite piece of punditry about the Keystone XL pipeline appeared the day after President Obama sent it back for more review, perhaps killing it off altogether. It came from the pen of a senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations named Michael Levi, who had spent the last few months endlessly opining […]
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We won a temporary victory on Keystone XL, but the fight goes on
Dear Friends, Um, we won. You won. Not completely. The president didn’t outright reject the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. My particular fantasy — that he would invite the 1,253 people arrested on his doorstep in August inside the gates for a victory picnic by the vegetable garden — didn’t materialize. But today the […]
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Keystone pipeline's last defense: Cold, hard cash
With all the facts against them, proponents of the climate-decimating tar-sands pipeline are playing their final hand: big piles of money.
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Where did Obama's mojo go?
Obama's fund-raising emails sound a little pathetic. Nixing the Keystone XL pipeline could be his last chance to prove himself to progressive voters.
