Bill McKibben
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McKibben asks Occupy Wall Streeters to join Keystone pipeline protest [VIDEO]
Climate activist Bill McKibben brought his anti-Keystone-pipeline message to a big Occupy Wall Street crowd gathered in Washington Square in New York City.
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Can we make nature even better?
A new book reexamines traditional views of wilderness, asserting that human influence over nature is undeniable.
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Keystone-pipeline protestors link their movement to Occupy Wall Street
In keeping with the Occupy Wall Street movement, activists in Washington, D.C., on Friday protested the Keystone XL pipeline outside the State Department.
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Greens join Occupy Wall Street, protest against everything being super screwed up
In all of the navel-gazing that climate activists conduct in order to figure out why the world is on the highway to carbon hell, one thing that's easy to forget is what we're up against: Gigantic, tremendously wealthy entrenched interests whose only goal is to maintain the status quo right up until the Once-ler burns the last of our fossil fuels. In other words, corporations.
Corporations fund the climate denial machine, lobby for subsidies to keep themselves viable long after the social and environmental costs of their ways have become egregious, and at the slightest provocation, sic their anointed party on any alternative energy that should threaten their unsustainable model.
That's why it should be no surprise that a movement aimed, at least vaguely, at reducing the power of corporations should be appealing to anyone who cares about the future of life on earth.
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Climate activism stands with Occupy Wall Street Movement
Riding on the momentum created by the Keystone XL pipeline protests, climate movement leaders are getting involved in the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
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Stopping bad things and starting good ones
On Moving Planet Day, Sept. 24, people around the world will get on bikes, skateboards, and their own two feet to put fossil fuels in the rearview mirror.
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Bill McKibben talks to Grist amidst ‘chaotic and beautiful’ Tar Sands Action [VIDEO]
Bill McKibben shares his excitement on the last day of tar-sands-pipeline protests in front of the White House.
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Obama secretly saves world while environmentalists protest
While Bill McKibben and Daryl Hannah were getting hauled away in handcuffs in protest of the Obama administration’s decision to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, that same administration was quietly fixing the problem. I don’t have an informed opinion about the pipeline, except that it’s clearly a symptom of our addiction to fossil energy and […]
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The Tar Sands Action (smile)
My mind has been a jumble the last couple of days as I’ve tried to think about what I would be saying in this column. I knew I would be writing about the historic and amazing Tar Sands Action in Washington, D.C. I am literally smiling as I embark on this writing journey. […]