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Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben

Born: 1960-12-08 • Palo Alto, California, USA

William Ernest McKibben (born December 8, 1960) is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar of environmental studies at Middlebury College and leader of the climate campaign groups 350.org and the Third Act Movement. He has authored a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature (1989), about climate change, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? (2019), and Here Comes the Sun (2025) about the state of the environmental challenges facing humanity and future prospects.

In 2009, he led 350.org's organization of 5,200 simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. In 2010, McKibben and 350.org conceived the 10/10/10 Global Work Party, which convened more than 7,000 events in 188 countries, as he had told a large gathering at Warren Wilson College shortly before the event. In December 2010, 350.org coordinated a planet-scale art project, with many of the 20 works visible from satellites. In 2011 and 2012 he led the environmental campaign against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project and spent three days in jail in Washington, D.C. Two weeks later he was inducted into the literature section of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He was awarded the Gandhi Peace Award in 2013. Foreign Policy magazine named him to its inaugural list of the 100 most important global thinkers in 2009 and MSN named him one of the dozen most influential men of 2009. In 2010, The Boston Globe called him "probably the nation's leading environmentalist" and Time magazine book reviewer Bryan Walsh described him as "the world's best green journalist". In 2014, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "mobilizing growing popular support in the USA and around the world for strong action to counter the threat of global climate change." In 2019, Aidan Smith, writing for Current Affairs, mentioned McKibben as a possible future Secretary of the Interior or Secretary of Energy in the cabinet of a hypothetical future progressive President.

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Filmography
Valve Turners poster
Valve Turners
2024
Generation Green New Deal poster
Generation Green New Deal
2020 • Self
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky poster
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018 • Self
How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change poster
How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change
2016 • Self
A Small Good Thing poster
A Small Good Thing
2015
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Do the Math
2013 • Self
The Wisdom to Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism & Community poster
The Wisdom to Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism & Community
2013 • Self
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The Future of Energy: Lateral Power to the People
2013
The Singularity poster
The Singularity
2012 • Himself
Koch Brothers Exposed poster
Koch Brothers Exposed
2012 • Self
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The Adirondacks
2008 • Himself
Everything's Cool poster
Everything's Cool
2007 • Self
Out of Balance: ExxonMobil's Impact on Climate Change poster
Out of Balance: ExxonMobil's Impact on Climate Change
2006 • Self (Author)
Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul poster
Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul
— • Self