Bill McKibben
Author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
About the Author
Bill McKibben grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. He was president of the Harvard Crimson newspaper in college. Immediately after college he joined the New Yorker magazine as a staff writer, and wrote much of the "Talk of the Town" column from 1982 to early 1987. After quitting this job, he soon show more moved to the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. His first book, The End of Nature, was published in 1989 by Random House after being serialized in the New Yorker. It is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has been printed in more than 20 languages. Several editions have come out in the United States, including an updated version published in 2006. His next book, The Age of Missing Information, was published in 1992. It is an account of an experiment: McKibben collected everything that came across the 100 channels of cable tv on the Fairfax, Virginia system (at the time among the nation's largest) for a single day. He spent a year watching the 2,400 hours of videotape, and then compared it to a day spent on the mountaintop near his home. This book has been widely used in colleges and high schools, and was reissued in 2006. McKibben's latest book is entitled, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. Bill currently resides with his wife, writer Sue Halpern, and his daughter, Sophie in Ripton, Vermont. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. 030 (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Bill McKibben
Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape, Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's… (2005) 193 copies, 8 reviews
The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the… (2022) 104 copies, 7 reviews
Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously (2000) 94 copies, 1 review
Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community (2007) 77 copies, 1 review
Connectedness: An Incomplete Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene (STRANDBERG PUBL) (2020) 9 copies, 1 review
25 Bicycle Tours in the Adirondacks: Road Adventures in the East's Largest Wilderness (1995) 5 copies
IN KATRINA'S WAKE 1 copy
Associated Works
This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century (2016) — Foreword — 277 copies, 5 reviews
The David Suzuki Reader: A Lifetime of Ideas from a Leading Activist and Thinker (2003) — Editor — 109 copies, 2 reviews
I'm With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet (2011) — Introduction — 96 copies, 4 reviews
A Spring without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply (2008) — Foreword, some editions — 87 copies, 6 reviews
Making Peace with the Land: God's Call to Reconcile with Creation (Resources for Reconciliation) (2012) — Foreword — 75 copies, 1 review
Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point (2008) — Introduction, some editions — 48 copies, 1 review
A Faith Encompassing All Creation: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions about Christian Care for the Environment… (2014) — Foreword — 12 copies
A Passion for This Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Explore Our Relationship With Nature and the Environment (2008) — Foreword, some editions — 11 copies
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- Canonical name
- McKibben, Bill
- Legal name
- McKibben, William Ernest
- Other names
- MCKIBBEN, William Ernest
MCKIBBEN, Bill - Birthdate
- 1960-12-08
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Palo Alto, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Adirondack Mountains, New York, USA
Ripton, Vermont, USA
Lexington, Massachusetts, USA - Education
- Harvard University (BA|1982)
- Occupations
- writer
environmentalist - Relationships
- Sue Halpern (wife)
- Organizations
- The New Yorker
Harvard Crimson (president)
350.org (founder)
Middlebury College (scholar in residence)
Post Carbon Institute (fellow)
Middlebury Fellowships in Environmental Journalism (director) (show all 7)
Third Act (co-founder) - Awards and honors
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1993)
Lannan Literary Award (2000)
Gandhi Peace Award (2013)
Right Livelihood Prize (2014)
Lyndhurst Fellowship
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Reviews
An excellent collection of authors ranging from Henry David Thoreau to R. Crumb, each commenting on the howling (and reduced) landscape of the American Earth.
Foreword by Al Gore.
Very well Illustrated, with examples from A.B Durand, Ansel Adams, Vint Lawrence, Crumb & many other photo documents.
I am very fond of this book and recommend it to anyone interested in a condensed yet thorough survey of environmental writng.
Foreword by Al Gore.
Very well Illustrated, with examples from A.B Durand, Ansel Adams, Vint Lawrence, Crumb & many other photo documents.
I am very fond of this book and recommend it to anyone interested in a condensed yet thorough survey of environmental writng.
McKibben compares the content of one day's television from 93 stations available in Fairfax, Virginia, to spending a day hiking and observing the animals and plants.
It was about my time and where has it gone.
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Statistics
- Works
- 45
- Also by
- 24
- Members
- 6,026
- Popularity
- #4,087
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 154
- ISBNs
- 140
- Languages
- 10
- Favorited
- 20
(I'll check if the author has anything newer that interests me, and I'll also check TED talks etc.)