Books written by Bill McKibben
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Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape
Bill McKibben begins his journey atop Vermont's Mt. Abraham, with a stunning view to the west that introduces us to the broad Champlain Valley of Vermont, the expanse of Lake Champlain, and behind it the towering wall of the Adirondacks.
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Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance
"I hope no one secedes, but I also hope that Americans figure out creative ways to resist injustice and create communities where everybody counts. We've got a long history of resistance in Vermont and this book is testimony to that fact.
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Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
13. John Fiske, The Critical Period of American History (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1888), p. 146. 14. Ibid., p. 105. 15. Peter Onuf, The Origins of the Federal Republic (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983), p. 182.
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Hamish Fulton: Walking Journey
His walks have taken him to locations as varied as Japan, the Himalayas, Italy, India, Iceland, and the deserts of Montana, as well as throughout England.This volume, published to accompany an exhibition at Tate Britain in Spring 2002 of ...
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Maybe One: A Personal and Evironmental Argument for Single Child Families
"Climate Change: Greenpeace Pushes the End of Fossil Fuel,” Greenwire, May 22, 1997. Kerry Lund, letter to the editor, E Magazine, July-August 1997, p. 4. Barbara Bonsignore, letter to the editor, E Magazine, November—December 1997.
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
McKibben offers a realistic, if challenging, scenario for a hopeful future. Deep Economy makes the compelling case that the more we nurture the essential humanity of our economy, the more we will recapture our own.
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Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community
Bill McKibben, the author of the first major book on global warming, The End of Nature, warns that it's no longer time to debate global warming, it's time to fight it.
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Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously
Palmer was a true sports punk, hyperactive, substance-abusing . . . and derisive toward the dignity of sports in general.” He didn't come from a Church of Christ family; his father left when he was a few months old, and he was raised ...
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Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously
Told with his trademark intelligence, humor, and honesty, Long Distance is an insightful examination of the culture and mind-set of endurance athletes, and a moving and inspiring meditation on finding balance in our often harried lives.
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control.
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Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist
It will simply put this new power to work on its singleminded goal of amassing wealth, just as, the Koch brothers did, sublimely unconcerned that their tar sands investments were threatening the planet. In other words, if your goal is ...
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Humanicide ou la fin d'un règne - Quand l'avenir de l'homme a-t-il basculé ?
Bill McKibben est un auteur, journaliste et militant écologiste qui a reçu en 2014 le Right Livelihood Prize, parfois appelé le " Nobel alternatif ".
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The Return of the Wolf: Reflections on the Future of Wolves in the Northeast
Roy , M. S. , E. Geffen , D. Smith , E. A. Ostrander , and R. K. Wayne . 1994. “ Patterns of Differentiation and Hybridization in North American Wolf - like Canids . Molecular Biological Evolution 11 : 553-70 .
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The Most Radical Thing You Can Do
The best political essays from Orion Magazine
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In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster
Donald E. Powell, the President's Gulf Coast rebuilding coordinator, spent weeks walking around New Orleans incognito, dressed in blue jeans and boots; he talked to the woman who cleaned his room at the Sheraton, questioned a restaurant ...
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Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
Barbara Katz Rothman , Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations ( New York : 1998 ) , p . 37 . 87. Saletan , “ Ethicist's New Clothes . ” 88. Paulina Borsook , Cyberselfish ( New York : 2000 ) , pp . 35 , 32 , 16 . 89.
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The Age of Missing Information
As relevant now as it was when originally written in 1992–and with new material from the author on the impact of the Internet age–this witty and astute book is certain to change the way you look at television and perceive media as a ...
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The Waste Makers
Reveals the tactics used by businesses to create consumer needs and desires for products that waste resources and finances in addition to undermining human values and independence.
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The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation
In The Comforting Whirlwind, acclaimed environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben turns to the biblical book of Job and its awesome depiction of creation to demonstrate our need to embrace a bold new paradigm for living if we hope to reverse ...
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Essentials of Environmental Science + Earth (Collegiate Edition)
Essentials of Environmental Science + Earth (Collegiate Edition)