Bill McKibben

An American environmentalist and writer, Bill McKibben is the founder of 350.org, an international climate campaign. He is also an activist. Beginning in the summer of 2006, he led the organization of the largest demonstrations against global warming in American history. Bill frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. McKibben is active in the Methodist Church, and his writing sometimes has a spiritual bent.

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. He followed that with many more books covering a variety of topics. In March 2007 he published Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. It addresses what the author sees as shortcomings of the growth economy and envisions a transition to more local-scale enterprise. Bill is also a frequent contributor to various magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Rolling Stone, Outside, and more.

Bill currently resides with his wife, writer Sue Halpern, and his daughter, Sophie, who was born in 1993, in Ripton, Vermont. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College.