Bill McKibben

This timely, sobering and inspiring call to arms on our planet's future is the most important book you'll read this year. A powerful call to arms from one of the world's most eminent environmentalists. Thirty years ago, environmentalist Bill McKibben's bestselling The End of Nature—now regarded as a classic—was the first book to alert us to global warming. Now, in...

Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year. “This was the most anomalous year (so far) in human history,” guest editor Bill McKibben writes, “the year in which the relationship between people and planet showed its most dramatic signs yet of unraveling.”...

Our climate and our democracy are melting down, but there’s hope. Bill McKibben, a climate crisis pioneer, sees immense possibility in the rise of solar and wind energy, now the cheapest power source, growing faster than any other. Here Comes the Sun reveals the surge in solar and wind power and the fossil fuel industry’s fight to suppress it. From citizens...

A book about the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic. "We've got a long history of resistance in Vermont and this book is testimony to that fact." -Bernie Sanders As the host of Radio Free Vermont—"underground,...

This issue of Plough Quarterly explores our relationship with the natural world. Hear from leading scientists, farmers, writers, activists, theologians, and artists who have set their hearts, minds, and hands to caring for the earth for generations to come. Bold, hope-filled, and down-to-earth, Plough Quarterly features thought-provoking articles, commentary, interviews, short fiction, book reviews, poetry, and artwork to inspire everyday...