You, here, now —Bill McKibben @ Power Shift
A great honor and a terrible burden. I think he meant not only the people in front of him but also everyone willing to do something. As for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: We cannot stop money but we...
View ArticleHow to stop climate change: divest from fossil fuel companies
In response to a very downbeat diatribe by Bill McKibben in Rolling Stone on the occasion of the U.N.’s Rio+20 conference being some sound and less fury accomplishing not much about stopping climate...
View ArticleA grid with a million solar rooftops
Bill McKibben wrote for Rolling Stone 11 April 2013, The Fossil Fuel Resistance, A grid with a million solar rooftops feels more like the Internet than ConEd; it’s a farmers market in electrons, with...
View ArticleNuclear power like burning $20 bills to generate electricity –Bill McKibben
Nukes cost too much and are too centralized; sun and wind are the power we need and can afford. Andrew Sullivan on the Dish 8 December 2012, Ask McKibben Anything: What About Nuclear Energy? In...
View ArticleMLK and pipeline opposition
The fossil fuel opposition is the child and grandchild of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. With their nonviolence, truth, and action as a model, we shall overcome. Bill McKibben, The...
View ArticleFederal court rules fossil fuels violate constitutional rights 2016-04-08
Our Children’s Trust, Press Release, 9 April 2016, Judge Denies Motions by Fossil Fuel Industry and Federal Government in Landmark Climate Change Case, Today, U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin of...
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