Skip To Main Content
Bill McKibben on Muck Rack

Bill McKibben

Verified
Vermont
As seen in: 350.org, Substack, The Crucial Years, The New Yorker, CNN, Medium, MSN, MSN UK, The New York Times, Financial Times, HuffPost, The Guardian, The Independent (UK), The Washington Post and
Author, Educator, Environmentalist and founder of 350.org and ThirdAct.org. Opinions all my own, and expressed at greater length at billmckibben.substack.com
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Bill

Contact Bill, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

Our last, best chance to cool the Earth

|
By Bill McKibben Verified
| TED Talks Art
We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has plunged, making it cheaper than ever to power the world without burning fossil fuels. He breaks down how energy from the sun became the best option on Earth — and why this narrow window of time may be our last real shot at a different future. "Energy from heaven, not from hell," he says.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Trump’s…energy policy, and what it’s going to cost us all

|
By Bill McKibben Verified
| Countercurrents
A 19th century cartoon documenting the downsides of gluttony We talk regularly about Big Oil, but it would probably make more sense to at least occasionally refer to it as Big Gas—many of the same players are involved, of course, and the two are often found in the same places, but it’s been clear for some time that oil is not a growth industry.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (2) Issue with article?

It's Time to Make Gas a Dirty Word

|
By Bill McKibben Verified
| Common Dreams Verified
We talk regularly about Big Oil, but it would probably make more sense to at least occasionally refer to it as Big Gas—many of the same players are involved, of course, and the two are often found in the same places, but it’s been clear for some time that oil is not a growth industry. The rapid rise of electric vehicles in most of the world undercuts projections of future use—we’re at or near the top of the plateau now, and by 2030 or so the amount of oil we use should be going down.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 2,548 licensed articles (2,803 Total)