Bill McKibben
Forfatter af Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Om forfatteren
Bill McKibben grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. He was president of the Harvard Crimson newspaper in college. Immediately after college he joined the New Yorker magazine as a staff writer, and wrote much of the "Talk of the Town" column from 1982 to early 1987. After quitting this job, he soon vis mere moved to the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. 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, and has been printed in more than 20 languages. Several editions have come out in the United States, including an updated version published in 2006. His next book, The Age of Missing Information, was published in 1992. It is an account of an experiment: McKibben collected everything that came across the 100 channels of cable tv on the Fairfax, Virginia system (at the time among the nation's largest) for a single day. He spent a year watching the 2,400 hours of videotape, and then compared it to a day spent on the mountaintop near his home. This book has been widely used in colleges and high schools, and was reissued in 2006. McKibben's latest book is entitled, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. Bill currently resides with his wife, writer Sue Halpern, and his daughter, Sophie in Ripton, Vermont. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. 030 (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Bill McKibben
Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape, Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's… (2005) 183 eksemplarer
Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously (2000) 90 eksemplarer
The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the… (2022) 80 eksemplarer
Connectedness: An Incomplete Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene (STRANDBERG PUBL) (2020) 7 eksemplarer
25 Bicycle Tours in the Adirondacks: Road Adventures in the East's Largest Wilderness (1995) 6 eksemplarer
One Hundred Dollar Holiday 1 eksemplar
How Public Opinion Changes for the Better 1 eksemplar
The Most Important Number in the World 1 eksemplar
Eaarth (10) by McKibben, Bill [Hardcover (2010)] 1 eksemplar
Christmas Unplugged 1 eksemplar
What is True Development? The Kerala Model 1 eksemplar
IN KATRINA'S WAKE 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century (2016) — Forord — 244 eksemplarer
A Spring without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply (2008) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 83 eksemplarer
Making Peace with the Land: God's Call to Reconcile with Creation (Resources for Reconciliation) (2012) — Forord — 69 eksemplarer
Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point (2008) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 46 eksemplarer
A Faith Encompassing All Creation: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions about Christian Care for the Environment… (2014) — Forord — 12 eksemplarer
A Passion for This Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Explore Our Relationship With Nature and the Environment (2008) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 11 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- McKibben, Bill
- Juridisk navn
- McKibben, William Ernest
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MCKIBBEN, Bill - Fødselsdato
- 1960-12-08
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Palo Alto, California, USA
- Bopæl
- Adirondack Mountains, New York, USA
Ripton, Vermont, USA
Lexington, Massachusetts, USA - Uddannelse
- Harvard University (BA|1982)
- Erhverv
- writer
environmentalist - Relationer
- Sue Halpern (wife)
- Organisationer
- The New Yorker
Harvard Crimson (president)
350.org (founder)
Middlebury College (scholar in residence)
Post Carbon Institute (fellow)
Middlebury Fellowships in Environmental Journalism (director) (vis alle 7)
Third Act (co-founder) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1993)
Lannan Literary Award (2000)
Gandhi Peace Award (2013)
Right Livelihood Prize (2014)
Lyndhurst Fellowship
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The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale… af Bill McKibben
God, Job & Scale of Creation
McKibben lays out the causes of climate change and explores the possibilities of what it means for the future, and the present.
He doesn't offer many answers, as he recognizes that it's impossible to know exactly what will happen. He does, however, make the case that it's already too late, we've already changed the atmosphere and everywhere on Earth is now touched by humankind.
This is what he means by "end of Nature," our idea of Nature as that which is unspoiled by humanity is forever gone. We've changed the atmosphere and thus there is nowhere left on this planet that is unspoiled.
While he occasionally falls into the nostalgic view of Nature common to many nature writers, his argument is compelling and well-written.… (mere)
He doesn't offer many answers, as he recognizes that it's impossible to know exactly what will happen. He does, however, make the case that it's already too late, we've already changed the atmosphere and everywhere on Earth is now touched by humankind.
This is what he means by "end of Nature," our idea of Nature as that which is unspoiled by humanity is forever gone. We've changed the atmosphere and thus there is nowhere left on this planet that is unspoiled.
While he occasionally falls into the nostalgic view of Nature common to many nature writers, his argument is compelling and well-written.… (mere)
Entertaining because of personal similarities in life with the author.
What can I say, I am very disappointed with this book. First off he talks about a number of problems facing the United States; however, instead of focusing on one aspect he throws them all at the reader at one time. While it is true that they are part of a major problem the major problem is not specified nor does he show how these problems are interconnected. Are we talking about income inequality, racial inequality, the climate or who the heck knows? These are all complex issues and they will require complex solutions. There is a solution offered which is doomed to fail. I personally think that another approach needs to be taken and it has not been mentioned. I will let the reader of this review decide the alternative, a my alternative may not be the right one.… (mere)
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