'Fossil Free' Campaign By 350.org's Bill McKibben Aims To Convince Colleges Not To Invest In Oil. From Mother Nature Network's Jim Motavalli: Among environmental scribes, Bill McKibben is a legend. That’s not only because he had a knack, in such books as The End of Nature (1989), The Age of Missing Information (1992) and his most recent Eaarth (2011), of telling an important story before anybody else, but also because he is a mensch, and so darned helpful reviewing and blurbing books for other writers. Including at least one of mine. That’s why it got attention when McKibben largely stopped writing and became a climate activist, best known as the founder of 350.org. The reasons for that are in an article he wrote for Rolling Stone last summer. “The official position of planet Earth at the moment is that we can’t raise the temperature more than two degrees Celsius,” he wrote.
“It’s become the bottomest of bottom lines. The group’s title refers to the 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide considered to be the upper safe limit to concentrate in the atmosphere. It could be worse. Bill McKibben's Latest Nonsense: Consumers Are The Climate Change Problem, Not Corporations. Bill McKibben. The Arctic Ice Crisis | ARTICLE There's no place on Earth that's changing faster – and no place where that change matters more – than Greenland. Late last month, NASA reported that ice all across the vast glacial interior of the world's largest... August 16, 2012 10:10 AM ET Global Warming's Terrifying New Math | ARTICLE If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across... July 19, 2012 9:35 AM ET The Keystone Pipeline Revolt: Why Mass Arrests are Just the Beginning | ARTICLE Let's get the jail part out of the way right at the start.
Central Cell Block in Washington, D.C., is exactly as much... Bill McKibben and 350.org on the 'Do the Math' Tour Pictures - Do The Math. Official site for Bill McKibben: Author - Educator - Environmentalist. 350.org.