Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement. A former staff writer for The New Yorker, McKibben is the author of more than a dozen books, including Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (Henry Holt, 2010), Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (Henry Holt, 2007), Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America’s Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont Champlain Valley and New York Adirondacks (Crown Journeys, 2005), and The End of Nature (Random House, 1989). McKibben was the 2013 winner of the Gandhi Prize and Thomas Merton Prize, in 2014 was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the “alternative Nobel Prize,” and was named by Foreign Policy in its inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers and by The Boston Globe as “probably America’s most important environmentalist.”