Bill McKibben
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Bill McKibben is an environmentalist who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. McKibben's writing sometimes comes from a spiritual perspective—which is not surprising as he is active in the Methodist Church.
McKibben grew up in suburban Lexington, Massachusetts. He currently lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain in Ripton, Vermont with his wife, writer Sue Halpern, and is a visiting scholar at Middlebury College.
Bill is a frequent contributor to various magazines including "The New York Times", "The Atlantic Monthly", "The New York Review of Books", and "Outside". Bill is also a board member and contributor to "Grist Magazine".
Books
- Wandering Home 2005 ISBN 0609610732
- Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age 2003 ISBN 0805070966
- The End of Nature 1990 ISBN 0385416040
- Hundred Dollar Holiday
- Maybe One
- The Age of Missing Information 1993 - Challenges Marshall McLuhan's "global village" ideal and claims the standardization of life in electronic media is that of image and not substance, resulting in a loss of meaningful content in society
- Hope, Human and Wild
External links
- "Bill McKibben.com". Bill McKibben's web site (http://www.billmckibben.com/)
- "We Are Plenty Good Enough". Bill McKibben on brash plans to tinker with our genes. by Jennifer Hattam (http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200311/interview.asp) Interview
- Bill McKibben articles (http://www.assumption.edu/users/ady/Media/mckibben.html)
- "Enough Already: A leading environmentalist makes a foolish case against technological innovation" (http://www.reason.com/0310/cr.rb.enough.shtml) by Ronald Bailey Reason (magazine)