Articles
Bill is a frequent contributor to various magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. He is also a board member and contributor to Grist Magazine.
Here are links to some of Bill's articles and to various interviews for magazines and radio programs. Note that the links take you off this site, to the source's own website.
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The Only Way to Have a Cow | Orion Magazine
A call for America to divest its heart and stomach from feedlot beef [March/April 2010]
Washington's Snowstorms, Brought to you by Global Warming | The Washington Post
You want to hear my winter weather story? No, really, I know you do. [February 14, 2010]
As the World Waits on the U.S.,
a Sense of Déjà Vu in Denmark? | Yale Environment 360
Twelve years ago in Kyoto, the world was poised to act on a climate treaty but looked for a clear signal from the United States. Now, with the Copenhagen talks set to begin, the outcome once again hinges on what the U.S. is prepared to do. [November 30, 2009]
Why 350 Is A Magic Number | New Matilda
Facing climate disaster, African countries are calling for a fast greenhouse gas reduction to 350 parts per million ahead of the global climate protests this Saturday [October 20, 2009]
First, Step Up | Yes! Magazine
At any given moment we face as a society an enormous number of problems. But there’s only one thing we’re doing that will be easily visible from the moon. That something is global warming. [Spring 2008]
Remember This: 350 Parts Per Million | Washington Post
This month may have been the most important yet in the two-decade history of the fight against global warming. Al Gore got his Nobel in Stockholm; international negotiators made real progress on a treaty in Bali; and in Washington, Congress actually worked up the nerve to raise gas mileage standards for cars. But what may turn out to be the most crucial development went largely unnoticed.
[December 28, 2007]
The Power of the Click | Los Angeles Times
The Internet is more than a campaign fundraising tool; it's creating a political force. [October 16, 2007]
Can Anyone Stop It? | New York Review of Books
During the last year, momentum has finally begun to build for taking action against global warming by putting limits on carbon emissions and then reducing them. Driven by ever-more-dire scientific reports, Congress has, for the first time, begun debating ambitious targets for carbon reduction. [October 11, 2007]
The Race Againts Warming | The Washington Post
We're in a desperate race. Politics is chasing reality, and the gap between them isn't closing nearly fast enough. [September 29, 2007]
Carbon's New Math | National Geographic Magazine
The CO2 from fossil fuels lingers in the atmosphere, so global warming can't be undone. But catastrophe can still be averted. [October 2007]
Everybody's Organizing [PDF] | elephant journal
Waylon H. Lewis of elephant journal interviews Bill McKibben on intersection of the environment and local economies and how Bill's recent trip to Tibet influenced Step it Up 2007. [Summer 2007]
Bill McKibben on Deep Economy | KQED's Forum
Forum talks with Bill McKibben about his recent work challenging things purchased, eaten and used and the money that pays for it all. [March 2007]
Reversal of Fortune | Mother Jones
The formula for human well-being used to be simple: Make money, get happy. So why is the old axiom suddenly turning on us? [March/April 2007]
Energizing America | Sierra Magazine
Fossil fuels burned brightly in their day, but now it's time to make the leap to safer, cleaner, climate-friendly alternatives. [January/February 2007]
Bill McKibben on Greening Corporations | Mother Jones Radio Broadcast
Is corporate social responsibility for real, or is it just "greenwashing." [December 2006]
Bill Blakemore talks to Bill McKibben | Desmogblog Radio
Bill Blakemore, senior correspondent for ABC News, asks McKibben a few questions about climate change and where we're headed politically. [October 2006]
State of the Planet 2006 | Seed Magazine
Whether this or future Earth Days help solve any particular environmental problems won't matter a bit, unless we tackle the biggie—climate change. Bill McKibben reviews the damage and points the way forward. The x-factor in preventing catastrophe, he says, will be whether the American public—with its financial and cultural power to move mountains—sort of gets it, or really gets it. [April/May 2006]
What a Real, Living, Durable Economy Looks Like | Powell's Books
Original essay written for Powells on global economy.
Meet the New Loss | Grist Magazine
Bill writes about Hurricane Katrina and how it brings a foretaste of environmental disasters to come. [September 7, 2005]
Climate of Denial | Mother Jones
One morning in Kyoto, we won a round in the battle against global warming. Then special interests and pseudoscience snatched the truth away. What happened? [May/June 2005]
Environmental Writer Bill McKibben 'Wanders Home' | National Public Radio
NPR's Alex Chadwick speaks with the environmental writer about his new book, Wandering Home—A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks. [April 11, 2005]
We Are Plenty Good Enough | Sierra Magazine
Bill talks with Sierra Magazine about "brash plans to tinker with our genes." [November 2003]
Small Change: My Mileage is Better Than Your Mileage | Orion Online
An all-American idea for getting Americans to take gas consumption
seriously. [January/February 2003]
It's Easy Being Green | Mother Jones
George W. Bush doesn't get it yet. But renewable energy is no longer the stuff of noble visions and pipe dreams: It's available, inexpensive, and increasingly—normal. [July/August 2002]
An End to Sweet Illusions | Mother Jones
America must open its eyes to the rest of the world. [January/February 2002]
An Alternative to Progress | Mother Jones
Bangladesh, despite all its problems, holds the promise of a kind of self-sufficiency not imagined at the World Bank. [May/June 2001]
Across the Disappearing Finish Line | Outside Magazine
Searching for the keys to endurance, a ski racer pushes his body and heart to the limit—until his father's sudden illness changes all the rules. [November 2000]
Hundred Dollar Holiday | Enough!
Bill writes about the Hundred Dollar Holiday program and about some real reasons to change your holiday experience. [Winter 1999]
Cross-Country Ski Your Way to Shining Health, Renewed Vigor, and Everlasting Happiness! | Outside Magazine
Life got you down? Feeling morose, slaggardly, low on essence? Ah, dear friend, you need the curative powers contained within a pair of skinny racing planks (and, OK, 12 months of diligent effort). Skeptical? Just listen to one winner's remarkable story. [February 1999]
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Special Moment In History | The Atlantic Monthly
The dangers of overpopulation, the dangers of climate change, the dangers of pollution—we've been hearing about all these dangers for years, and yet doomsday still hasn't come. But what if we have already inflicted serious damage on the planet? And what if we have only a few decades left in which to salvage a stable environment? These questions, the author argues, are not hypothetical. [May 1998]
New York Review of Books
Links to Bill's introductions and book reviews on the New York Review of Books site.
