![]() ![]() each day - we gain a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of decision making and environmental politics. As he struggles to make government leaders understand the monumental risk of building the Keystone XL Pipeline - a proposed 1,500-mile pipeline linking the tar sands of western Canada to the Gulf of Mexico that could pipe some 830,000 barrels of oil into the U.S. ![]() In his latest nonfiction book, Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist, McKibben chronicles his experiences over the last two years helping lead a movement to block the Keystone XL Pipeline and bring climate change to the global agenda.Īt the forefront of climate change protests, McKibben proves a thoughtful expert. McKibben cofounded 350.org, an environmental organization whose global grassroots movement aims to minimize climate change by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere to less than 350 parts per million (it’s currently about 400 ppm). ![]() Writer, climate change activist, speaker and professor Bill McKibben has written and taught about our planet’s warming for a quarter century. ![]()
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