Tag: Bill McKibben

  • Nation & World

    Big problems, small solutions

    Author and activist Bill McKibben ’82 visited Harvard with a message: In the face of catastrophic climate change, it’s time for overt and energetic civil action.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Silent Spring,’ 50 years on

    Environmentalists and faculty members gathered at Sanders Theatre to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” which catalyzed the environmental movement in its impassioned presentation of the impact of chemicals on nature.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Reality check

    Author-turned-activist Bill McKibben says the fight to arrest global warming requires an international movement to force political change.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    McKibben’s movement: 350.org

    Activist and author Bill McKibben ’82 takes to the pulpit in a plea for climate change action.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Protecting nature religiously

    “Our religious institutions are the only institutions that are not completely implicated in the culture of materialism and growth,” said Bill McKibben, an environmental activist and a fellow at Harvard…

    1 minute