Bill McKibben is an author, educator, and environmentalist. He is a contributing writer to The New Yorker and a founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. He founded the first global grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont.
In 2014 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the “alternative Nobel,” in the Swedish Parliament. He has also received the Gandhi Peace Award and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities.
McKibben has written more than twenty books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature (1989); The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened; and his latest book, Here Comes the Sun.