2010 Keynote: Our neighborhoods and the planet: scaling our hope
Bill McKibben gave the keynote address at the 2010 National Cohousing Conference. To underscore the importance of reducing our carbon footprint, Bill joined us via video, followed by an interactive teleconference. The video starts with Coho/US Board member Diane Margolis introducing Bill.
An American environmentalist and writer, Bill McKibben is the founder of 350.org, an international climate campaign. Bill frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with genetic engineering. Beginning in the summer of 2006, Bill led the organization of the largest demonstrations against global warming in American history. McKibben is active in the Methodist church, and his writing sometimes has a spiritual bent.
Bill’s first book, The End of Nature, was published in 1989 by Random House after being serialized in The New Yorker. It is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change and has been printed in more than 20 languages. Several editions have come out in the United States, including an updated version published in 2006.
Bill is the author of eight other books and 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 of and contributor to Grist Magazine.
Bill currently resides with his wife, writer Sue Halpern, and his daughter, Sophie, in Ripton, Vermont. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. To learn more about Bill and his work, visit www.billmckibben.com.
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