Bill McKibben
Mountainfilm’s 2023 Guest Director Bill McKibben is an author, activist and climate change thought leader. McKibben founded the first global grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which in recent years has focused on getting institutions of higher education to divest from fossil fuels. He is a contributing writer to The New Yorker and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. His most recent project is Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. In 2014 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel,’ in the Swedish Parliament. He's also won the Gandhi Peace Award, and has honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. McKibben first presented at Mountainfilm in 2009. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book about climate change for a general audience. His latest book is The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at his Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened. McKibben currently lives in Vermont and has long been a Mountainfilm hero and inspiration.
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350.org
We're an international movement of ordinary people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all. Accelerate the transition to a new, just clean energy economy by supporting community-led energy solutions. Stop and ban all oil, coal and gas projects from being built through local resolutions and community resistance. Cut off the social license and financing for fossil fuel companies — divest, desponsor and defund. We are bold, creative and strategic. The climate crisis is immense –– we must be daring and courageous in response. We embrace experiments and new solutions, recognizing that this crisis requires innovative ways of solving problems.