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Bill McKibben on US Bullying Climate Talks, COP16 and 350

Image by 350.org via Flickr Broadcasting from Cancún, Mexico where the COP16 Climate Summit is taking place, Democracy Now caught up with author and  350.org co-founder Bill McKibben. Here is an excerpt from that interview (embedded above): AMY GOODMAN: For more on the issue of the WikiLeaks cables and the international climate change talks, I spoke with the longtime environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben here in Cancún. He’s the founder of 350.org and the winner ...

10/10/10 -7347 Global Work Parties in 188 Countries- the Biggest Event Ever on Planet Earth

"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it, And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it." -Eleanor Roosevelt And there was a whole lot of work going on yesterday. According to 350.org's co-founder, Bill McKibben "it was the most widespread day of political engagement in the planet's history, and a real chance for people across the world to say the same thing: We're fed up with the inaction of our leaders on climate, and we want them to work half as hard as we're...

What will you be doing on 10/10/10?

Participating in a  Global Work Party to celebrate climate solutions, we hope. On 10/10/10, people from all over the world will be coming together to implement solutions to the climate crisis. From tree plantings to beach clean-ups, from community gardens to bike rides, from solar panels to wind turbines, we'll collectively begin changing our world from the bottom up. At all of these events, we'll be taking photos with a call to action for our political leaders. We'll tell them, "we're ge...

Global Warning, Our Oil Addiction and Living on a New Planet

Narrated by Leo DiCaprio, this clip is based on the book by Thom Hartmann, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late. "Picture this, a blue planet protected by a thin layer of atmosphere that keeps temperature, air and water in perfect balance to maintain life. In the cold depths of space, this planet is a virtual paradise, the only one know of its kind. And, it is our planet, Earth. But something is wrong...human civilization and our re...

350.org Founder, Author Bill McKibben on “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet”

Ahead of Earth Day and Cochabamba, Bolivia’s indigenous summit on climate change along with the anticipated unveiling of a Senate climate bill this coming week, Democracy Now spoke with someone who sounded one of the earliest alarms about global warming. In 1989, Author Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature but his warnings were largely ignored. Below are some excerpts from that interview. BILL McKIBBEN: On his new book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet:  Look, the planet that we l...