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350.org founder Bill McKibben receives Alternative Nobel award
2014-09-26 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Renowned US environmentalist Bill McKibben will be one of the recipients of this years Right Livelihood Awards, known as the Alternative Nobel, it has been announced. McKibben is the founder of the campaign group 350.org, which is lobbying around the world to build an international movement to stop climate change. The author and journalist is widely credited with popularising fossil fuel divestment, after communicating the concept in his 2012 Rolling Stone article Global Warmings Terrifying...
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Climate Activist Bill McKibben Wins Right Livelihood Award
2014-09-24 21:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Bill McKibben, founder of the international climate action group 350.org, will be one of five recipients of this year`s Right Livelihood Awards, when they are presented at the Swedish Parliament in early December, the Stockholm foundation that created the awards announced today. The 2014 Awards honor courageous and effective work for human rights, freedom of the press, civil liberties and combating climate change, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation said. American surveillance whistleblower...
Meet Bill McKibben, man behind massive 'People's Climate March' rally
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: Bill McKibben wrote the first big book about global warming, a work he hoped would startle the world like a fire alarm. But the planet just kept on hurtling toward an overheated doom, he noticed. So twenty-five years later, hes come up with a shriller, more literal strategy for reform: actual alarms. At 1 p.m. on Sunday, after a scene-setting moment of silence, more than 100,000 activists are expected to use phones, whistles, horns, speakers and anything else with a decibel-level to make as much...
Bill McKibben: We Need to Win Not Delay the Keystone XL Pipeline Decision
2014-04-19 16:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Yesterdays Keystone XL news from DC is both important and murky. In brief, the Obama administration announced yet another delay in their decision about the pipeline, meaning it may be past the midterm elections before a final call is made. Three things strike me: In pipeline terms its a win. Every day we delay a decision is a day when 830,000 barrels of oil stays safely in the ground. Together weve kept them at bay for three years now, and will continue to until perhaps the beginning of...
McKibben: Holding Fossil Fuel Stock = Betting on Global Warming
2014-04-09 00:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Environmental activist Bill McKibben is asking people, institutions and governments to divest holdings of fossil fuel companies in a bid to avert the worst impacts of climate change. If companies and governments produce and burn all their reserves of coal and oil, temperatures will surpass a level many scientists say will trigger catastrophic climate change, McKibben said today in at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance conference in New York. Starving fossil fuel producers of capital, he said, is...
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