The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life

The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life
by Bill McKibben

The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life
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Author: Bill McKibben
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2008-03-04
ISBN: 0805076271
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

Book Reviews of The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life

Book Review: Something old, something new
Summary: 3 Stars

Excellent writing, some of it already in his new Deep Economy. Mckibben has the ability, now he needs to focus his attention on where the American community should be going now that everyone except Exxon knows that global warming is for real.

Summary of The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life

Powerful, impassioned essays on living and being in the world, from the bestselling author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy
For a generation, Bill McKibben has been among America’s most impassioned and beloved writers on our relationship to our world and our environment. His groundbreaking book on climate change, The End of Nature, is considered “as important as Rachel Carson’s classic Silent Spring”* and Deep Economy, his “deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding”** exploration of globalization, helped awaken and fuel a movement to restore local economies.

Now, for the first time, the best of McKibben’s essays—fiery, magical, and infused with his uniquely soulful investigations of modern life—are collected in a single volume. Whether meditating on today’s golden age in radio, the natural place of biting black flies in our lives, or the patriotism of a grandmother fighting to get corporate money out of politics, McKibben inspires us to become better caretakers of the Earth—and of one another.

*The Plain Dealer (Cleveland )
**Michael Pollan

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