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McKibben in 2011
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| Born | William Ernest McKibben December 8, 1960 Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Environmental activist |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (B.A., 1982) |
| Genre | Global warming, alternative energy, risks associated with human genetic engineering |
| Notable awards | Gandhi Peace Award, 2013 |
| Spouse | Sue Halpern |
| Children | Sophie McKibben (b. 1993) |
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William Ernest "Bill" McKibben (born December 8, 1960) is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and leader of the anti-carbon campaign group 350.org. He has authored a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature (1989), about climate change.
In 2009, he led 350.org's organization of 5,200 simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. In 2010, McKibben and 350.org conceived the 10/10/10 Global Work Party, which convened more than 7,000 events in 188 countries as he had told a large gathering at Warren Wilson College shortly before the event. In December 2010, 350.org coordinated a planet-scale art project, with many of the 20 works visible from satellites. In 2011 and 2012 he led the environmental campaign against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project and spent three days in jail in Washington, D.C. It was one of the largest civil disobedience actions in America for decades. Two weeks later he was inducted into the literature section of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He was awarded the Gandhi Peace Award in 2013.Foreign Policy magazine named him to its inaugural list of the 100 most important global thinkers in 2009 and MSN named him one of the dozen most influential men of 2009. In 2010, the Boston Globe called him "probably the nation's leading environmentalist" and Time magazine book reviewer Bryan Walsh described him as "the world's best green journalist".
McKibben was born in Palo Alto, California. He grew up in the Boston suburb of Lexington, Massachusetts, where he attended high school. His father, who was arrested in 1971 during a protest in support of Vietnam veterans against the war, had written for Business Week and was business editor at The Boston Globe in 1980. As a high school student, McKibben wrote for the local paper and participated in statewide debate competitions. Entering Harvard University in 1978, he became an editor of The Harvard Crimson and was chosen president of the paper for the calendar year 1981. In 1980, following the election of Ronald Reagan, he determined to dedicate his life to the environmental cause.
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