BILL MCKIBBEN
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Step It Up 2007
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Saturday Evening, September 15. 2007

Author and American environmentalist Bill McKibben writes frequently about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. His first book, The End of Nature, was published in 1989 after being serialized in The New Yorker. It is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change. His most recent book, Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, published in March 2007, addresses what the author sees as shortcomings of the growth economy and envisions a transition to more local-scale enterprise. In January 2007 he founded Step It Up 2007 to demand that Congress enact curbs on carbon emissions that would cut global warming pollution 80 percent by 2050. With the help of six college students, he organized 1,400 global warming demonstrations across all 50 states of America. Bill is a frequent contributor to various magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. He is also a board member and contributor to Grist Magazine. Bill has been awarded Guggenheim and Lyndhurst Fellowships, and won the Lannan Prize for nonfiction writing in 2000. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College.