Bill McKibben

If you wanted one headline to explain what happened to us, this might do it: trying to make bank off a ten percent chance of killing us all

If you wanted one headline to explain what happened to us, this might do it: trying to make bank off a ten percent chance of killing us all

Lula’s win is the first good news for the planet in a while! I bet it shaves a tenth of a degree off how hot our earth eventually gets, which will save millions of lives Thank you Brazil!

Lula’s win is the first good news for the planet in a while! I bet it shaves a tenth of a degree off how hot our earth eventually gets, which will save millions of lives Thank you Brazil!

“Since Trump likes plaques, we should give him one as EV salesman of the decade. We will look back on 2026 as the year that it became entirely clear the Internal Combustion Engine was a relic” 👌🏻

“The Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is perhaps the greatest chronicler of that era of scale, which stretched across the long twentieth century and only now shows the first signs of receding.” —@billmckibben.bsky.social

@ayanaeliza.bsky.social is a brilliant scientist and writer, but she's also incredibly deft as a radio presence--it's just good fun to sit back and listen to her work!

Not an exaggeration to say that elections in the next twelve days will have a huge effect on how many trees survive on our planet, and what its atmosphere is composed of. billmckibben.substack.com/p/elections-...

Not an exaggeration to say that elections in the next twelve days will have a huge effect on how many trees survive on our planet, and what its atmosphere is composed of. billmckibben.substack.com/p/elections-...

Wow. Bill's remarks brought his host to tears (me too): This yr's massive anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis was 'a display of human courage & love' as significant to the history of resistance as Montgomery's bus boycott & Gandhi's Salt March. @billmckibben.bsky.social #Resist #TooBigToRig #Hope

I wept the tiniest bit when I heard this news--a good man badly needed on this earth right now! www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-le...

I wept the tiniest bit when I heard this news--a good man badly needed on this earth right now! www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-le...

The solar panel is the new peace symbol. Pass it on. @billmckibben.bsky.social

From Adam McKay, Woody Harrelson, and @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social, the only true Exxon ad you'll ever see

"The solar panel is the new peace symbol." ☀️💛 @billmckibben.bsky.social in his latest brilliant substack, The Crucial Years: billmckibben.substack.com/p/are-the-pe...

Are the peace movement and the climate movement the same thing? The solar panel is the new peace symbol. billmckibben.substack.com/p/are-the-pe... @billmckibben.bsky.social

Oil is the cause, the effect, the weapon, and the vulnerability in our world’s myriad wars billmckibben.substack.com/p/are-the-pe...

Oil is the cause, the effect, the weapon, and the vulnerability in our world’s myriad wars billmckibben.substack.com/p/are-the-pe...

From Japan where it’s tomorrow, a kickoff to No Kings Day with the great Rebecca Solnit down front @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Join me! We’ve got to win up and down the ballot!

All you Terps, pitch in! And many thanks to @thirdactmd.bsky.social

To be an American right now is to feel an intense sense of shame, for abandoning our allies and sucking up to dictators. Trump and Musk are not just betraying Ukraine, they're betraying the very idea of freedom. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...

To be an American right now is to feel an intense sense of shame, for abandoning our allies and sucking up to dictators. Trump and Musk are not just betraying Ukraine, they're betraying the very idea of freedom. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...

If you're near the nation's capitol, join Third Act DMV for No Kings Day--there will be a March to Stop the Arch, and you'll end up on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, above the...reflecting pool. Be there! Annoy the president! capitolhillcorner.org/2026/10/13/n...

Hey! Australia is first nation to formally endorse the drive for 300 million solar rooftops across our planet. We can do this! www.globalsolarcouncil.org/news/austral...

Hey! Australia is first nation to formally endorse the drive for 300 million solar rooftops across our planet. We can do this! www.globalsolarcouncil.org/news/austral...

Local elections matter for climate, big time. Public utility commissions? Let’s get into it! @billmckibben.bsky.social McKibben and I interviewed Clara Pratte, running for AZ Corporation Commission. Wherever you get podcasts. www.getitright.earth/podcast ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/a-critical...

@billmckibben.bsky.social explains why he cannot support the permitting reform bill, showing due respect for @whitehouse.senate.gov & clean energy advocates who believe it's a positive step forward. A must-read, both for the analysis & a lesson on how to lower the temperature in fractious debates.

He is the richest man, so he should have the most say in how we're governed. That's only right, eh? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

My mom, age 96, has voted in every election since 1952. Be like her! Get your ballot in now! @thirdactorg.bsky.social

My mom, age 96, has voted in every election since 1952. Be like her! Get your ballot in now! @thirdactorg.bsky.social

Literally nothing too petty for sycophants like Rubio www.reuters.com/world/us-imp...

"The simultaneous Tropical Storm Watch on the West Coast for Tropical Storm Rachel and the Hurricane Warning for Isaias on the Atlantic coast marks the first time NHC has ever issued watches/warnings simultaneously for both U.S. coastlines." yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/10/cate...

Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register

Literally nothing too petty for sycophants like Rubio www.reuters.com/world/us-imp...

Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register

If we care about human nature, we’re going to need to figure out how to conserve it, in some of the same ways we’ve tried to do with nature nature. billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-human-en...

This is what democracy looks like. Canvassing Sunday in 104-degree heat for Bakersfield's Randy Villegas with @billmckibben.bsky.social, @seedthevote.bsky.social and my other Bill friend thru @thirdactorg.bsky.social's PAC #GetOutTheVote

according to their own statements, "some bad things" includes a non-trivial chance of human extinction. why on earth do we let these companies continue to operate?

Third Actors from across California converging on Bakersfield to knock doors in triple digit heat for Randy Villegas. So proud of @thirdactorg.bsky.social

Third Actors from across California converging on Bakersfield this weekend to knock doors for Randy Villegas in his Congressional race So proud of @thirdactorg.bsky.social

ICE's shameless stupid cruelty continues unabated. Here's a truly wrenching account from our wonderful local Vermont newspaper, which I imagine could be multiplied a thousandfold every day across America. Many thanks to Liza Cochran, its author bravelittlevoices.substack.com/p/terror-in-...

I shd post about why I'm canvassing for Randy Villegas (CA-22) w/ @billmckibben.bsky.social & @thirdactorg.bsky.social Sun. but I'm too excited to have placed this op-ed Bill wrote about it, for my day job. But read it! It's why we're canvassing in the brutal Bakersfield heat. tinyurl.com/5n8cr9j4

ICE's shameless stupid cruelty continues unabated. Here's a truly wrenching account from our wonderful local Vermont newspaper, which I imagine could be multiplied a thousandfold every day across America. Many thanks to Liza Cochran, its author bravelittlevoices.substack.com/p/terror-in-...

"A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time." 🎁🔗

"What is irrational is continuing down the road of fossil fuels. That's irrational on the costs, the risks, the impacts. It's an old technology." My comments about the opportunity of solar for all, everywhere, by 2030! #SolarForAll. Thanks @billmckibben.bsky.social for leading the way!

“I will get my chisel and I will be right over there with everybody, tearing it down.” So proud of Third Act colleagues in the nation's capitol who organized a big protest against the proposed Arch www.arlnow.com/2026/10/01/c...

An attempt to offer some context for the coming debate on permitting reform. billmckibben.substack.com/p/reform-or-...

An attempt to offer some context for the coming debate on permitting reform. billmckibben.substack.com/p/reform-or-...

Zan is right. Please join us and help win this winnable seat from the GOP