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Books by Bill Mckibben






The End of Nature(Reprint)
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2006 by Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-7608-3, ISBN: 0-8129-7608-8

"Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth.This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that the survival of the globe is dependent on a fundamental, philoso ..."






Falter(Reprint)
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2020 by Holt Paperbacks
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-25685-0, ISBN: 1-250-25685-2

"Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic -- was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where o ..."






Eaarth(1st Edition)
Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2011 by St. Martin's Griffin
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-54119-4, ISBN: 0-312-54119-8

"Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2010: Since he first heralded our era of environmental collapse in 1989's The End of Nature, Bill McKibben has raised a series of eloquent alarms. In Eaarth, he leads readers to the devastatingly comprehensive conclusion that we no longer inhabit the world in which we've flourished for most of human history: we've passed the tipping point for dramatic climate change, and even if we could stop emissi ..."






Enough
Staying Human in an Engineered Age Enough
by Bill Mckibben, Sue Halpern, Mitchell Hay, Barbara Lemmel
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2004 by St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-7519-9, ISBN: 0-8050-7519-4

"Passionate, succinct, chilling, closely argued, sometimes hilarious, touchingly well-intentioned, and essential." --Margaret Atwood, The New York Review of BooksNearly fifteen years ago, in The End of Nature, Bill McKibben demonstrated that humanity had begun to irrevocably alter and endanger our environment on a global scale. Now he turns his eye to an array of technologies that could change our relationship not with the rest of nature ..."






Deep Economy
The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2008 by St. Martin's Griffin
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-8722-2, ISBN: 0-8050-8722-2

"“Masterfully crafted, deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding.”—Los Angeles Times In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. Deep Economy makes the compelling case for moving beyond “growth” as the paramount economic ideal and pursuing prosperity in a more local direction, with regions producing more of their own food, generating more of thei ..."






Wandering Home(Reprint)
A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2014 by St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN-13: 978-1-62779-020-8, ISBN: 1-62779-020-9

""[McKibben is] a marvelous writer who has thought deeply about the environment, loves this part of the country, and knows how to be a first-class traveling companion."--Entertainment WeeklyIn Wandering Home, one of his most personal books, Bill McKibben invites readers to join him on a hike from his current home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks. Here he reveals that the motivation for his impassioned environmental activi ..."






Radio Free Vermont(Reprint)
A Fable of Resistance
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2018 by Blue Rider Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-4372-7, ISBN: 1-5247-4372-0

" “We've got a long history of resistance in Vermont and this book is testimony to that fact.” –Bernie SandersA book that's also the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic.   As the host of Radio Free Vermont--"underground, underpowered, and underfoot"--seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently bro ..."






Deep Economy(1st Edition)
The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
by Bill Mckibben
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2007 by Times Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-7626-4, ISBN: 0-8050-7626-3

"The bestselling author of The End of Nature issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our lives In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. For the first time in human history, he observes, "more" is no longer synonymous with "better"-indeed, for many of us, they have become almost opposites. McKi ..."






How to Shit in the Woods,(4th Edition)
An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art
by Kathleen Meyer, Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2020 by Ten Speed Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-984857-13-2, ISBN: 1-984857-13-4

"The definitive guide to eco-friendly outdoor defecation--fully revised with a new introduction by renowned author and environmental activist Bill McKibben.More than thirty years since its first publication, Kathleen Meyer delivers an update to the beloved guide to relieving yourself responsibly. Meyer's delightfully shameless discussion of a once-secretive activity examines the environmental impact of too much crap (organic and otherwis ..."






Eaarth(1st Edition)
Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
by Bill Mckibben
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2010 by Times Books
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-9056-7, ISBN: 0-8050-9056-8

""Read it, please. Straight through to the end. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important." —Barbara KingsolverTwenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our o ..."






Fight Global Warming Now(1st Edition)
The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2007 by St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-8704-8, ISBN: 0-8050-8704-4

"Bestselling author Bill McKibben turns activist in the first hands-on guidebook to stopping climate change, the world's greatest threatHurricane Katrina. A rapidly disappearing Arctic. The warmest winter on the East Coast in recorded history. The leading scientist at NASA warns that we have only ten years to reverse climate change; the British government's report on global warming estimates that the financial impact will be greater than ..."






The Age of Missing Information(Reprint)
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by Random House Trade Paperbacks
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-7607-6, ISBN: 0-8129-7607-X

"“Highly personal and original . . . McKibben goes beyond Marshall McLuhan’s theory that the medium is the message.”——The New York Times Imagine watching an entire day’s worth of television on every single channel. Acclaimed environmental writer and culture critic Bill McKibben subjected himself to this sensory overload in an experiment to verify whether we are truly better informed than previous generations. Bombarded with n ..."






Hope, Human and Wild(1st Edition)
True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (The World As Home)
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2007 by Milkweed Editions
ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-300-3, ISBN: 1-57131-300-1

"Divided into three sections, Hope, Human and Wild profiles the efforts of three caring communities to preserve wilderness and reverse environmental devastation. They include the reforestation of McKibben’s home territory, New York’s Adirondack Mountains; solving traffic and pollution problems in the densely populated Curitiba, Brazil; and how the citizens of Kerala, India have demonstrated that quality of life doesn’t depend on ov ..."






The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon
A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened
by Bill. Mckibben
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2022 by Holt, 2022
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-82360-1, ISBN: 1-250-82360-9






Long Distance
Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2010 by Rodale Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-60529-124-6, ISBN: 1-60529-124-2

"At the age of 37, bestselling author and journalist Bill McKibben stepped out of the ordinary routine of his life to spend a year in "real training" as a cross-country skier. With the help of a trainer-slash-guru, McKibben took on a regimen equivalent to that of an Olympic endurance athlete's, running and skiing for hours every day in preparation for a series of grueling long-distance ski races. What prompted this successful write ..."






Long Distance
A Year of Living Strenuously
by Bill Mckibben, Long Distance
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2000 by Simon & Schuster
ISBN-13: 978-0-684-85597-4, ISBN: 0-684-85597-6

"This text documents Bill McKribbens year as an imposter of sorts in the demanding world of competitive skiing. In his late 30s McKribben decided to test his body. He decided upon cross-country skiing. He took a year out and trained full-time - with the help of a coach/guru - putting in hours and miles typical of an Olympic athlete. McKribben's year culminated in a series of long-distance cross-country races, where his body experienced r ..."






The Age of Missing Information(1st Edition)
by Bill Mckibben
Hardcover, 261 Pages, Published 1992 by Random House
ISBN-13: 978-0-394-58933-6, ISBN: 0-394-58933-5

"“Highly personal and original . . . McKibben goes beyond Marshall McLuhan’s theory that the medium is the message.”——The New York Times Imagine watching an entire day’s worth of television on every single channel. Acclaimed environmental writer and culture critic Bill McKibben subjected himself to this sensory overload in an experiment to verify whether we are truly better informed than previous generations. Bombarded with newscasts and ..."






My First Summer in the Sierra and Selected Essays
(Library of America Paperback Classics)
by John Muir, Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2011 by Library Of America
ISBN-13: 978-1-59853-111-4, ISBN: 1-59853-111-5

"John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become the famed conservationist whom he liked to call "John o' the Mountains" when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada not long after the end of the Civil War. Having caught a glimpse of such magical places as Tuolumne Meadows and El Capitan, Muir ached to return, and in the summer of 1869 he signed on with a crew of shepherds and drove a flock of 2,500 woolly crit ..."






(2nd Edition)
[ Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy [ BIODIESEL: GROWING A NEW ENERGY ECONOMY ] By Pahl, Greg ( Author )Sep-01-2008 Paperback
by Greg Pahl, Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2008 by Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-933392-96-7, ISBN: 1-933392-96-7

"For anyone who is trying to keep up with the extremely rapid developments in the biodiesel industry, the second edition of Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy is an invaluable aid. The breathtaking speed with which biodiesel has gained acceptance in the marketplace in the past few years has been exceeded only by the proliferation of biodiesel production facilities around the United States--and the world--only to confront new social ..."






American Earth
Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (LOA #182) (Library of America)
by Bill Mckibben, Jr. Gore Albert, Al Gore
Hardcover, 900 Pages, Published 2008 by Library Of America
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-1-59853-020-9, ISBN: 1-59853-020-8

"As America and the world grapple with the consequences of global environmental change, writer and activist Bill McKibben offers this unprecedented, provocative, and timely anthology, gathering the best and most significant American environmental writing from the last two centuries. Classics of the environmental imagination?the essays of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Burroughs; Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac"; Rachel C ..."



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