Bill McKibben

Vermont

Contributing Writer at The New Yorker

Author, Educator, Environmentalist and founder of https://t.co/RD1mCHAneQ and https://t.co/58WgUpHwRO. Opinions all my own, and expressed at greater length at https://t.co/va0A985uVl

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Your Monthly Dose of Climate Hope: A Conversation with Bill McKibben (Recording)

1 week ago | sammatey.substack.com | Sam Matey |Bill McKibben

The second Monthly Dose of Climate Hope live event took place on June 11, 2025! Sam Matey hosted an in-depth conversation with world-leading climate activist Bill McKibben. The YouTube recording is above, and below we embed and quote a selection from Bill McKibben’s many excellent recent Substack posts at ! You can join SunDay at sunday.earth.
SunDay

3 weeks ago | tandfonline.com | Bill McKibben

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I’m Very Glad That New York Has Ranked-Choice Voting

3 weeks ago | thenation.com | Bill McKibben

Environment / June 3, 2025 I’m Very Glad That New York Has Ranked-Choice VotingI can vote for two candidates—Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander—who’ve made climate a cornerstone of their campaigns, with real hopes that one or the other will prevail.
Meanwhile, back in the real world

3 weeks ago | billmckibben.substack.com | Bill McKibben

It’s possible to become entirely transfixed by the weirdo show every underway in DC. Today’s installments: Donald Trump declares that Joe Biden was killed in 2020 and replaced by a robot clone, Donald Trump won’t read his intelligence briefings so they’re going to be turned into a private tv show with Fox-like anchors, Donald Trump…. We need to pay some attention to the madness, and I hope that everyone is registered to take part in a demonstration on No Kings Day June 14 .
Darn it, that's just not true

1 month ago | billmckibben.substack.com | Bill McKibben

Trying to keep up with the perfidy of the Trump administration is a mug’s game, but sometimes I’m a mug. And so, in a small effort to get out ahead of these deceits before they become conventional wisdom, I’m going to write about two statements from the administration, one yesterday and one more than a month old that I missed. I just sent you a long newsletter a couple of days ago, and I don’t want to overburden you with stuff (who needs more outrage anyway?) so I’ll try to be brief.
Trump and His Feral Crew of Wreckers Want to Kill America’s Future | Common Dreams

1 month ago | commondreams.org | Bill McKibben

Credit where due: I am ever impressed by the feral energy of U.S. President Donald Trump and his crew, who are able to do an extraordinary amount of damage every single damned day. And somehow their energetic cruelty seems to drain my own reserves: I want to stay in bed. But we fight as best we can, and so here’s my assessment of one dire day, and more importantly what we still might be able to do about it.
A Truly Dark Day in DC

1 month ago | billmckibben.substack.com | Bill McKibben

Credit where due: I am ever impressed by the feral energy of Trump and his crew, who are able to do an extraordinary amount of damage every single damned day. And somehow their energetic cruelty seems to drain my own reserves: I want to stay in bed. But we fight as best we can, and so here’s my assessment of this dire day, and more importantly what we still might be able to do about it. This is a free newsletter.
Trump Cares More About Growing Fossil Fuel Profits Than Shrinking Your Energy Bill | Common Dreams

1 month ago | commondreams.org | Bill McKibben

It would be tempting to dismiss U.S. President Donald Trump’s many functionaries as idiots, because many of them are. Here, for instance, is a transcript of leaked audio from a recent staff meeting led by acting Federal Emergency Management Agency director David Richardson, a man with no experience in disaster management (but who did write what the reliable Kate Aronoff described as a bad autobiographical novel with the inspired title War Story).
And We’re Off

1 month ago | resilience.org | Bill McKibben

That slightly out-of-focus picture shows the gritty, common-sense (and also transcendent) mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, with her 3-month old daughter Mira. A few minutes earlier, from the pulpit of Old North Church in Boston, she’d flipped a switch to light the green lantern you can see glowing in the steeple behind her.
Vandalism, with a plan

1 month ago | billmckibben.substack.com | Bill McKibben

It would be tempting to dismiss Trump’s many functionaries as idiots, because many of them are. Here, for instance, is a transcript of leaked audio from a recent staff meeting led by acting FEMA director David Richardson, a man with no experience in disaster management (but who did write what the reliable Kate Aronoff described as a bad autobiographical novel with the inspired title War Story).