Bill McKibben
@billmckibben.bsky.social
Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
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My hymn of praise for e-bikes in the evangelical Christian magazine Sojourners.
We've invented a bicycle without hills. What could be finer?
sojo.net/magazine/jan...
We've invented a bicycle without hills. What could be finer?
sojo.net/magazine/jan...
A Hymn of Praise For E-Bikes
A no sweat, no hills, planet-loving bicycle seems pretty heavenly to me.
sojo.net
January 5, 2026 at 5:09 PM
My hymn of praise for e-bikes in the evangelical Christian magazine Sojourners.
We've invented a bicycle without hills. What could be finer?
sojo.net/magazine/jan...
We've invented a bicycle without hills. What could be finer?
sojo.net/magazine/jan...
Gorgeous Guardian account of the irreplaceable @laniritterhall.bsky.social and her work at @thirdactorg.bsky.social. She is a true north star!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘We have to go out and touch people’: how activism is tackling the US loneliness epidemic
Most people join social movements to try to change the world, but many also find community and a greater sense of purpose
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Gorgeous Guardian account of the irreplaceable @laniritterhall.bsky.social and her work at @thirdactorg.bsky.social. She is a true north star!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
My hymn of praise for e-bikes in the evangelical Christian magazine Sojourners.
We've invented a bicycle without hills. What could be finer?
sojo.net/magazine/jan...
We've invented a bicycle without hills. What could be finer?
sojo.net/magazine/jan...
A Hymn of Praise For E-Bikes
A no sweat, no hills, planet-loving bicycle seems pretty heavenly to me.
sojo.net
January 5, 2026 at 5:09 PM
My hymn of praise for e-bikes in the evangelical Christian magazine Sojourners.
We've invented a bicycle without hills. What could be finer?
sojo.net/magazine/jan...
We've invented a bicycle without hills. What could be finer?
sojo.net/magazine/jan...
A year on from the LA firestorm, this remarkable gathering taking place downtown today!
No one should have to walk the road to recovery alone, so let’s show up for survivors at With Us: Walk with fire survivors through sight, sound, and story.
Drop by any time between 12-4pm on January 4, 2026 for this family-friendly immersive experience: bit.ly/withusla
Drop by any time between 12-4pm on January 4, 2026 for this family-friendly immersive experience: bit.ly/withusla
January 4, 2026 at 2:21 PM
A year on from the LA firestorm, this remarkable gathering taking place downtown today!
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Outstanding piece from @billmckibben.bsky.social today that gives hope that we have the technology and the means to stop fighting over oil.
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possibly-its-the-oil
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possibly-its-the-oil
January 3, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Outstanding piece from @billmckibben.bsky.social today that gives hope that we have the technology and the means to stop fighting over oil.
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possibly-its-the-oil
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possibly-its-the-oil
International law won't constrain Trump's thirst for oil. But every solar panel that goes up makes crude reserves that much less valuable
billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...
Just possibly it's the oil?
A solar panel is the new peace sign
billmckibben.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:11 PM
International law won't constrain Trump's thirst for oil. But every solar panel that goes up makes crude reserves that much less valuable
billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...
The overlap between places we want to dominate and places that have oil is striking
January 3, 2026 at 12:30 PM
The overlap between places we want to dominate and places that have oil is striking
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Very sweet video by @billmckibben.bsky.social and his dog just showed up in my inbox. Feeling so lucky to be alongside them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qScf...
End of year message from Bill McKibben & his dog Birkie
YouTube video by Third Act
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December 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Very sweet video by @billmckibben.bsky.social and his dog just showed up in my inbox. Feeling so lucky to be alongside them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qScf...
I grew up in Lexington MA, telling the story of the start of the American Revolution to visitors day after day.
Watching the king's Xmas message--a mature salute to compassion, diversity, kindness, and tolerance--I find myself wondering if maybe we were a bit hasty
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciqg...
Watching the king's Xmas message--a mature salute to compassion, diversity, kindness, and tolerance--I find myself wondering if maybe we were a bit hasty
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciqg...
The King’s Christmas Broadcast 2025 - BBC
YouTube video by BBC
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December 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I grew up in Lexington MA, telling the story of the start of the American Revolution to visitors day after day.
Watching the king's Xmas message--a mature salute to compassion, diversity, kindness, and tolerance--I find myself wondering if maybe we were a bit hasty
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciqg...
Watching the king's Xmas message--a mature salute to compassion, diversity, kindness, and tolerance--I find myself wondering if maybe we were a bit hasty
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciqg...
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Just back from leading Xmas eve service at our tiny rural church.
You better believe we talked about baby Jesus having to be hustled across a border as a refugee to escape the secret police of the repulsive king, with the wise men helping.
A subversive from the manger on--merry Christmas y'all!
You better believe we talked about baby Jesus having to be hustled across a border as a refugee to escape the secret police of the repulsive king, with the wise men helping.
A subversive from the manger on--merry Christmas y'all!
December 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Just back from leading Xmas eve service at our tiny rural church.
You better believe we talked about baby Jesus having to be hustled across a border as a refugee to escape the secret police of the repulsive king, with the wise men helping.
A subversive from the manger on--merry Christmas y'all!
You better believe we talked about baby Jesus having to be hustled across a border as a refugee to escape the secret police of the repulsive king, with the wise men helping.
A subversive from the manger on--merry Christmas y'all!
Just back from leading Xmas eve service at our tiny rural church.
You better believe we talked about baby Jesus having to be hustled across a border as a refugee to escape the secret police of the repulsive king, with the wise men helping.
A subversive from the manger on--merry Christmas y'all!
You better believe we talked about baby Jesus having to be hustled across a border as a refugee to escape the secret police of the repulsive king, with the wise men helping.
A subversive from the manger on--merry Christmas y'all!
December 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Just back from leading Xmas eve service at our tiny rural church.
You better believe we talked about baby Jesus having to be hustled across a border as a refugee to escape the secret police of the repulsive king, with the wise men helping.
A subversive from the manger on--merry Christmas y'all!
You better believe we talked about baby Jesus having to be hustled across a border as a refugee to escape the secret police of the repulsive king, with the wise men helping.
A subversive from the manger on--merry Christmas y'all!
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I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I get the @billmckibben.bsky.social Substack newsletter in my email. Well, apparently, I'm also getting "Trump Store" ads. 🤮
The newsletter is worth your time, FYI. Excellent actionable reporting on the climate science fight. billmckibben.substack.com
The newsletter is worth your time, FYI. Excellent actionable reporting on the climate science fight. billmckibben.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I get the @billmckibben.bsky.social Substack newsletter in my email. Well, apparently, I'm also getting "Trump Store" ads. 🤮
The newsletter is worth your time, FYI. Excellent actionable reporting on the climate science fight. billmckibben.substack.com
The newsletter is worth your time, FYI. Excellent actionable reporting on the climate science fight. billmckibben.substack.com
Closing NCAR because it produces "climate alarmism" is like closing the fire department because it produces "fire alarmism"
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-low-poin...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-low-poin...
A low point
Things will get better....I think
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December 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Closing NCAR because it produces "climate alarmism" is like closing the fire department because it produces "fire alarmism"
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-low-poin...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-low-poin...
Two of the four people arrested taking care packages to ICE detainees were old friends, all four are heroes! Thanks Fred, Sabine, and everyone else!
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
4 arrested taking care packages to immigrant detainees at Burlington processing center
Three activists and a reverend sought to bring attention to conditions and alleged human rights violations at the facility where immigrants are held.
www.wgbh.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Two of the four people arrested taking care packages to ICE detainees were old friends, all four are heroes! Thanks Fred, Sabine, and everyone else!
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Glad to see @thirdactco.bsky.social Third Act Colorado joining the fight to help save the Natl Ctr for Atmospheric Research
December 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Glad to see @thirdactco.bsky.social Third Act Colorado joining the fight to help save the Natl Ctr for Atmospheric Research
I hear they're going to call them JeffreyBucks
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
Trump Dangles Cash Payments to Buoy Voters’ Views of the Economy
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I hear they're going to call them JeffreyBucks
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
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This is the fossil fuel industry spraypainting the lens on the security cameras while they carry off the heist
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This is the fossil fuel industry spraypainting the lens on the security cameras while they carry off the heist
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
This is the fossil fuel industry spraypainting the lens on the security cameras while they carry off the heist
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This is the fossil fuel industry spraypainting the lens on the security cameras while they carry off the heist
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
From @fieseler.bsky.social, a wild account of the guy who's spent the best of his years spreading garbage about offshore wind
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
The man behind the fall of offshore wind
David Stevenson has solar on his roof and drives a hybrid. How did he become the leader of the movement that helped Trump crush offshore wind farms?
www.canarymedia.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM
From @fieseler.bsky.social, a wild account of the guy who's spent the best of his years spreading garbage about offshore wind
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
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Literally Jesus’s parents had to flee to another country with their baby to avoid the imperial police
Here’s the birth of Christ being defiled by masked federal thugs who think terrorizing marginalized people is funny.
Homeland Security would have zip-tied the baby Jesus if its agents had been deployed in Bethlehem.
Homeland Security would have zip-tied the baby Jesus if its agents had been deployed in Bethlehem.
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Literally Jesus’s parents had to flee to another country with their baby to avoid the imperial police
We need renewable energy to take a bite out of the climate crisis but also the authoritarianism crisis
Right now we’re just doing oil piracy
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
Right now we’re just doing oil piracy
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
Pirates of the Anthropocene
"I assume we're going to keep the oil."
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We need renewable energy to take a bite out of the climate crisis but also the authoritarianism crisis
Right now we’re just doing oil piracy
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
Right now we’re just doing oil piracy
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
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Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
U.S. seizes ‘very large’ oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says
The seizure was a significant escalation in the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his country’s oil-dependent economy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
U.S. seizes ‘very large’ oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says
The seizure was a significant escalation in the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his country’s oil-dependent economy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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It would be easy, and accurate, to call 2025 the low point of human action on the climate crisis. But there was another major development that gives us reason to hope for the future, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
A Low Point of Human Inaction on Climate Change
The second Trump Administration’s assault on the environment has been as damaging as expected, but other developments this year give at least some hope for the future.
www.newyorker.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It would be easy, and accurate, to call 2025 the low point of human action on the climate crisis. But there was another major development that gives us reason to hope for the future, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
Literally Jesus’s parents had to flee to another country with their baby to avoid the imperial police
Here’s the birth of Christ being defiled by masked federal thugs who think terrorizing marginalized people is funny.
Homeland Security would have zip-tied the baby Jesus if its agents had been deployed in Bethlehem.
Homeland Security would have zip-tied the baby Jesus if its agents had been deployed in Bethlehem.
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Literally Jesus’s parents had to flee to another country with their baby to avoid the imperial police