McKibben, Bill

"From environmentalist and bestselling author Bill McKibben comes a hopeful, inspiring picture book celebrating the power of human cooperation and the beauty of life on Earth"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses the history of the American Chestnut tree, and focuses on the role of scientists and plant pathologists played during the plant blight that nearly eliminated the trees from the eastern United States forests.

[Looks at how] new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience"--Amazon.

The author chronicles his personal battle to raise awareness of climate change and places his story against the larger backdrop of the global battle to combat this issue. Alongside this theme is the author's story of a Vermont beekeeper producing his own honey and how this also reflects on the condition of the global climate.

"As the host of Radio Free Vermont--'underground, underpowered, and underfoot'--seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an 'undisclosed and double-secret location.' With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson, Vern uses his radio show to advocate for a simple yet radical idea: an independent Vermont, one where the state secedes from the United States and operates under a free local economy. But for now, he and his radio show must remain untraceable, because in addition to being a lifelong Vermonter and concerned citizen, Vern Barclay is also a fugitive from the law."--.

Journalist and author Bill McKibben recounts the year during which he, in his late thirties, decided to test his body's limits in strenuous training and a series of long-distance cross-country skiing races, and during which his father's physical limits were tested by a life-threatening illness.

Examines the potential ethical consequences of human genetic engineering, arguing that limits must be set or human life will lose its meaning.

"Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed in the city jail in Washington, D.C. But that's where he spent three days in the summer of 2011, after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. A few months later the protesters would see their efforts rewarded when President Obama agreed to put the project on hold. And yet McKibben realized that this small and temporary victory was at best a stepping-stone. With the Arctic melting, the Midwest in drought, and Sandy scouring the Atlantic, the need for much deeper solutions was obvious. Some of those would come at the local level, and McKibben recounts a year he spends in the company of a beekeeper raising his hives as part of the growing trend toward local food. Other solutions would come from a much larger fight against the fossil-fuel industry as a whole. Oil and Honey is McKibben's account of these two necessary and mutually reinforcing sides of the global climate fight--from the absolute center of the maelstrom and from the growing hive of small-scale local answers to the climate crisis. With characteristic empathy and passion, he reveals the imperative to work on both levels, telling the story of raising one year's honey crop and building a social movement that's still cresting"--.