The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life

Powerful impassioned essays on living and being in the world from the bestselling author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy. For a generation Bill McKibben has been among Americas most impassioned and beloved writers on our relationship to our world and our environment. His groundbreaking book on climate change The End of Nature is considered as important as Rachel Carsons classic Silent Spring* and Deep Economy his deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding** exploration of globalization helped awaken and fuel a movement to restore local economies.. Now for the first time the best of McKibbens essays―fiery magical and infused with his uniquely soulful investigations of modern life―are collected in a single volume The Bill McKibben Reader. Whether meditating on todays golden age in radio the natural place of biting black flies in our lives or the patriotism of a grandmother fighting to get corporate money out of politics McKibben inspires us to become better caretakers of the Earth―and of one another.. *The Plain Dealer (Cleveland )**Michael Pollan