Senior Advisor and Co-Founder of 350.org.
From History page

350.org was founded by a group of university friends in the U.S. along with author Bill McKibben, who wrote one of the first books on global warming for the general public.

When we started organizing in 2008, we saw climate change as the most important issue facing humanity — but climate action was mired in politics and all but stalled. We didn’t know how to fix things, but we knew that one missing ingredient was a climate movement that reflected the scale of the crisis.

So we started organizing coordinated days of action that linked activists and organizations around the world, including the International Day of Climate Action in 2009, the Global Work Party in 2010, Moving Planet in 2011, and Climate Impacts Day in 2012. We held the “world’s biggest art installation” and “the most widespread day of political action in the planet’s history.” We figured that if we were going to be a movement, then we had to start acting like one.

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Today, 350.org works in almost every country in the world on campaigns like fighting coal power plants in India, stopping the Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S, and divesting public institutions everywhere from fossil fuels. All of our work leverages people power to dismantle the influence and infrastructure of the fossil fuel industry, and to develop people-centric solutions to the climate crisis.

ABOUT BILL MCKIBBEN from http://www.billmckibben.com/

BillMcKibben is an author and environmentalist who in 2014 was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel.’ His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages; he’s gone on to write a dozen more books. He is a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized twenty thousand rallies around the world in every country save North Korea, spearheaded the resistance to the Keystone Pipeline, and launched the fast-growing fossil fuel divestment movement.

The Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2013 winner of the Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize, and holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities. Foreign Policy named him to their inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers, and the Boston Globe said he was “probably America’s most important environmentalist.”

A former staff writer for the New Yorker, he writes frequently for a wide variety of publications around the world, including the New York Review of Books,National Geographic, and Rolling Stone. He lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, where he spends as much time as possible outdoors . In 2014, biologists honored him by naming a new species of woodland gnat— Megophthalmidia mckibbeni--in his honor.

the most wonderful laugh. It's contagious. Recently he was laughing during some repartee on Maher's show which I listened to a few times, and each time I began laughing out loud along with him. Not because of what was said, but because of his laughter. The audience, too.

Bernie needs to revolutionize US foreign policy: every military base becomes a hospital or a school or a therapeutic day care. Do like the Cubans did: instead of guns send medics. Half of every federal tax dollar we pay should not ever go to the pentagon.

turns the DNC Green.

(the other kind of Green).

but who's the Evil Empire (™) reps? Beelzebub, Asmodeus, Baal, Moloch, The Penguin, The Red Skull, Ultron...

when I first read this news! GO BERNIE GO!!!

And I think it's a safe bet to say he's just getting started. (C'mon California.)

Hello Nightprowlkitty and greetings to all,

Bill Black should be made head of the United States Treasury, or at the least the head of one of the financial regulatory agencies.

One may not agree with Prof. Black on the fine details of economics, but there is no question that he has an iron grasp, at least as good as that of Senator Warren, on how financial institutions manipulate the system to avoid accountability. He was a key witness before Congress in the S&L debacle in the mid 80s.

Peace and love be with you, reader.