Bill McKibben
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Editorial: Policy and your pocketbook — War in Iran cost you $441 in just six months, Trump’s cuts to clean energy cost you more
“The folks at Energy Innovation estimate Trump’s energy policy since his second term will increase costs for the average American household by $460 per household in 2035.”
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Opinion: Expert opinions matter in the battery debate
“We pay too little attention to experts on these issues, and too much to whatever horror story shows up on Facebook.”
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McKibben to speak on new book, local activism on Nov. 12
Noted author and activist Bill McKibben will speak on Wednesday, Nov. 12 about his new book and the power of local environmental activism.
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McKibben: Solar power actually is making a difference
“We now live on a planet where the cheapest way to produce energy is to point a sheet of glass at the sun, and that’s a huge change.”
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Letter to the editor: This community is a foil for national turn of events
I confess to being discouraged by the turn of events in our nation this autumn, but it’s made me even more grateful for things close to home.
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Letter to the editor: Kudos for the solar coverage
Andy Kirkaldy’s story makes clear something that usually gets lost in these accounts: this array would replace an operation that uses huge amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus which…
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Climate Matters: Thoughts on the birth of my first grandchild
Asa Caleb Crane was born a few weeks ago. He came into the world with a full head of hair, and on first impression an undeniable charisma, a…
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Environmentalists call for low-emission electricity from socially just sources
VERMONT — The grassroots climate justice organization 350Vermont is seeking to pressure utilities to sell energy using renewable sources while producing fewer or no greenhouse gasses. The organization…
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Climate Matters: We can see clearly now
In Vermont, the scent of wood smoke on a late fall afternoon is an iconic smell. It’s not like that here today, in the first week of June…
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Letter to the editor: Ripton gathering unsurpassed
I always enjoy town meeting, but last Monday night at Ripton was truly special.
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Climate Matters: Turn off the gas, bring on the magnets
Gas stoves make people sick, why are we still using them?
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Climate Matters: A search for some delight in a difficult century
I am writing this dispatch from a southbound train, which left Middlebury at midday and is making its way — not too fast, not too slow — toward…
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Climate Matters: McKibben says transitions unleash creativity
16th in a series Most of the time I’m writing about vested interest as the key obstacle to making the energy transition. And it is — without the…
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Climate Matters: Turn to the sun, not ‘treewashing’
It pains me a bit to say, massive tree-planting campaigns are under assault as a climate tool, and that the assault seems to have some real merit.
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Letter to the editor: We’re fortunate to have Porter Hospital
I had to go into Porter Hospital this morning for what we call, I believe, a routine procedure — if I say that I had spent the previous…
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Guest editorial: ‘Offensive and shocking:’ We better come to terms with solar panels soon
This is a story of a state that’s failing to understand we’re actually in a climate emergency, and continuing with business that looks a lot like usual.