So far we’re showing that, at least for a while, you can stand up to the money that Big Oil brings to the table if you bring your own currency to the table: passion, spirit, creativity, and the willingness of people to submit their bodies for the cause. Two years later, they still don’t have their permit. But we went ahead anyway there’s too much carbon in these tar sands.

It’s a done deal.” Literally every insider, everyone in the know, said that. When we started, everybody said, “Don’t even bother.

Looking back, what did protesting the Keystone XL pipeline accomplish? It took me awhile to get used to the idea that if I had my beekeeper’s veil and things on I didn’t have to worry. I was once very badly stung-not by honeybees, but by yellow jackets. I hadn’t thought of that, but I do think some people have an aversion. Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build. Is it possible that some people write off the bee issue due to memories of being stung? If something’s going wrong with them, it’s a pretty good sign that something’s going wrong out in that environment. We need bees for pollination, and bees go out into the field all day and forage. Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist, by Bill McKibben. Includes a bonus interview with the author.Why have bees become such a key issue for environmentalists? William Ernest McKibben (born December 8, 1960) is an American environmentalist, author.

With empathy and passion he makes the case for a renewed commitment on both levels, telling the story of raising one year’s honey crop and building a social movement that’s still cresting. Oil and Honey is McKibben's account of these two necessary and mutually reinforcing sides of the global climate fight - from the center of the maelstrom and from the growing hive of small-scale local answers. Other solutions would come from a much larger fight against the fossil-fuel industry as a whole. Some of those would come at the local level, where McKibben joined forces with a Vermont beekeeper raising his hives as part of the growing trend toward local food. With the Arctic melting, the Midwest in drought, and Irene scouring the Atlantic, McKibben recognized that action was needed if solutions were to be found. Best-selling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet.īill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found himself in the summer of 2011 after leading the largest civil disobedience in 30 years, protesting the Keystone XL pipeline in front of the White House.

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