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Worldchanging Interview: Bill McKibben

Posted on September 16, 2008

This article was written by Emily Gertz in April 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Bill McKibben is one of America's leading environmental writers. HIs first book, The End of Nature (1989), was well ahead of its time as the first book for a general audience about global warming. In his latest, Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, McKibben examines the unintended and intertwined consequences of both fossil fuel dependence and economic globalization. Strengthening local economies is essential to creating an ecologica...

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