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William Ernest "Bill" McKibben (born 1960) is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and leader of the anti-carbon campaign group 350.org. He has authored a dozen books about the environment, including his first (''The End of Nature'') in 1989 about climate change. In 2009, he led 350.org's organization of 5,200 simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. In 2010, McKibben and 350.org conceived the 10/10/10 Global Work Party, which convened more than 7,000 events in 188 countries〔http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53114s〕 as he had told a large gathering at Warren Wilson College shortly before the event. In December 2010, 350.org coordinated a planet-scale art project, with many of the 20 works visible from satellites. In 2011 and 2012 he led the environmental campaign against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project and spent three days in jail in Washington, D.C. It was one of the largest civil disobedience actions in America for decades.〔http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20110823/NEWS02/110822034/McKibben-out-jail-encourages-more-protests〕 Two weeks later he was inducted into the literature section of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.〔 He was awarded the Gandhi Peace Award in 2013.〔(Gandhi Peace award 2013 )〕 ''Foreign Policy'' magazine named him to its inaugural list of the 100 most important global thinkers in 2009 and MSN named him one of the dozen most influential men of 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MSN Lifestyle's Most Influential Men of 2009 )〕 In 2010, the ''Boston Globe'' called him "probably the nation's leading environmentalist" and ''Time'' magazine book reviewer Bryan Walsh described him as "the world's best green journalist". ==Early life== McKibben grew up in the Boston suburb of Lexington, Massachusetts, where he attended high school. His father, who was arrested in 1971 during a protest in support of Vietnam veterans against the war, had written for ''Business Week'' and was business editor at ''The Boston Globe'' in 1980. As a high school student McKibben wrote for the local paper and participated in statewide debate competitions. Entering Harvard University in 1978, he became editor of ''The Harvard Crimson''. In 1980, following the election of Ronald Reagan, he determined to dedicate his life to the environmental cause. Graduating in 1982, he worked for five years for ''The New Yorker'' as a staff writer writing much of the ''Talk of the Town'' column from 1982 to early 1987. He lived simply, sharing an apartment with David Edelstein, the film critic, and found solace in the Gospel of Matthew. He became an advocate of nonviolent resistance. While doing a story on the homeless he lived on the streets; there he met his wife, Sue Halpern, who was working as a homeless advocate. In 1987 he quit ''The New Yorker'' when its longtime editor William Shawn was forced out of his job, and soon moved to the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York where he worked as a freelance writer.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill McKibben」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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