Bill McKibben titled this book "Eaarth" claiming that we have drastically altered our planet to the point where we can no longer call it by its original name. The first chapter contains more than enough statistical evidence to convince skeptics that if we continue at our current trends we will be...
Two parallel stories: McKibben helping an apiarist in Vermont set up a permanent home for his beekeeping operation and learning lots about small scale agriculture and bees in particular; and McKibben deciding that he had to move beyond writing about environmental issues — and global warning in p...
Written November 11, 2009For the last few week's I've kept Bill McKibben's essay, Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks, in my purse, for reading on the subway. This is the first bit of nonfiction that's inspire...
But of course a book requires assistance from many others as well. They include my colleagues at Middlebury, including Chris Klyza, Steve Trombulak, Jon Isham, Connie Bisson, Helen Young, Pete Ryan, Becky Gould, Kathy Morse, Janet Wiseman, and crucially, Nan Jenks Jay. At Crown, my dear old frien...