Our Top Story this month: Bill McKibben: The Valley Is a Region Vulnerable to Global Warming By Vic Bedoian Bill McKibben has been touring the country to help activate more people on the issue of climate change in general and in particular to generate opposition to the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline. He was in Fresno on Sept. 14 to talk about the importance of grassroots organizing in that effort. Before speaking to an enthusiastic standing-room-only crowd at the Fresno City College auditorium, he sat down in the plaza next door for an interview. Remarkably, even though global warming and its multifaceted and severe impacts on the Valley are not exactly an arcane subject, no other local media bothered to attend the press briefing. Only photographer Richard Iyall and I were there. McKibben is an award-winning journalist, author and teacher at Middlebury College in Vermont. Along with a small group of concerned colleagues he jump-started 350.org, which has become the cutting-edge organization for the grassroots movement on global warming and climate change that is gaining traction the world around. They have already coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries working with local groups using their Web site as the major organizing tool. In the process, he is the recipient of the 2013 Ghandi Peace Prize, the first environmental activist to do so. McKibben’s latest book is Oil and Honey focusing on the personal and global story of building and preserving a sustainable planet. Read more: fresnoalliance/wordpress/?p=8420
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:41:52 +0000
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