Bill McKibben

Born in California, Bill McKibben is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org and a 2014 recipient of the Right Livelihood Prize, an award often dubbed the “alternative Nobel.” Credited with writing the first book about climate change for a general audience, The End of Nature, McKibben is also the author of Falter, Oil and Honey, and Radio Free Vermont, among other works. Biologists acknowledged his role in the fight for climate justice when they named a new species of woodland gnat Megophthalmidia mckibbeni in his honor.