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Oil and Honey

The Education of an Unlikely Activist

by Bill McKibben
Kevin T. Collins
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Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet
Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found himself in the summer of 2011 after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years, protesting the Keystone XL pipeline in front of the White House.
With the Arctic melting, the Midwest in drought, and Irene scouring the Atlantic, McKibben recognized that action was needed if solutions were to be found. Some of those would come at the local level, where McKibben joins forces with a Vermont beekeeper raising his hives as part of the growing trend toward local food. Other solutions would come from a much larger fight against the fossil-fuel industry as a whole.
Oil and Honey is McKibben's account of these two necessary and mutually reinforcing sides of the global climate fight—from the center of the maelstrom and from the growing hive of small-scale local answers to climate change. With empathy and passion he makes the case for a renewed commitment on both levels of the fight to stop global warming, telling the story of raising one year's honey crop and building a social movement that's still cresting.
Includes a bonus interview with the author

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    September 17, 2013

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      • ISBN: 9781427233479
      • File size: 265454 KB
      • Duration: 09:13:01

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 12, 2013
      Since 2007, former New Yorker writer McKibben (The End of Nature), has been at the forefront of the grassroots movement to fight global warming. With his organization, 350.org, McKibben has encouraged people all over the world to commit acts of civil disobedience in order to publicize the way climate change had affected their way of life. He has also worked to challenge the Keystone XL Pipeline project, endorsed by the Obama administration, but excoriated by environmentalists. Here, McKibben's accounts of activism are punctuated with visits to a friend's farm, and discussions of small-scale farming techniques and bee husbandry. Although he was harnessing the power of politicians, scientists, billionaires, and celebrities and speaking through the loudest megaphone of his career, McKibben kept returning to the beehives flourishing in the Vermont woods. What lessons in organization, adaptation, and endurance could be gleaned from the way bees work together and interact with their environment? Tracking the emotional and intellectual journey that took McKibben from Vermont to picket lines in Washington, D.C. to town halls, universities, and arenas, the book is a call to action and an inspiring playbook for making changeâboth locally and globallyâin the 21st century.

    • Library Journal

      Starred review from March 15, 2014

      McKibben's (Maybe One) large-scale battle against the Keystone XL pipeline and Big Oil is set against stories of a beekeeping friend in Vermont. This comparison helps drive home McKibben's message about serving humanity by both working toward legislation and in our own backyard helping to limit climate change. Listeners will learn all of the important facts about global warming and may be inspired to use a bicycle more often. Amazing facts about bees and their importance to our survival will leave listeners reconsidering whether to swat at the next one they see. Kevin T. Collins wonderfully captures the author's emotion in his narration. VERDICT Highly recommended for newbies as well as those knowledgeable about climate change. ["Moving, brief, and readable, McKibben's story will appeal to a broad range of readers," concurred the review of the Times: Holt hc, LJ 10/1/13.]--Sean Kennedy, Cleveland Marshall Coll. Law Lib.

      Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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