Structural, building envelope and forensic engineer working to reduce operational and embodied carbon from buildings, climate activist, hypermiler/EV owner, Unitarian Universalist, Monarch midwife, husband and father.
Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
Writer/editor/instructor encouraging other writers to write. Publishers Weekly book reviewer, syracuse.com theater reviewer, Syracuse NY travel guidebook writer. Dwell in the woods, happiest near rivers, lakes, the sea. Still working on that first novel.
climate scientist
posts 100% my own
🇨🇦 is my home
distinguished professor & chair, Texas Tech
chief scientist, The Nature Conservancy
board member, Smithsonian NMNH
alum, UToronto and UIUC
author, Saving Us