Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, including the first account of global warming for a general audience, The End of Nature. A scholar in residence at Middlebury College, he is a cofounder of 350.org and has organized 1,400 demonstrations across the United States to demand action on climate change.
The question with climate change is this: are we facing a problem or A Problem? If global warming is just one issue on a long list of problems we have to address, we need one kind of strategy. If global warming is the biggest problem humans have ever caused and the sole civilization-challenging trial the modern world has ever faced, the call is different.
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The Stanford Social Innovation Review is written for and by social change leaders in the nonprofit, business, and government sectors. Sample articles of particular interest to readers of What Matters are available below.
by Ben Hecht. Living Cities is working with five US municipalities to develop an ecosystem for solving urban problems.
by Clayton M. Christensen, Shuman Talukdar, Richard Alton, and Michael B. Horn. Unless clean tech follows well-established rules of innovation and commercialization, the industry’s promise to provide sustainable sources of energy will fail.