Deep Economy: Bill McKibben talks with Michael Pollan

Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, written in 1989 and regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change. His new book is Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. McKibben, a scholar in residence in environmental studies at Middlebury College and the recipient of Guggenheim and Lyndhurst fellowships, was awarded the 2000 Lannan Prize in Nonfiction Writing. He is spearheading Step It Up 2007 a National Day of Climate Action--April 14th, 2007 which will have hundreds of rallies all across the country demanding: "Step it up, Congress! Cut Carbon 80% by 2050."

Michael Pollan is the author, most recently, of The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, a New York Times bestseller. His previous books are: The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World (2001); A Place of My Own (1997); and Second Nature (1991). A contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, Pollan is the recipient of numerous journalistic awards, including the James Beard Award for best magazine series in 2003 and the Reuters-I.U.C.N. 2000 Global Award for Environmental Journalism. Pollan served for many years as executive editor of Harper’s Magazine and is now the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley. His articles have been anthologized in Best American Science Writing (2004); Best American Essays (1990 and 2003) and the Norton Book of Nature Writing.

The cult of growth and globalization has seldom been so effectively, and hopefully, challenged as by Bill McKibben in Deep Economy. But this bracing tonic of a book is much more than a searing critique of the great orthodoxy of our time: McKibben also throws the bright light of his matchless journalism on the vibrant local economies now springing up like mushrooms in the shadow of the global economy. Deep Economy fills you with a hope and a sense of fresh possibility.” --Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma

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