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  We Are Better Together

  From environmentalist and bestselling author Bill McKibben comes a hopeful, inspiring picture book celebrating the power of human cooperation and the beauty of life on Earth, beautifully illustrated by artist Stevie Lewis. When we work together, we humans can do incredible things. We share the responsibility to address climate change and our changing planet. It is critical that we act collectively to protect our beautiful, fragile world. Renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben and the incredibly talented artist Stevie Lewis team up to bring this gorgeous picture book to life. Celebrating the amazing things people can do, it's an inspiring message of hope.

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  Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 347min

  In his late 30s, celebrated essayist, journalist, and author Bill McKibben - never much of an athlete - decided the time had come for him to really test his body. Cross-country skiing his challenge of choice, he lived the fantasy of many amateur athletes and trained - with the help of a coach/guru - nearly full-time, putting in hours and miles typical of an Olympic hopeful. For one vigorous year, which would culminate in a series of grueling, long-distance races, McKibben experienced his body's rhythms and possibilities as never before. But the year also brought tragedy to McKibben and his family as his father developed a life-threatening illness. Forcing a deeper exploration of both body and spirit, the arrival of this illness transforms McKibben's action-packed memoir into a moving account of two men coming to terms with the limits of the flesh. The author of such impassioned and groundbreaking books as The End of Nature and The Age of Missing Information, Bill McKibben is re-nowned as an original thinker. Here, writing with his trademark honesty and insight, he once again creates a provocative and unconventional book, a fascinating portrait of a man in midlife pushing his body and soul to the breaking point - and learning some unexpected truths along the way. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rex Anderson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014483/bk_adbl_014483_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 552min

  Best-selling 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 30 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 joined 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. With empathy and passion he makes the case for a renewed commitment on both levels, 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. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin T. Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001641/bk_aren_001641_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon (eBook, ePUB)

  Bill McKibben-award-winning author, activist, educator-is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity."Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing-knowing-that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He sang "Kumbaya" at church. And with the remarkable rise of suburbia, he assumed that all Americans would share in the wealth.But fifty years later, he finds himself in an increasingly doubtful nation strained by bleak racial and economic inequality, on a planet whose future is in peril.And he is curious: What the hell happened?In this revelatory cri de coeur, McKibben digs deep into our history (and his own well-meaning but not all-seeing past) and into the latest scholarship on race and inequality in America, on the rise of the religious right, and on our environmental crisis to explain how we got to this point. He finds that he is not without hope. And he wonders if any of that trinity of his youth-the flag, the cross, and the station wagon-could, or should, be reclaimed in the fight for a fairer future.

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  The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened

  Bill McKibben-award-winning author, activist, educator-is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing-knowing-that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He sang "Kumbaya" at church. And with the remarkable rise of suburbia, he assumed that all Americans would share in the wealth. But fifty years later, he finds himself in an increasingly doubtful nation strained by bleak racial and economic inequality, on a planet whose future is in peril. And he is curious: What the hell happened? In this revelatory cri de coeur, McKibben digs deep into our history (and his own well-meaning but not all-seeing past) and into the latest scholarship on race and inequality in America, on the rise of the religious right, and on our environmental crisis to explain how we got to this point. He finds that he is not without hope. And he wonders if any of that trinity of his youth-the flag, the cross, and the station wagon-could, or should, be reclaimed in the fight for a fairer future.

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  Enough: Setting Limits on Human Genetic Technology, Hörbuch, Digital, 288min

  We are on the verge of crossing a line - from born to made, from created to built. Sometimes in the next few years, a scientist will reprogram a human egg or sperm cell, spawning a genetic change that will be passed down into eternity. We are sleepwalking toward the future, and it's time to open our eyes. Bill McKibben, examines the dangers inherent in an array of technologies that threaten not just our survival, but our identity. Imagine a future where lab workers can reprogram human embryos to make our children "smarter" or "more sociable" or "happier." Some researchers are doing more than imagining this future; they've begun to plan for a not-very-distant day when people merge with machines to create a "posthuman" world. Enough examines such possibilities, and explains how we can avoid their worst consequences while still enjoying the fruits of our new scientific understandings. McKibben argues that only by staying human can we find true meaning in our lives. A warning against the gravest dangers humans have ever faced, this wise and eloquent work is also a passionate defense of the world we were born into, and a celebration of our ability to say, "Enough." Language: English. Narrator: Bill McKibben. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/000286/bk_aren_000286_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Tumbles: The Turtle That Got Glued Back Together , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 21min

  An innocent little turtle is discovered in the park by two children. His shell has been cracked as a result of a tumble off a bridge! Thus begins this sweet story of how the turtle is not only nursed back to health, but becomes an inspiration to the children and their three pets. Your children will gain a valuable lesson about the care of animals in the wild, and about the value of every individual. The audiobook production includes music and sound effects and is narrated by Chuck McKibben, formerly of The Mel Blanc Studio in Hollywood. Playing time is about 20 minutes, making it perfect as a bedtime story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chuck McKibben. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/028509/bk_acx0_028509_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  God, Improv, and the Art of Living , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 315min

  We are all improvisers!The principle of "yes, and..." in improvisational theater has produced a lot of great comedy. But it also offers an invigo­rating approach to life in general, and the spiritual life in particular. From Moses to Ruth, to Jesus, scripture is full of people boldly saying "yes, and..." as they accept what life throws their way and build upon it.Pastor, speaker, and improv aficionada MaryAnn McKibben Dana here blends scripture, psychology, theology, and pop culture in a wise, funny, down-to-earth guide to improv as a practice for life. Offering concrete spiritual wisdom in the form of seven improvi­sational principles, this audiobook will help readers become more awake, creative, resilient, and ready to play - even (and perhaps especially) when life doesn't go according to plan."We are all improvisers", says McKibben Dana, "whether we realize it or not. We improvise in order to get through the day. We improvise when life surprises us. We do it without even thinking about it. This book will help you do it better". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amy McFadden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/159979/bk_acx0_159979_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Walden

  Walden ab 10.99 € als epub eBook: Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Philosophie,

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  Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 353min

  We've got a long history of resistance in Vermont, and this book is testimony to that fact. (Bernie Sanders) A book that's also the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic. As the host of Radio Free Vermont - "underground, underpowered, and underfoot" - 72-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an "undisclosed and double-secret location". With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson, Vern uses his radio show to advocate for a simple yet radical idea: an independent Vermont, one where the state secedes from the United States and operates under a free local economy. But for now, he and his radio show must remain untraceable, because in addition to being a lifelong Vermonter and concerned citizen, Vern Barclay is also a fugitive from the law. In Radio Free Vermont, Bill McKibben entertains and expands upon an idea that's become more popular than ever - seceding from the United States. Along with Vern and Perry, McKibben imagines an eccentric group of activists who carry out their own version of guerilla warfare, which includes dismissing local middle school children early in honor of "Ethan Allen Day" and hijacking a Coors Light truck and replacing the stock with local brew. Witty, biting, and terrifyingly timely, Radio Free Vermont is Bill McKibben's fictional response to the burgeoning resistance movement.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Danny Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003342/bk_peng_003342_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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