Oil and Honey Book

HardCover. Pub Date :2013-10-11 Pages: 272 Language: English Publisher: Times Books Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planetBill McKibben is not a person youd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars. but thats 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-...Read More