Imogen Kandel Senior Publicist Black Inc. http://www.blackincbooks.com
Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts his
personal and global battle to preserve our planet.
Bill McKibben is not a person you’d expect to find hand-cuffed in the city jail in
Washington, D.C. But that’s where he spent three days in the summer of 2011,
after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years to protest the Keystone
XL pipeline.
From the absolute center of the activist maelstrom to the growing hive of smallscale
change makers, Oil and Honey is McKibben’s account of two necessary and
mutually reinforcing sides of the global climate fight.
With characteristic empathy and passion, McKibben recounts a year he spent in
the company of a beekeeper raising his hives as part of the growing trend toward
local food. Other climate solutions would come from a much larger fight against
the fossil-fuel industry as a whole.
As the Artic melts and global warming becomes a modern-day reality,
McKibben’s insights into the armies and individuals making a positive change
will inspire belivers and convert sceptics.
“Bill McKibben has given us something remarkable: a front row seat in the
global battle against the fossil companies that are wrecking the planet, and an
intimate glimpse into the intensely local life and landscape for which McKibben
himself is fighting.” — Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
Bill McKibben is the author of more than a dozen books,
including The End of Nature, Eaarth, and Deep Economy. He is
the founder of the environmental organisation 350.org and was
among the first to warn of the dangers of global warming.
Black Inc. is an imprint of Schwartz Media Pty Ltd ABN 75 748 797 539
ISBN: 978-1-86395-617-8 • RRP $24.99
Also available as an ebook • 272 pages
