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Bill McKibben on International Climate Action Day (video)
youtube.com - 10/26/2009
Bill McKibben on International Climate Action Day (video)
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Saturday, October 24th marked one of the largest International political actions in history. Bill McKibben, writer and the founder of 350.org, the event's o...

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350.org - Movement Dispatches and Climate News:  Bill McKibben - Live From Times Square on The Big Day, Copenhagen, and More...

green LA girl:  350.org founder Bill McKibben compares activists to antibodies

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Bill McKibben - Live From Times Square on The Big Day, Copenhagen, and More...
350.org - Movement Dispatches and Climate News — 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben got a chance to chat with Grist.org's Umbra Fisk about the scope and size of Saturday's global events, and why we've still got our work cut out for us... ...

350.org founder Bill McKibben compares activists to antibodies
green LA girl — I’m not sure why I love Bill McKibben more — because he wrote Deep Economy which made me rethink the American dream, because he founded 350.org which has galvanized environmentalists around the world — or because he comes up with extended metaphors about antibodies. Watch the Grist video of Bill, who said on the International Day of Climate Action that he feels “as if the planet’s immune system’s kind of kicking it — as if the kind of antibodies that are represented by conscious citizens are beginning to isolate the threat and trying to take some action.” ...

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