Bill McKibben is one of the most prominent environmental authors alive, but his life reveals a remarkable transformation from a comfortable magazine writer into a heavily targeted global organizer. This deep dive traces his path from the Ivy League to the wilderness and into a Washington jail cell.

After his 1989 book introduced the public to a changing climate, McKibben discovered that information alone does not equal action. We follow his shift from observer to agitator, building mass movements, coordinating worldwide demonstrations, and embracing nonviolent civil disobedience.

• His immersive journalism, including living on the streets to report on homelessness
• Founding 350.org around the safe atmospheric carbon limit
• Coordinating thousands of simultaneous rallies across 181 countries
• Sit-ins, arrests, and pipeline protests as calculated strategy
• Launching Third Act and the 3.5 percent rule for systemic change