Bill McKibben wrote the first book for a general audience about climate change--The End of Nature, in 1989--and has spent most of his life working on global warming. He founded 350.org and Third Act, large-scale activist groups involved in the climate fight, and he has written extensively for the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books and a wide variety of other publications, as well as publishing 20 books. His work has been recognized with 20 honorary degrees from colleges and universities, as well as the Gandhi Peace Prize, and the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes called the "alternative Nobel", awarded in the Swedish parliament. He lives in the mountains of Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern