
This year's prestigious Sofie Prize winner, Bill McKibben, speaking at the International Day of Climate Action in Times Square, NYC. (Photo: Mat McDermott/ Flickr)
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This year's prestigious Sofie Prize winner, Bill McKibben, speaking at the International Day of Climate Action in Times Square, NYC. (Photo: Mat McDermott/ Flickr)
Bill McKibben--noted environmentalist, scholar, founder of 350.org and champion behind the growing campaign to divest from fossil fuels--has been awarded Norway's prestigious Sofie Prize for his commitment to the fight to preserve a sustainable planet.
"This planet desperately needs a global mobilizer for change," the committee writes, adding, "in only a few years [McKibben] has demonstrated an enormous mobilizing force."
The press statement continues:
As an activist he is pioneering new methods of social protests, using among others Internet-enabled organizing strategies to increase the intensity of political activity. Fighting immensely powerful interests McKibben has shown that mobilization for change is possible. This brings hope.
This year's Sophie Prize Winner underlines, however, that fast collective action is urgently needed to avoid an increase in temperature that our civilization can't handle.
Along with the honor, McKibben was awarded $100,000 by the Norwegian cultural committee. The Sophie Prize was created in 1997 to "reward efforts for a sustainable future."
The committee sites numerous campaigns McKibben has spearheaded to promote political change:
"Climate change is the single biggest thing humans have ever done on this planet," said McKibben. "The only thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it."
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Bill McKibben--noted environmentalist, scholar, founder of 350.org and champion behind the growing campaign to divest from fossil fuels--has been awarded Norway's prestigious Sofie Prize for his commitment to the fight to preserve a sustainable planet.
"This planet desperately needs a global mobilizer for change," the committee writes, adding, "in only a few years [McKibben] has demonstrated an enormous mobilizing force."
The press statement continues:
As an activist he is pioneering new methods of social protests, using among others Internet-enabled organizing strategies to increase the intensity of political activity. Fighting immensely powerful interests McKibben has shown that mobilization for change is possible. This brings hope.
This year's Sophie Prize Winner underlines, however, that fast collective action is urgently needed to avoid an increase in temperature that our civilization can't handle.
Along with the honor, McKibben was awarded $100,000 by the Norwegian cultural committee. The Sophie Prize was created in 1997 to "reward efforts for a sustainable future."
The committee sites numerous campaigns McKibben has spearheaded to promote political change:
"Climate change is the single biggest thing humans have ever done on this planet," said McKibben. "The only thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it."
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Bill McKibben--noted environmentalist, scholar, founder of 350.org and champion behind the growing campaign to divest from fossil fuels--has been awarded Norway's prestigious Sofie Prize for his commitment to the fight to preserve a sustainable planet.
"This planet desperately needs a global mobilizer for change," the committee writes, adding, "in only a few years [McKibben] has demonstrated an enormous mobilizing force."
The press statement continues:
As an activist he is pioneering new methods of social protests, using among others Internet-enabled organizing strategies to increase the intensity of political activity. Fighting immensely powerful interests McKibben has shown that mobilization for change is possible. This brings hope.
This year's Sophie Prize Winner underlines, however, that fast collective action is urgently needed to avoid an increase in temperature that our civilization can't handle.
Along with the honor, McKibben was awarded $100,000 by the Norwegian cultural committee. The Sophie Prize was created in 1997 to "reward efforts for a sustainable future."
The committee sites numerous campaigns McKibben has spearheaded to promote political change:
"Climate change is the single biggest thing humans have ever done on this planet," said McKibben. "The only thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it."
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