@article{467516,
      recid = {467516},
      author = {McKibben, Bill.},
      title = {Oil and honey : the education of an unlikely activist /},
      pages = {255 pages ;},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {"Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find  handcuffed 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. A few months later the  protesters would see their efforts rewarded when President  Obama agreed to put the project on hold. And yet McKibben  realized that this small and temporary victory was at best  a stepping-stone. With the Arctic melting, the Midwest in  drought, and Sandy scouring the Atlantic, the need for much  deeper solutions was obvious. Some of those would come at  the local level, and McKibben recounts a year he spends in  the company of a beekeeper raising his hives as part of the  growing trend toward local food. Other solutions would come  from a much larger fight against the fossil-fuel industry  as a whole. Oil and Honey is McKibben's account of these  two necessary and mutually reinforcing sides of the global  climate fight--from the absolute center of the maelstrom  and from the growing hive of small-scale local answers to  the climate crisis. With characteristic empathy and  passion, he reveals the imperative to work on both levels,  telling the story of raising one year's honey crop and  building a social movement that's still cresting"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/467516},
}