Author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet, including accounts of leading the civil disobedience to protest the Keystione XL pipeline and of spending a year in the company of a beekeeper raising his hives as part of the growing trend toward local food.

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Two lives -- Storms -- Honeybees and congressmen -- Simple -- On the road again -- the wisdom of the hive -- Adrenaline and meditation.