Windmill wunderkind William Kamkwamba is a big star on TreeHugger, at GOOD, and, it seems, everywhere else these days. When we spoke with him at the very end of his whirlwind book tour, he told us about his hopes for his home Malawi, the highlights of his US trip, and the stress that comes not with devising a new DIY well drill but with the American college search.

Sometimes, in the battle between cars and people, it…

The global grassroots climate movement is finally here, and huge.

Climate activists have been waiting two long decades to see what a global climate movement would look like. As of last Saturday, we know. And as movement mentor and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben wrote in an email after watching photos of grassroots actions around the world projecting from the giant, iconic screens of Times Square, “it looked diverse and creative and beautiful.”

Diverse? There were events on every continent…

Windmill wunderkind William Kamkwamba is a big star on TreeHugger, at GOOD, and, it seems, everywhere else these days. When we spoke with him at the very end of his whirlwind book tour, he told us about his hopes for his home Malawi, the highlights of his US trip, and the stress that comes not with devising a new DIY well drill but with the American college search.

Sometimes, in the battle between cars and people, it…

The global grassroots climate movement is finally here, and huge.

Climate activists have been waiting two long decades to see what a global climate movement would look like. As of last Saturday, we know. And as movement mentor and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben wrote in an email after watching photos of grassroots actions around the world projecting from the giant, iconic screens of Times Square, “it looked diverse and creative and beautiful.”

Diverse? There were events on every continent…