What’s your image of an activist? Someone in a bandanna facing down a line of cops? Or chaining themselves to a tree? You may well have imagined someone young because that’s the stereotype: the student ready to take on the world - until they get bogged down in work obligations and childcare. But veteran climate justice organizer Bill McKibben thinks that cliché is due for retirement. Four years ago he co-founded Third Act, a campaigning organization in the United States for the over-60s, working on climate, democracy and racial justice. He tells host Akwe Amosu how well that bet has turned out, and about a game-changing development in renewable energy that’s giving him hope.

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Quick Links:

Bio: https://billmckibben.com/

Third Act: https://thirdact.org/

GrayPAC: Political Action committee powered by Third Act: ⁠https://graypac.org/⁠

Third Act: Ten working principles: ⁠https://thirdact.org/about/working-principles/⁠

Meet the seniors of the Rocking Chair Rebellion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNmdVI7QrlA

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