“This is not about whales anymore.  It’s about us.” — Thomas L. Friedman

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May 15, 2012

Ever wonder what a Treevival would look like?

By Rebecca Vidra, Lecturer of Environmental Science and Policy, Duke University

 

Spring semester has come to a close at Duke University and last week, I gathered my students around the fire pit at my home to celebrate our Treevival. Our class, Conservation Ethics, was a new…

April 12, 2012

Kathleen Dean Moore at Simon Fraser University

Kathleen Dean Moore speaks at the Centre for Coastal Science and Management at Simon Fraser University. Listen to her clear and moving talk here.

April 11, 2012

Essay Contest Winners

The West Michigan Michigan Sustainable Business Forum announces the winners of its sustainability essay contest. Read the winning entries here. Congratulations to all who wrote in with stirring and insightful pieces!

April 2, 2012

EcoShock Interviews Kathleen Dean Moore

EcoShock (www.ecoshock.org) talks to “someone extraordinary” about our shared Moral Ground. Listen to Kathleen Dean Moore’s stirring interview here.

Editor Blog

January 13, 2011

How Then Shall We Live?

by Michael P. Nelson and John A. Vucetich

John A. Vucetich is a contributor to Moral Ground.  He is also a scientist – an animal ecologist to be precise.  He co-leads (with Rolf O. Peterson, one of our online contributors) the famous Isle Royale Wolf-Moose Project, the longest continuous study…

January 4, 2011

The Day Hope Died – And I Feel Fine

by Michael P. Nelson

We know the outcome. On September 10th, 2010, President Barack Obama refused to accept a solar panel from author and activist Bill McKibben and 350.org. What is now perhaps the most famous (or at least well travelled) solar panel in history was originally installed on the…

November 10, 2010

Climate Change: Love it or Deny It?

by Kathleen Dean Moore

It’s happened again.  I’m on book tour with Moral Ground, a call for moral action to avert the worst effects of a warming and degraded planet.  The audience is convinced; climate change is real, it is dangerous, it is upon us. They are empowered;…

November 10, 2010

What Shall We Give the Children?

by Kathleen Dean Moore

All week, I’ve been reporting in from the book tour for Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, writing about the questions I get and what I wish I would have said in response.  I’m going to do that again today, but…