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

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News

January 17, 2012

The Liberal Artist

The Liberal Artist explores Climate Change – and the Morals Behind It in a new interview with Kathleen Dean Moore. Have a read and see what’s the Moral Ground behind the Keystone Pipeline, the UN climate talks in Durban, and climate change in an election year.

January 11, 2012

Essay Contest Invitation

What inspires your sense of responsibility? The West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum is sponsoring a  bold and exciting essay contest that invites participants to write a mini Moral Ground essay in 1,500 words or less on their everyday commitment to sustainability.

We invite you to check out the contest guidelines…

January 4, 2012

What Is Morally Required?

What does a student being led away by guards at the UN climate change talks have to do with Moral Ground? Read Michael Nelson and Kathleen Dean Moore’s compelling essay What Is Morally Required to find out how one person can raise the consciousness of a nation.

December 20, 2011

What Kind of Love Is This?

In a lyrical interruption to the holiday craze, Kathleen Dean Moore gives us a beautiful reminder of our challenge to create lasting ways of life in The Orion Blog.

 

Scroll down to hear her read the essay aloud.

 

 

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…