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Kathleen’s favorite campsite, engulfed in flames from the 2003 Davis Lake fire.

We are Climate Activists. Don’t Call Us Grannies.

by | Feb 15, 2024

We are climate activists. Don’t call us Grannies. An Inside Climate News article about the strong, experienced women in the climate struggle calls us “Grannies.” I strenuously object. We are white-haired women who are doing everything we can to stop the suicidal cruelty of the fossil-fuel economy. We are experienced. We are courageous. We are smart and sometimes even wise. We are truth-tellers. We are, in my town, about the only ones who are showing up for the struggle…

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We Are the Spotters

by | Nov 20, 2022

A spotter? Yes, a spotter is the person who stands at the edge of the berry field while the crop-dusters come in low, spraying poison. Her job was to wave her arms so the spray plane would sweep around and head the other way. Pass after pass after pass, she waved her arms as the crop-duster buzzed her, glazing her with pesticides…

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Climate Change Calls “All Hands”

by | Nov 20, 2022

When a fearsome storm is bearing down on a great ship - the first winds shuddering in the sails, the first waves burying the bowsprit, sullen clouds obscuring the horizon - the captain shouts the order. "All hands on deck." Every sailor knows what that means. Each...

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Four Fallacies and a Big Mistake

by | Nov 20, 2022

In their arguments against divesting from fossil fuels, Ivy League presidents offer a lesson in sophistry. It pains this old logic professor to read university officials' arguments against divesting from fossil fuels -- not because their refusal to divest is...

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News Archive

Hear Kathleen talk about a human-rights strategy to combat climate wrongs, podcast on the New Books Network, available here.

And you’ll like the new book, The Heart of the Wild, with Kathleen’s essay, “In Feral Land is the Preservation of the World.”

Hear Kathleen talk about a human-rights strategy to combat climate wrongs, podcast on the New Books Network, available here.

Announcing the release of Animal Dignity, with Kathleen’s essay “The Heart of the Scorpion,” about the moral power of the will to live.

On a new Spring Creek podcast, Kathleen tells a story about how W.S. Merwin’s prose poem, “Unchopping a Tree,” helped her and her students think through the question that possesses us all: How can one heart hold both a deep love for the natural world and the knowledge that it is being destroyed? https://open.spotify.com/episode/7hdWDdYefKdTcvToooDHHo

Read Kathleen’s new blog that rails against calling experienced women climate activists ‘Grannies.’

If you are looking for a holiday gift for your nature-loving and/or environmental-activist friends, please think of Kathleen’s Take Heart: Encouragement for Earth’s Weary Lovers.

Join Kathleen Moore and Charles Goodrich in a discussion of his new novel, Weave Me a Crooked Basket, Monday, November 20 @ 7pm (PT) Powell’s City of Books

Here’s Kathleen’s hard-hitting article, “Clean Natural Gas is a Dirty Deception.”

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment just published Kathleen’s “The perilous and important art of definition: the case of the old-growth forest.” Read it here.

Earth’s Wild Music is a Chicago Review of Books Must-Read Book of the Month. Read the review here.

Read Kathleen’s new article, “How Big Oil is Manipulating How You Think about Climate Change,’ in Salon.com.

Kathleen and her colleague, Michael P. Nelson, apologize to the world for the damage done by racist and cruel Enlightenment philosophies. See “Did Philosophy Ruin the Earth? A philosopher’s letter of apology to the world” in Salon. 

Hear Kathleen speak about “Gratitude as a Way of Life” in the Natural History Institute’s Reciprocal Healing series.

Hear a new composition for English horn, based on Kathleen’s glacier essay, “The Sound of Mountains Melting,” from Earth’s Wild Music, written and performed by Chris Zatarain.

Three of Kathleen’s essays – “Swallows, Falling,” “Common Murre,” and “Dawn Chorus” are published in a new collection that celebrates birds, Dawn Songs, edited by Jamie K. Reaser and J. Drew Lanham.