Talking Sustainability & Making Real Change with a Professor of Environmental Philosophy – an interview with Prof. Kathleen Dean Moore

This podcast covers our fascinating interview with Professor Kathleen Moore, who recently joined us as a William Evans Fellow at the University of Otago Centre for Science Communication. Before I tell you more about it and about Kathleen, all I can say is LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST – it’s a long’n, but it’s a good’n! I am Kathleen’s new biggest fan and I really really love what she has to say. She has basically converted me in my thoughts about sustainable living, cured my green fatigue and succeeded where science, logic and guilt completely failed to change me.

Her message is incredibly simple, POSITIVE and based around beauty and love of our surroundings, plus we get to serve our self-interests (in a good way). While you listen, head over here to learn a bit about Kathleen and what she does.

Her description of how we create “channels of emptiness” in our world, the explanation of how we have a sliding scale – I dig the whole message. Let’s just look after what we love and what is around us, because what is around us and what we love is good! Couldn’t be simpler, so shrug off that green guilt everyone and get to it!

Listen to our interview (approx 19 min length) with Professor Kathleen Moore here:

Kathleen is a distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University. She teaches in Philosophy of Nature, Environmental Ethics, and Critical Thinking and coordinates a course on Native American Philosophies. Kathleen has authored “Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water” and “Holdfast: At Home in the Natural world” – winner of the 2000 Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award. Her essays appear in Audubon, Field and Stream, North American Review, and many other journals.

Her areas of work include a lot of stuff I had never heard of like environmental ethics, and philosophy of nature. That said, she is pretty darn good at explaining it and it’s all in the podcast. Plus she has lots of skills and methods in thinking and writing… and she was really lovely! All round a freaking amazing opportunity to talk to her.