Take Heart: Encouragement for Earth’’s Weary Lovers

Kathleen Dean Moore is a philosopher, environmental advocate, and award-winning nature writer, best known for books that celebrate rivers and shores, like Riverwalking and Wild Comfort. Her concern about climate change and ecosystem collapse led her to turn her writing to the defense of the wild, reeling world she cares so much about. She writes from Corvallis, Oregon, and from a cabin in southeast Alaska.

Bob Haverluck is an artist and storyteller who works with community groups using the arts to help engage issues of conflict and violence against the Earth and her creatures. His drawings have appeared in Harpers, New Statesman, and other publications. A former adjunct professor at the University of Winnipeg and a current mentor with the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation in Montreal, Bob teaches with an eye to the role of comedy in social change. His most recent book is When God Was Flesh and Wild: Stories in Defence of the Earth.