125:, the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word, which she directed for 10 years. As director, she co-founded an ancillary program, the Long-Term Ecological Reflections Project at the H.J. Andrews Forest, in the Oregon Cascades. Long interested in interdisciplinary environmental education, Moore designed Oregon State's Master of Arts in Environmental Arts and Humanities. But her growing concern for the perils of global warming led her to leave the university in 2013 to devote all her time to writing and speaking about the moral urgency of climate action.
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