Campus Life, Climate, and Connection with Mallory McDuff

Creating a Cooler World

Mallory McDuff has been living on campus at Warren Wilson College for over 20 years. She is a professor who teaches environmental education at the college, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina. Living and teaching at the college, and raising two daughters, has given her some unique opportunities to connect with young adults, understand their thoughts and feelings about climate change and the environment, and see how those thoughts and feelings have evolved and continue to evolve.
Mallory is the author of several books that focus on climate change and the environment, including Love Your Mother: 50 States, 50 Stories, and 50 Women United for Climate Justice and Our Last Best Act: Planning for the End of Our Lives to Protect the People and Places We Love.
In this episode, we talk with Mallory about her experiences at Warren Wilson and how she helps inspire students who participate in the college's unique environmental education and community engagement programs. She describes how she became interested in environmental education and shares some advice for educators and future educations who might want to follow in her footsteps.
Mallory’s web site is https://mallorymcduff.com. You'll find information about her books, including Love Your Mother and Our Last Best Act, at https://mallorymcduff.com/books.
Mallory recently wrote an essay for Business Insider about her life on campus at Warren Wilson College. You can read that essay here.
In this article for HuffPost, Mallory describes how the climate crisis and her own parents' sudden deaths led her on yearlong journey to revise her final wishes with climate change and community in mind.
Want to learn about Third Act, the climate action group for people over sixty? Their website is https://thirdact.org/
Mallory also mentioned Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and her upcoming book, What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures. Dr. Johnson's website is https://www.ayanaelizabeth.com/.

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