Allow me to introduce myself, and to explain a bit more about my motivations.
My name is marshall moose moore, though interestingly enough my spirit animal is an otter. I graduated from Brown University with honors in Geology-Biology all the way back in May of 2011, and I started Adventurous Habits soon after that because it aligns with my mission statement: to promote environmental sustainability through the mediums of research, education, human health, and adventure. I believe we cannot love, have compassion for, and optimize our environment until we have learned to love and optimize ourselves. When we realize our human potential and highest selves, we are impassioned to improve the environment as well. The beauty is that the two pursuits are often synergistic and therefore perfect compliments to each other. The even greater beauty is that adventure as a form of education can get us there.
That's right - we officially have an excuse to go climbing!
Some of my friends tell me they are jealous of me because I know what I want to do in my life, and I am passionate about doing it. It's true, but here’s the thing: I have no idea how to get there. I have taken a meandering path thus far, and I wouldn't trade it for the world, because in exploring I have learned. Let me explain.
My childhood was spent sneaking off on my bike to local streams and lakes in Texas and later Virginia to explore and to catch lizards and fish. In high school - feeling it was innappropriate to keep chasing lizards - I took an Environmental Science class; I liked it. In college, I quit football, took a trip through the Everglades, and my new life began. I found my calling - I want us as a people to do as every generation before us has strived to do - improve human welfare - but to now improve it in a way that doesn't destroy our habitat and resources (as well as that of our children). It seems simple enough.
Since, in my search for just how to do this, I have taken policy and environmental classes, switched majors four times, volunteered in government science agencies, been thoroughly educated in the natural sciences, taught science, and embarked on 'nature adventures' from corner to corner of the US (literally), and beyond. I learned that making change is hard for one person to do. But, I also opened my mind to new ideas and experiences, learned about myself, and most recently found that I enjoy sharing my stories as a mechanism for communicating and teaching my scientific results (or just life findings) to broader audiences.
So please, join me! Together, we can learn more about the world while becoming our highest selves in it, understand the many ways that humans are interacting with it, and design our shared and sustainable future in it.
That's right - we officially have an excuse to go climbing!
Some of my friends tell me they are jealous of me because I know what I want to do in my life, and I am passionate about doing it. It's true, but here’s the thing: I have no idea how to get there. I have taken a meandering path thus far, and I wouldn't trade it for the world, because in exploring I have learned. Let me explain.
My childhood was spent sneaking off on my bike to local streams and lakes in Texas and later Virginia to explore and to catch lizards and fish. In high school - feeling it was innappropriate to keep chasing lizards - I took an Environmental Science class; I liked it. In college, I quit football, took a trip through the Everglades, and my new life began. I found my calling - I want us as a people to do as every generation before us has strived to do - improve human welfare - but to now improve it in a way that doesn't destroy our habitat and resources (as well as that of our children). It seems simple enough.
Since, in my search for just how to do this, I have taken policy and environmental classes, switched majors four times, volunteered in government science agencies, been thoroughly educated in the natural sciences, taught science, and embarked on 'nature adventures' from corner to corner of the US (literally), and beyond. I learned that making change is hard for one person to do. But, I also opened my mind to new ideas and experiences, learned about myself, and most recently found that I enjoy sharing my stories as a mechanism for communicating and teaching my scientific results (or just life findings) to broader audiences.
So please, join me! Together, we can learn more about the world while becoming our highest selves in it, understand the many ways that humans are interacting with it, and design our shared and sustainable future in it.
