ONLINE: What is the right relationship between humans and forests in the 21st century? This six-week online course invites participants to explore that question through the lens of literature, history, culture and science. Inspired by Aldo Leopold’s classic essay The Land Ethic and Wendell Berry’s It All Turns on Affection, we’ll examine whether Leopold’s ideas still serve us, and how a forest ethic might expand beyond a land ethic. Through weekly lectures and guided discussions, we’ll consider how temperate forests in the Northern Hemisphere shape, and are shaped by, our values and choices. Participants will draw on course materials to begin developing their own vision of an ethical relationship with forests. Please read both essays before the first class. | Facilitated discussion.
Max enrollment: 15.
Class sessions are recorded.
