Students will learn to understand the ethical considerations required to navigate societies relationship to the natural world. Students will lay the ground work for forming their own ethical perspective on key issues like conservation and the rights of land and nature. 
Students will learn to respectfully discuss and debate their understandings of the world with compassion for themselves and others.

I have a bacholrs in Environmental Science and Policy, and a Certificate in Planning and Land Use from Florida State University, C/O 2014. I have student environmental ethics extensively. Over the past 15 yers I have steeped myself in the writings of Emerson, Walden, Thoreau, Muir, Carson, Pollock, and others. Additionally, I have studied Zen Buddhism under the tutelage of a Zen Monk. I have apprenticed in the studies of Nature Shamanism under Native American lineage keepers. 

These experiences, along with a 15 year yoga practice and 3 years of teaching yoga guide my own ethic, and will serve as the expertise I use in guiding students through this course.