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The wounds that our way of life has inflicted on the 
 land, the air and the great diversity of life on Earth have brought 
 us to a pivotal point in human history. We are called to find new 
 answers to the foundational questions of the human condition: What 
 is a human being? What is the relation of humans to the Earth? How, 
 then, shall we live? The search for a new worldview will be -- it 
 must be -- the greatest exercise of the human imagination the world 
 has ever seen. What is (and what is not) our work in this time and this place?

Using her recent co-authored book, "In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens," Kathleen Dean Moore will discuss how the sciences, humanities, and arts can work together to re-imagine the way we live in a world of catastrophe and renewal.

Kathleen Dean Moore is best known for her award-winning books about our cultural and spiritual connections to the wet, wild world: "Riverwalking," "Holdfast" and "The Pine Island Paradox." She is a winner of the Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Dr. Moore is distinguished professor of philosophy at Oregon State University, where she directs the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word and teaches classes in Environmental Ethics.