What are the coordinates of an ethical understanding large enough to comprehend the rights of nature, successive layers of human culture, and modern societal interests? This talk will attempt to take an inclusive view of environmental ethics and ask if the same wilderness that once made Emerson and the philosophers “freemen of the forest laws” binds us as well with moral obligations as citizens of the Republic of Nature? Presented by Dr. Marianne Patinelli-Dubay, director of Environmental Philosophy Program at the SUNY College of Environmental Science. Please visit the Thoreau Society website (postponed).