Environmental Philosopher Satish Kumar to Lecture By Marci Janas
	Satish Kumar		MARCH 28, 2000--Satish Kumar, a leading spiritual and environmental thinker in Great Britain, will deliver a free public lecture Wednesday, April 5, at 8 P.M. His talk, "Soil, Soul and Society," will take place in the Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies' Hallock Auditorium. The Environmental Studies Program sponsors the event. Kumar's lecture will focus on the need for a new, holistic trinity that integrates the personal, the social, and the natural--one that goes beyond the great social trinity of the French Revolution (liberté, égalité, fraternité), or the personal trinity (mind, body, spirit) of the New Age movement. In Kumar's view, these trinities were "great," but they ignored the natural world. Kumar believes that a new trinity that integrates the natural, the personal, and the social--soil, soul, and society--is important for a sustainable future, a healthy planet, and a just society. Kumar's work developing innovative educational programs in ecological studies at Schumacher College in Devon, England, has attracted course participants from all over the world. His unique life experiences as an Indian philosopher have given a new dimension to education, religion, work, and politics. Since 1973 he has been editor of Resurgence, a journal of ecology, the environment, new economics, and spiritual values. His autobiography, Path without Destination, was published by William Morrow in the United States last year. The paperback edition was printed this month. In England the book is published by Green Books under the title No Destination. The environmental studies program has more information at 440-775-8747.
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