Barbara Mossberg Ph.D, Professor of Integrated Studies, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Cal. State Monterey Bay, poet and author, internationally known public speaker on education and liberal arts. Her current projects including writing a book on John Muirs teachings, summarized in her 2000 essay, John Muirs Beauty School: The Art and Science of Lifesaving Literacy: Or, Educating for How and Why to Love the Earth, presented at the Roots and Renewals Conference, September, 2000, by the Renvall Institute for Area and Cultural Studies, University of Helsinki. In her work, Mossbeerg integrates arts and sciences, humanities and education around cultural history and studies. Her interests are the role artists and writers play in helping society evolve to be more just, ethical, reverent, and wise. Its what she calls essential education—literacies for saving your life. She believers that only by integrating arts and sciences in how we portray the world, only by teaching relational knowledge that increases our empathy and ability to understand our interdependence, can we truly educate people for wisdom that will make our species and the earth survive. John Muirs ability to educate inspires practical learning outcomes the world needs now: a commitment to fighting for preservation of the environment.

Website: http://bartramtrail.org/