Author, professor and cultural geographer Dr. Carolyn Finney will discuss "This Patch of Soil: Race, Nature and Stories of Future Belonging" at the 2015 Earth Day Lecture at Pacific Lutheran University. Finney's discussion will center on how the discussion of environmental and racial issues is grounded in the experience of a particular place. Dr. Kevin O'Brien, chair of the Environmental Studies program, says he expects Finney to also talk about: how the relationship between race and nature have been defined in the past, and the possibility of "future belonging," creating communities of a genuine relationship between human communities and between people and the Earth.

EARTH DAY LECTURE, 7:30 p.m., Scandinavian Cultural Center, Pacific Lutheran University, 122nd Street and Park Avenue South, Tacoma, free admission, 253.535.7532