It is a great pleasure today to have with me Susan Griffin, such an accomplished women, author of over 20 books, who is esteemed for her innovative thought and creative literary stule.  A leading feminist and environmental thinker, she has addressed a wide range of social and political questions, including nuclear weapons, rape, , and democracy.  Her classic work, Woman and Nature, the focus today, is said to have inspired eco-feminism and today's conversation.  In her words...."Overall it reveals and challenges the assumption that shaped the culture, thought, politics and practices of the West, the fundamental idea that Nature is inferior to (white) men, and that women, people of color, being closer to nature, are also inferior. That nature or matter is separate from and opposed to spirit. (And therefore women and people of color are more sensual, emotional and thus intellectually and spiritually inferior).  Additionally the book is driven by a very different assumption--that spirit and matter are not separate, that nature has intelligence and meaning, that we are part of nature and all equal."  Never has a subject been so relevent.  Tune in and enjoy!