A few external events

Here's a round-up of a few external events we thought our readers might be interested in:

Gaia Foundation

• 15th Sept - The life and vision of Thomas Berry
• 15th-16th Sept - Thames Festival 2007
• 19th Sept - Gaia Evening with Andrew Kimbrell

More detail at http://www.gaiafoundation.org/

Resurgence

Four events on Climate Change:

1. 19 September - The Economics of Climate Change: What is the best economy when the climate is changing?
2. 7 November - The Politics of Climate Change: developing an all party approach to mitigate global warming
3. 16 January 2008 - Food and Climate Change: How food production and consumption needs to change
4. 2 April 2008 - Businesses and Climate Change: how corporations and businesses should adapt to the need for climate stability.

More info at: http://www.resurgence.org/events/

Jay Griffiths - Wild: An elemental journey

In this book, out in May but available for pre-order through the Wilderness Bookstore, Jay Griffiths describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire.

It is a poetic consideration of the tender connection between human society and wild lands, "Wild" is by turns funny, touching and harrowing. It is also a journey into that greatest of uncharted lands - wild mind - as Griffiths explores the words and meanings which shape our ideas and our experience of our own wildness. Part travelogue, part manifesto, this is a one-of-a-kind book from a one-of-a-kind author.

We are working with the Gaia Foundation on setting up an event focusing on this book - Keep an eye on this space.

Wilderness Foundation Trustee awarded OBE in New Year Honours list

We are delighted to announce that Edward Posey, Trustee of The Wilderness Foundation (UK), Wilderness Foundation (SA), and Wilderness Leadership School, has been awarded an OBE in the New Years Honours List.

We are thrilled that he has been recognized - it is well-deserved. Edward also serves on the board of the Gaia Foundation and they have put together a brief overview of some of the good work he has done over the years which we thought you might find inspiring.