'Stitching the threads': UK book offers radical vision of a grassroots ecology

On the banks of the River Roding, authors explain how they are putting the concept of 'wild service' into practiceIt is a call to action that might just be the founding text for a new environmentalism. A forthcoming book by a diverse band of right to roam campaigners offers a radical new vision of how people can repair both the natural world and their broken relationship to it.Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You, inspired by the rare wild service tree, calls on communities to develop new relationships with the natural world, combining the hard graft of conservation science with the ceremony, gratitude and fun bound up in festivals, indigenous traditions and even church services. Continue reading...