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EVENTS Sierra Club Trains Natural LeadersBuilding Bridges to the Outdoors will be holding its second year of weeklong Environmental Leadership trainings this week in conjunction with the Sierra Student Coalition (SSC). The leadership training program introduces, inspires and educates youth, especially under-represented minorities, about the significant and contemporary environmental issues facing their local communities. [+] read more |
IN THE NEWS "Lost in the Great Indoors" the Washington Post's front page report on today's childrenGiving the children and nature movement front page coverage, the Washington Post reported on parents, advocacy groups, and the launch of a 20 million dollar campaign to fund initiatives to reconnect children and nature. [+] read more Visit site to get money in the USA Texas.  The Conservation Fund Launches The National Forum On Children And NatureOver 30 of the nation’s most influential public and private leaders—including governors, mayors, CEOs, educators, and clergy—will participate in the launch this week of an ambitious effort to reconnect kids with nature. This new initiative, the National Forum on Children and Nature, will find and fund 20 projects across the country that demonstrate how kids can rediscover nature, through education, health, the media and the built environment. [+] read more |
| ARCHIVE 2006 - 2007 Orion Magazine March/April issue features the Children & Nature Movement [+] Read more in a new article on Orion Online [+] Join Orion readers and post comments here NWF Launches "Green Hour" Web site [+] visit www.greenhour.org EdNews Interview with Cheryl Charles, Ph.D., President, Children and Nature Network. [+] read more NWF CEO, Larry Schweiger, Makes the Case for comprehensive policies to get more kids outside [+] read more The Economist reports on leaders in the Children and Nature movement [+] read more The Children & Nature movement makes front page news in USA Today's Thanksgiving Day edition. [+] Nature programs' goal: No child left inside The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) says free and unstructured play is healthy and - in fact - essential. [+] read more The World Future Society ranks nature-deficit disorder #5 [+] read the forecast |