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The Safe Routes to School National Partnership, to which C&NN belongs, has issued two new resource guides:  Getting Students Active through Safe Routes to School: Policies and Action Steps for Education Policymakers and Professionals and Implementing Safe Routes to School in Low-Income Schools and Communities: A Resource Guide for Volunteers and Professionals. Getting Students Active provides [...]

US Departments of Labor, Interior and Agriculture jointly announce new federal partnership to provide support for youth to work in the great outdoors

June is the nation’s Great Outdoors month, proclaimed by the President of the United States and all 50 state governors. The Children & Nature Network (C&NN) is among those organizations celebrating and supporting Great Outdoors month. C&NN has chosen the occasion to announce the release of two major studies it commissioned with funding support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Department of Defense host the second a series of public listening session's on conservation, recreation, and reconnecting people to the outdoors in Los Angeles. Other cities in the series include D.C., Seattle, Annapolis, and Charleston.

New research reveals that bacteria in the soil not only lowers depression and anxiety but can also increase learning.

C&NN Board Member and longtime youth leader Brother Yusuf Burgess brings urban youth to nature.

The National Park Service kicks off "Let’s Move Outside" Junior Ranger program in 20 parks as part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s "Let's Move Outdoors" campaign to end childhood obesity within a generation.

Summer is upon us and, for many families, that means a traditional camp experience for their children. But even the camp experience has changed over the years to reflect what Richard Louv noted in 2005’s Last Child in the Woods as a “shift in our relationship to the natural world … even in settings that [...]

C&NN Natural Leaders will be at the Outdoor Nation Youth Summit and Festival June 19 & 20 in New York's Central Park.

C&NN's Howard Frumkin and other presenters at the 18th national conference of the Congress for the New Urbanism cited data showing an association between development patterns, transportation patterns, and public health.

Sales from custom Montana license plates will help MT organizations dedicated to getting children into nature.

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has declared June to be "Leave No Child Inside" Month.

How one book sparked a movement to reconnect today’s young people with the outdoors.

A new paperback edition of Richard Louv's New York Times bestseller, Last Child in the Woods was recently published in the UK.

New outdoor nature center in University City, N.C., gives kids an unusual place to play, reflects national trend for parks.

President Barack Obama and nearly all of America’s governors have proclaimed June as Great Outdoors Month.

C&NN's Richard Louv addresses Nature Deficit Disorder while in the UK.

A broad coalition, including C&NN, has formed to ally with Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign to eradicate childhood obesity and encourage unstructured play in nature.

Richard Louv, Sir David Attenborough and others respond to the recent survey by Natural England that revealed that 24 % of children visit a local patch of green weekly, whereas 53 % of their parents did.

June is a special time to celebrate America’s Great Outdoors. Presidential recognition of Great Outdoors Week was begun in 1997 by then-President Clinton and has continued ever since.