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Voting tool helps everyone join conversation on America's Great Outdoors. Report to go to Pres. Obama.

C&NN member Carmen Field highlights campaigns and programs to reconnect children with nature, including Idita-Nature. Photo: Martin Renner.

Every day is filled with a chance to make a difference, today even more so with the ability to communicate in seconds through a virtual world. We can transfer money to a cause, virtually sign a petition, and spread the word to hundreds of people in our personal networks. Yet, at the end of the [...]

Great Smoky Mountains National Park part of conversation on engaging people in America's Great Outdoors

Ireland's Wild Child Day drew children into the bogs and forests.

New Madison Children's Museum features rooftop garden, other nature play in urban setting.

64% of British children play outside less than once a week and have little relationship with nature.

Leaders from C&NN and other groups provide inspiration and map for getting kids into nature

Let me introduce you to a hero of mine. Juan Martinez. He’s also my friend. Last week, I sat down with him at the Children & Nature Network Grassroots Gathering in Princeton, New Jersey and he told me a bit more about his life. Juan, now 26, was raised in South Central Los Angeles, and he grew up angry. [...]

The NPS is aggressively recruiting college students for positions that could lead to full-time jobs.

August 31 Listening Session on Health and the Great Outdoors will be held at Northwestern U School of Law in Chicago.

Denver Botanic Gardens and others worldwide are re-evaluating their role in bringing children and nature back together.

Recent research confirms that outdoor exercise improves fitness and has long-lasting health and relaxation benefits.

Research affirms the benefits of going out to play.

Senior government officials are hosting listening sessions in a range of locations around the U.S. On April 16, 2010, President Obama established the America’s Great Outdoors Initiative to develop a conservation and recreation agenda for the 21st century. The President understands that efforts for protecting and restoring lands and waters, and reconnecting people to the outdoors, must be community driven.

Five neuroscientists get into nature to explore its effects on the brain.

Me, I’ve always made nature a priority. I don’t know any other way. It’s my oxygen, my religion. My wife, Janice, isn’t too far off. Our first date was a hike and our firstborn son is named after the trail we took that fateful day. Our boys, aged 3 and 5, are growing up in [...]

UK's Bosinver Farm Cottages inspired by Nature Deficit Issue to launch nature club.

OK playground is transformed after its owners read "Last Child in the Woods".

Aspen Environmental Forum addresses Nature Deficit Disorder causes and remedies.