Children and Nature Network News

Natl. Environmental Ed. Foundation launches initiative to improve children’s health: Drs. to “prescribe” outdoor activity.

Paul Smith’s College, in NY's Adirondack Mountains, offers a summer college-credit program in traditional lumberjack skills and sports.

Dramatic stories about run-ins with this plant’s toxic sap have parents running scared, but all that’s needed is a little common sense.

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.

Opportunities continue to join the conversation about America's Great Outdoors, Also in San Francisco July 23.

People ages 16-25 are invited to join the conversation about America's Great Outdoors. Next: Phila. 7/27.

Fisheries biologist and Get Outdoors Florida leader Bob Wattendorf received the FL Wildlife Federation's "Conservation Educator of the Year".

Most parents say they want their children to spend more time in nature, yet face some challenges getting them there. Some ideas to overcome them.

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.

C&NN Associate Zach Pine, a longtime creator of abstract sculptures in nature, discusses his work and its capacity for healing.

Simple tips for creating a backyard discovery zone for exploration, nature awareness and unstructured play.

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 the lands and waters that we love and reconnecting people to the outdoors must be community driven. For this reason, he has called upon senior government officials to host a series of public listening sessions in a range of locations across the country.

14-year-old Natural Leader Karen de Leon discovers the joys in nature and encourages other young people to do the same.

Listening Sessions hosted by U.S. Depts. of Interior, Agriculture to be held around the country this summer.

Scotland's Children & Nature movement is gaining support from government, parents and schools.

Nature Explore outdoor classrooms, now in 16 states, help connect children to natural world.

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.