http://blog.childrenandnature.org Field Notes from the Future: Tracking the Movement to Connect People and Nature Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:15:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.childrenandnature.org/2013/06/12/a-homegrown-park-grows-in-toronto-suzuki-foundation-launches-ambitious-do-it-ourselves-campaign/ http://blog.childrenandnature.org/2013/06/12/a-homegrown-park-grows-in-toronto-suzuki-foundation-launches-ambitious-do-it-ourselves-campaign/#comments Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:11:20 +0000 Jode Roberts http://blog.childrenandnature.org/?p=8864 In June, 2012, when David Suzuki and Richard Louv met for an on-stage conversation in Toronto, Louv praised entomologist Doug Tallamy’s idea for a Homegrown National Park. Later that year, the David Suzuki Foundation announced ambitious plans for a similar project. Whereas Tallamy imagines a coast-to-coast, backyard-based homegrown national park, the Toronto plan calls for a [...]]]> http://blog.childrenandnature.org/2013/06/12/a-homegrown-park-grows-in-toronto-suzuki-foundation-launches-ambitious-do-it-ourselves-campaign/feed/ 0 http://blog.childrenandnature.org/2013/06/10/the-following-stars-a-nighttime-adventure-and-thoughts-for-fathers-day/ http://blog.childrenandnature.org/2013/06/10/the-following-stars-a-nighttime-adventure-and-thoughts-for-fathers-day/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:43:00 +0000 Richard Louv http://blog.childrenandnature.org/?p=8750 Your child can say something to you, just one small thing, and suddenly the universe expands. One evening I walked with Matthew to the library and back. He was about to turn five. I see him then. He wears small, round glasses. He is an impatient person, eager to cut to the chase, a detector [...]]]> http://blog.childrenandnature.org/2013/06/10/the-following-stars-a-nighttime-adventure-and-thoughts-for-fathers-day/feed/ 1 http://blog.childrenandnature.org/2013/06/06/the-wisdom-of-one-place-why-we-need-to-know-where-we-are/ http://blog.childrenandnature.org/2013/06/06/the-wisdom-of-one-place-why-we-need-to-know-where-we-are/#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2013 02:22:54 +0000 Fred First http://blog.childrenandnature.org/?p=8704 My brief return to the biology classroom in 2005 after a 17-year absence brought a shocking revelation: the outdoors was an alien and unknown place to my students. Out of 120 on field trips near campus along Virginia’s New River that semester, only one student could call one of some 50 observed living things by [...]]]> http://blog.childrenandnature.org/2013/06/06/the-wisdom-of-one-place-why-we-need-to-know-where-we-are/feed/ 4 http://blog.childrenandnature.org/2013/05/27/igniting-childrens-imaginations-around-the-globe-a-new-breed-of-teacher-is-expanding-the-definition-of-green-jobs/ http://blog.childrenandnature.org/2013/05/27/igniting-childrens-imaginations-around-the-globe-a-new-breed-of-teacher-is-expanding-the-definition-of-green-jobs/#comments Mon, 27 May 2013 19:47:27 +0000 Riley Hopeman http://blog.childrenandnature.org/?p=8626 The silent solo sit is an activity I always incorporate into a teaching week. It provides each individual with the opportunity to connect with the natural world on their own. Sometimes I have students simply sit and observe and other times I take away their sense of sight so they interact with their surroundings in [...]]]> http://blog.childrenandnature.org/2013/05/27/igniting-childrens-imaginations-around-the-globe-a-new-breed-of-teacher-is-expanding-the-definition-of-green-jobs/feed/ 5 http://blog.childrenandnature.org/2013/05/26/the-botanical-city-part-one/ http://blog.childrenandnature.org/2013/05/26/the-botanical-city-part-one/#comments Sun, 26 May 2013 12:01:05 +0000 Richard Louv http://blog.childrenandnature.org/?p=8451 A couple of years ago, I had lunch with Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Cooked (his most recent) and other books about our relationship with food and nature. (Culinary hint: when dining with Michael Pollan, order what Michael Pollan orders.) We talked, in part, about how each of us came to nature from [...]]]> http://blog.childrenandnature.org/2013/05/26/the-botanical-city-part-one/feed/ 6