The current education system has been under massive critique for centuries. Statistics show that more and more people are dropping out and choosing to expand their learning through different venues. The response from within the school system is often to “problematize” the behavior of parents and children who don’t “fit in.” Instead, lets take a [...]
David de Rothschild, heir to one of the most famous fortunes in banking, is choosing to focus his life endeavors on protecting the environment through his campaign to educate youth on the impacts of climate change.
With his online portal at Adventure Ecology, David has turned his own passion for adventuring into a platform for highlighting [...]
“Children have a natural affinity towards nature. Dirt, water, plants, and small animals attract and hold children’s attention for hours, days, even a lifetime” -Natural Learning, Robin C. Moore and Herb H Wong
How do we expect children raised by computers, indoor classrooms, and blacktop playgrounds to feel any connection to the earth or care about [...]
As the old saying goes, “I used to walk 8 miles to school through the snow…” Since those good old days, obesity rates and pollution have soared. Humans have been active with their bodies for thousands of years, and now people are suffering from constant immobility in car seats and desk chairs.
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Man’s heart away from nature, becomes hard; (The Lakota) knew that lack of respect for growing living things, soon led to lack of respect for humans too. So they kept their youth close to its softening influence. Luther Standing Bear.
The Garden of Wonders integrates an outdoor garden into the curriculum of Abernathy Elementary School in [...]
Richard Louv’s popular book “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder”, published in 2005, may have the environmental importance that Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” did. In preparation for the book, Louv went across the country interviewing children, parents, and teachers, and the sad fact is that children are spending [...]
I watch my little sisters and cousins spend all their free time on the internet, and I cringe, I feel like throwing them outside!
Instead they prefer sitting indoors facing a computer screen, using instant messenger and forming an abstract online identity with Myspace or Facebook. U.S. News & World Report has estimated that youth graduating [...]
The United Nations Environmental Program and the Foundation for Global Peace and the Environment, along with other sponsors, hold an annual International Children’s Painting Competition on the Environment. This year children 6 to 14 years old were asked to create a picture with crayons, colored pencils, or water color on the theme “Climate [...]
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