Celebrate Earth Day 2022 with some great environmental literature! With books for parents, for kids—or for the whole family, we have books to read and relish. Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv The book that launched a movement! Now time like the present to read this seminal work by Richard Louv, whoContinue reading
Move into nature, and be moved by it. As the world marks Earth Day, now is the time to revisit Richard Louv’s seminal books about the connection between people and the natural world around us. These books, such as Our Wild Calling, explore how we strengthen those bonds we have to the natural world; notContinue reading
Chances are you’re reading this on some sort of mobile digital device, right? Well, then, with mobile device in hand, take a few steps toward the door and GO OUTSIDE! You remember outside, right? Ah, yes, nature. In our increasingly connected e-world, we too often forget that we can plug into nature. Richard Louv remindsContinue reading
December temperatures might keep you trapped indoors, but this month’s Lucky Stars offer you the chance to reconnect with the outdoors from the warmth of your living room. Get the low-down of the oddly beautiful courtship of a Neohelix albolabris woodland snail, heed warnings of paralysis-inducing shrubs, and discover how Rowan trees were used to prevent the dead fromContinue reading
The New York Times‘ Nicholas Kristof is one of our favorite columnists. Each year he writes about his family’s backpacking vacation trips, reflecting on the importance of preserving our environment and experiencing nature. In all of these columns he’s mentioned Richard Louv, whose seminal book, Last Child in the Woods, launched a nation-wide movement toContinue reading
“The more high-tech our lives become, the more nature we need.” Richard Louv changed how we view and interact with nature in the New York Times bestseller Last Child in the Woods, which sparked an international movement to reconnect children with nature and introduced the term “nature-deficit disorder.” Publishing today, his new book The NatureContinue reading