As we continue to learn more and more about climate change, our outlook on our environmental future seems to get more and more pessimistic.  When I envision the Earth in the future, I imagine a bleak and desolate wasteland. Author Richard Louv brings a fresh and hopeful vision of the future with The Nature Principle, suggesting that ifContinue 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

Summer’s winding down, but we still have plenty of time left to cram in more summer reading, right? We recently asked our authors to tell us about their favorite summer reads, whether from recent memory or the distant past. The variety of books they came up with is really kind of amazing. Herewith, Part 1.Continue 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

In her “Personal Health” column in Tuesday’s New York Times, Jane Brody wrote, “I urge you to read the best-selling book Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv, who coined the phrase ‘nature-deficit disorder.’” We agree! The article, about the negative effects of our decreasing physical activity and growing disconnect with the natural environment,Continue reading