Event News
State | Legislation/Policy
Conference Broadens Agenda to Help Connect Kids with Nature
The Pennsylvania Governor's Outdoor Conference, March 18-20, gathered policy-makers, educators, conservationists, and others to explore ways of connecting future generations with the outdoors.
Local
Urban Nature Week Comes to Los Angeles
The Children's Nature Institute hosted Urban Nature Week, May 14-20, 2007. Events included nature hunts at schools across the city, and a nature walkathon in beautiful Franklin Canyon Park.
State | Education
Ranchers share educational programs at Quivira Coalition’s “No Child Left Inside” roundtable
By Page Lambert
On January 18, 523 people gathered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to attend the 6th annual Quivira Coalition Conference www.quiviracoalition.org. Quivira, a non-profit organization located in Santa Fe, was founded in 1977 by a rancher and two environmentalists. The group’s mission is to foster ecological, economic and social health on western landscapes through education, innovation, collaboration, and progressive public and private land stewardship.
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National | Education
Conservation Fund – June 12, 2007
The Conservation Fund Launches The National Forum On Children And Nature
By Kathryn Brown
Over 30 of the nation’s most influential public and private leaders—including governors, mayors, CEOs, educators, and clergy—will participate in the launch this week of an ambitious effort to reconnect kids with nature. This new initiative, the National Forum on Children and Nature, will find and fund 20 projects across the country that demonstrate how kids can rediscover nature, through education, health, the media and the built environment.
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National | Education
Sierra Club Trains Natural Leaders
Building Bridges to the Outdoors will be holding its second year of weeklong Environmental Leadership trainings this week in conjunction with the Sierra Student Coalition (SSC). The leadership training program introduces, inspires and educates youth, especially under-represented minorities, about the significant and contemporary environmental issues facing their local communities.
C&NN has designated April "Children & Nature Awareness Month." As part of this effort, we invited network members (like you) to list their April programs and share their strategies for building public awareness. Find out what's happening in your community on the C&NN Movement Map.
As part of our ongoing efforts to build the movement, the Children & Nature Network has published two new resources for leaders, organizers, and participants at the local, national, and international levels:
An annotated bibliography of 20 premier studies focusing on the children and nature connection.
