Movement Report OCTOBER 2007
August marked an important milestone for the children and nature movement when more than 80 regional leaders from across North America met to share strategies for building the movement to reconnect children and nature. In plenary sessions and table top discussions, participants shared successes, synergies and examples from the emerging movement.
Resources compiled for the event are available on the C&NN Web site along with photos and selected quotes from participants.
C&NN has also taken a step forward this month with the addition of two new members of the Board of Directorsand the formation of aBoard of Advisors.
These individuals, distinguished leaders in their own fields, bring a breadth and depth to our understanding of what actions will have the greatest impacts. They will also serve as ambassadors, helping to break down the silos and secure a place at the table for the children and nature movement.
C&NN's October issue of news & commentary focuses on the growing body of research linking children, nature, health, and land.
— The Children & Nature Network Board of Directors
MOVEMENT NEWS & COMMENTARY - OCTOBER, 2007
Children, Nature, Health and Land
American Public Health Association Features a Front Page Article on the Movement
The Nation’s Health – October 2007
 The October Issue of The Nation’s Health, The official newspaper of the American Public Health Association, features a front page article on the children and nature movement and the intersection between healthy people and a healthy environment.
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The Powerful Link Between Conserving Land and Preserving Health
the Land Trust Alliance – August 2007
 This report, written by Howard Frumkin and Richard Louv for the Land Trust Alliance, explores the growing body of evidence that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy. What does the evidence show? Nature contact yields surprisingly broad health benefits including less procrastination, better coping skills, greater self-discipline, less violence and better social relationships
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Choosing TV Over Trees: New Research Raises Questions About Children's Health and the Future of Conservation
the Journal of Development Processes - June 2007
 Authors Oliver Pergams, Ph.D. and Patricia Zaradic, Ph.D. report that “videophilila,” as they call it, can have disturbing implications for children’s mental and physical health, educational achievement, well-being, and their personal values and priorities later in life.
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No outdoor play ‘hurts children’
BBC NEWS – September 10, 2007
 Children's health is suffering because they are losing the chance to play outside, a group of experts has warned. In response to the Unicef finding that British children were among the unhappiest, more than 40 professors, 60 psychologists and psychotherapists, signed a letter stating that "We believe that a key factor in this disturbing trend is the marked decline over the last 15 years in children's play." The experts say that play - especially when it takes place outdoors - is crucial to a child's health.
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COMMENTARY
On Mental Health: How a psychiatrist included nature in his child and adolescent practice
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Children and Nature Workshop – June 27, 2007
His clients, adolescents and young adults with serious mental and addictive disorders, are often stuck in demanding and constricting time schedules, receiving valuable counseling but still "just moving from one box, their homes, to another box, an office." Dr Arnette explained. He's making an active effort to change that scenario after reading Last Child in the Woods. "The book helped me realize that they needed to get out into open, natural spaces with blue sky, wind, water, plants and animals, and these experiences needed to be as timeless as possible."
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Britain's RoSPA Urges Risk Averse Parents to Consider the Health Benefits of Tree Climbing and Outdoor Play
By Sarah Womack - The Daily Telegraph, UK
 Have your say: Should we let children climb trees? The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), Britain's safety charity, suggests it would be better for the occasional child to fall out of a tree and break their wrist than develop repetitive strain injury from playing computer games. The RoSPA said parents were too risk-averse and youngsters should be allowed to bruise and cut themselves.
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REGIONAL NEWS
Wyoming recreation managers target couch potato kids
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Fort Collins Losing ground: More people mean more houses and fewer places to explore
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Florida Geocaching: A high-tech trail trek to draw kids outdoors
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Seattle Teens go wild - for nature
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Maine State seeks to get more children outdoors
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NEWS IN REVIEW
U.S. Rep. John Sarbanes proposes bill to integrate environmental education into NCLB
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Sustainable spirit: REI chief says the challenge is to connect people with nature
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What the Nation’s Governors are Doing to Leave No Child Inside
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How children lost the right to roam in four generations
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CBN News Features No Child Left Inside report
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Camp Fire USA Central Ohio Council launches “Reuniting Children and Nature” campaign.
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NOTICES
Project Learning Tree Greenworks Grants deadline October 31st
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No Child Left Inside (NCLI) Coalition includes 110 member organizations representing over 15 million people. Visit their site for LNCB reauthorization Update.
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