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Richard Louv issues call to support EEAW's 17th Annual Conference

Author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Within the space of a few decades, the way children understand and experience their neighborhoods and the natural world has changed radically. Even as children and teenagers become more aware of global threats to the environment, their physical contact, their intimacy with nature, is fading. As one suburban fifth grader put it to me, in what has become the signature epigram of the children-and-nature movement: “I like to play indoors better ‘cause that’s where all the electrical outlets are.”

In the past year we have seen the growth of countless new private and public programs aimed at reconnecting children and nature ¬– and the bolstering of many existing ones. The idea of a national children and nature movement has become a reality. State and regional campaigns, often called Leave No Child Inside, have formed across the nation. A host of related initiatives – among them the simple living, walkable cities, nature education, and land-trust movements – have begun to find common cause, and collective strength, through this issue. The activity has attracted a diverse assortment of people who might otherwise never work together.

There’s a movement happening – a movement to ensure that children maintain their access to the natural world so critical to their overall well being and development. And while children need their nature, it’s also true that nature needs its children. Teens and adults are working to save our wild places to ensure that the natural world remains accessible. Children chose careers as a result of the nature connections they themselves made as children.

But harnessing the urgency of a moment and transforming it into tangible action can be difficult. Often, a catalyst is needed to bring people together and to help them recognize their common interests and begin working together toward real and lasting solutions.

One such catalyst for Washington State is this year’s Annual Conference of the Environmental Education Association of Washington.  Called Reinventing Green: Environmental Education in a Changing World, this conference will provide a venue and timely opportunity for educators, business leaders, tribal representatives, community members, ecologists and a wide array of other public and private stakeholders to come together to learn and to shape a more sustainable and connected future for all.

I urge you to attend and provide your financial support this important conference and organization and to take an active role in crafting the future our children need and deserve.

Sincerely,

Rich Louv

Keynote speakers and proposal topics

Don’t miss EEAW’s 17th annual conference, “Reinventing Green: Environmental Education in a Changing World,” which is taking place November 8 - 10, 2007, in Seattle, WA.

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