News & Press
National Print and Broadcast Coverage
Over 500 national and local magazines and newspapers have run articles, reviews, and interviews featuring Richard Louv. These are just the tip of the iceberg.)
- Når naturen mangler i vores liv — Kristeligt Dagblad (1/12)
- La naturaleza es nutritiva — El Mundo (12/11)
- Wild Idea— Kansas Alumni Magazine (11/11)
- Mother's Care — Utne Reader (11/11)
- Andrew Weil's Spontaneous Happiness: Our Nature-Deficit Disorder — Newsweek (10/11)
- Quiz: Is your family suffering from nature deficit disorder? — Canadian Living (10/11)
- "Greenscaping" for Health — Neal Peirce, Washington Post Writers Group (10/11)
- Nature Advocate Inspires Lawrence Crowd — Sunflower Horizons (10/11)
- How nature can help your child — Aquarius (9/11)
- The Nature Principle — Orion Magazine (9/11)
- Wild at heart— The Financial Times (8/11)
- The Nature Principle — On Earth (8/11)
- Co-hosts, Marti and Erin Erickson, interview Richard Louv — Mom Enough (8/11)
- Being outdoors helps sharpen the mind — Richmond Times-Dispatch (7/11)
- New movement aims to rethink nature and our role in it, making us healthier and more creative — Miami Herald (6/11)
- New movement aims to rethink nature and our role in it, making us healthier and more creative — Kansas City Star (6/11)
- New movement aims to rethink nature and our role in it, making us healthier and more creative — McClatchy Newspapers (6/11)
- Discoveries — Los Angeles Times(6/11)
- Kathleen Dunn Interview with Richard Louv — Wisconsin Public Radio (6/11)
- Creating a balance between technology and nature — American Public Radio (6/11)
- Richard Louv and Friends on Reimagining Nature Literacy — Orion Magazine (6/11)
- Allow all children in Boy Scouts — Boston Globe (6/11)
- Spending time outdoors with the kids — The Marilyn Denis Show - Canada's most popular national TV show (6/11)
- Natural Intelligence, Get Your Mind Dirty — Outside Magazine (6/11)
- The outdoors: Can nature really improve health? — Chicago Tribune (5/11)
- Interview on The Nature Principle and nature-smart kids — San Francisco Examiner (5/11)
- The Nature Principle — WAMC Northeast Public Radio (5/11)
- Near is the new far — Cascadia Weekly (5/11)
- Using nature may make you smarter, healthier and happier — Vancouver Sun (5/11)
- Author Richard Louv likes what he sees in Portland, where he'll speak next week — Oregonian (5/11)
- Book promotes the unplugged life — San Diego Union Tribune (5/11)
- The great outdoors are just that for kids — USA Today (4/11)
- Why we need to get our kids back outside — The Kathleen Show (3/11)
- Richard Louv on Healthy Parks Healthy People (04/10)
- A Walk in the Woods: Right or Privilege — Orion Magazine (3/09)
- Idaho Fish and Game Promote "Be Outside" — KPVI.com (11/08)
- Eco-Psychology — Earthtalk, the Q&A of E/The Environmental Magazine (11/08)
- Ohio Program Encourages Youth to Explore the Outdoors — Herald Dispatch (6/08)
- House Committee Approves No Child Left Inside Act — The (Annapolis) Capital (6/08)
- Independent Film to Examine Nature-Deficit Disorder — The Oregonian (5/08)
- Nature Nurtures Learning — Boston Globe (12/07)
- Mother Nature: Raising Healthier Kids — USA Weekend (11/07)
- Movement to Reconnect Kids with Nature Growing Nationwide: Working to Improve Children's Health — The Nation's Health (10/07)
- Leave No Child Inside — Orion (3/07)
- Parents Need to Let Kids Out From "House Arrest" — San Francisco Chronicle (6/07)
- Getting Lost in the Great Indoors — Washington Post (6/07)
- Nature Programs' Goal: No Child Left Inside — USA Today (11/06)
- The Nature-Child Reunion — National Wildlife (6/06)
- More Green, Less Screen — PEOPLE magazine (6/06)
- Send Your Kids Outside—Now — USA Today (3/06)
- Top Science Books of the Year — Discover magazine (1/06)
- Child's Play Moves Indoors — NBC Nightly News (7/05)
- Suffering From Nature Deficit Disorder — Dallas Morning News (7/05)
- Reviews — OnEarth magazine (6/05)
- Richard Louv: "Last Child in the Woods" — NPR Diane Rehm Show (6/05)
- Do Today's Kids Have "Nature-Deficit Disorder"? — Salon.com (6/05)
- Free the Xbox Kids! — Outside magazine (6/05)
- The Dark Ages — London Times (6/05)
- Why Kids Need To Play Outdoors— CBS The Early Show (5/05)
- Kicking Kids Out — CBS Evening News (5/05)
- Saving Kids from 'Nature Deficit Disorder' — NPR's Morning Edition (5/05)
- For All Who Have Never Climbed A Tree — Christian Science Monitor (5/05)
- Parenting — Washington Post (5/05)
- Last Child in the Woods — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (5/05)
- Outdoor life — San Diego Union-Tribune (5/05)
- Reconnecting Young America with the Natural World — Neal Peirce column (5/05)
- Growing Up Denatured — The New York Times (4/05)
In the News
- The Nature Principle makes Oprah Winfrey's 2011 Summer Reading List.
- May 2011: Richard Louv embarks on a 12-city book tour for the launch of The Nature Principle.
- February 2011: Obama Administration Promotes America’s Great Outdoors Program.
- February 2011: Federal grant gives families 'nature prescriptions.'
- June 2010: Richard Louv addresses Nature Deficit Disorder while in the UK.
- May 2010: A campaign was launched to follow the lead of a few other states around the country and pass a N.C. Children's Outdoor Bill of Rights.
- April 2010: The movement moves down under as Richard Louv appears in Australia and inspires the government launched Nature Play WA.
- February 2010: Avatar, legendary filmmaker James Cameron said we all suffer from nature deficit disorder.
- February 2010: The Children & Nature Network launches the Natural Teachers Network.
- December 2009: Nature-deficit disorder tops list of important stories of 2009.
