Richard Louv

In the News

• Brasileira está entre lideranças inspiradoras eleitas pela organização internacional ‘Children & Nature Network’ — Conexão planeta (11/26) [English translation]
• OUTDOORS: Helping young people to become stewards of their environment — Montrose Press (11/3)
• Children need more green time — The Star (10/29)
• Texas Master Naturalists to offer free monthly program — Fort Bend Herald (10/26)
• This plot of CT land isn't just a place to dig in the dirt. For trauma survivors, it's a way to heal — Connecticut Public Radio (10/3)
• Take a Child Outside Week aims to promote outdoor engagement and exploration — The Daily Tar Heel (9/25) "Take a Child Outside was founded as a website in 2007. It was inspired by author Richard Louv’s 2005 book 'Last Child in the Woods,' which calls attention to youth spending less time outdoors than previous generations."
• Museum Celebrates ‘Take A Child Outside Week’ Sept. 24-30 — North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (9/19)
• Hungry Mosquitoes, Irritable Bears and the Glories of Wilderness — The New York Times (8/23)
• Nature curricula available to teachers through Missouri Department of Conservation — KSMU (8/23)
• Connecting our children with nature — Record Herald (8/23)
• Kids Glued to Their Screens? 5 Tips To Get Them to Love the Outdoors — WSJ (8/23)
• Six & Twenty Book Club discusses importance of nature at Cowan Lake - Wilmington News Journal (8/23)
• Connecting our children with nature — Record Herald (8/23)
  
• Kids should spend beautiful summer days outside roaming, educator says — BDN (8/23)
• Experts Warn Defunding School Hunting And Archery Programs Will Contribute To Mental Health Crisis — Forbes (7/23)
• Auburn's Woodland Wonders Nature Preschool uses curiosity-first philosophy to connect children to learning — Alabama News Center (7/23)
  
• Chasing Sleep: Sleep and Nature, Season 2, Episode 8 (7/23) (podcast)
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• Shining Stars Childcare embraces nature's classroom — 26 NE Wisconsin (7/23)
• Casting Youth Into Outdoors — The Star News (7/23)
  
• Catalysts for Change: Can Teens Survive the Digital World? Richard Louv on Reconnecting with Nature (6/23) (podcast)
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• Kindergarten’s Forest School Fridays at West Chester Friends School — Vista.Today (6/23)
• DEC Announces First-Time Camper Weekend Program for 2023 Season - NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation — D.E.C (6/23)
• Growing Up Free: Preventing Nature Deficit Disorder in Children — Mother Earth News (5/23)
• Stillmeadow Peace Park: innovative environmental education at work — AFRO News (5/23)
• Risk Assessment in Children — Nebraskaland (5/23)
  
• Richard Louv’s term continues to demonstrate increasing relevance  — The Spectator (5/23)
• Data shows digital dumbing down America at drastic rate — Bainbridge Island Review (4/23)
• Books for the Budding Young Naturalist in Your Life — Book Riot (3/23)
• Five Reasons Why We Are Not Separate From Nature and Why It Matters — Living Architecture Monitor (Spring/23)
• The great outdoors: Partners in Learning takes classroom outside — Salisbury Post (2/23)
  
• Midstokke: Education outside is part of a holistic solution — The Spokesman - Review (2/23)
• Children are spending too much time on screens and not enough time in nature | Opinion — The Tennessean (1/23)
• Ball Brothers Foundation Explores Intersection of Outdoor Recreation and Education at Summit — Muncie Journal (12/22)
• Time to Rethink Nature Apps? — Sierra (11/22)
• Education in America: School Is for Connecting to Nature — The New York Times (9/22)
• Ecotherapy: How being in nature boosts your physical and mental health — The Palm Beach Post (8/22)
• Colorado's outdoors offers a kind of therapy. But it’s not a magic pill. — Colorado Sun (8/22)
• Ryan Olson leaving Muddy Sneakers position | Education — Transylvaniatimes.com (7/22)
• How connecting with nature can help lighten your mood, according to experts — Indian Express Indulge (12/21)
• How nature can be therapy for kids stuck indoors during the pandemic — CBS (12/21)
  
• ‘Ecotherapy’ & how it helps kids manage emotions — Moms (11/21)
• Trailblazer: Richard Louv — EcoResolution (10/21)
• Encourage children to get outdoors and enjoy the glorious summer — Johnson City Press (6/21)
• Our Wild Calling, a book that beckons us to reconnect with nature — Lifegate (5/21)
• Gardens help children combat 'nature-deficit disorder — Chestnut Hill Local (4/21)
• Leave No Child Inside — Orion Magazine (3/21)
• A la pena por la pérdida de ese paraje de tu infancia se le llama ‘solastalgia’ — El Pais (1/21)
• New York Times Recommends Six New Paperbacks — New York Times (11/20)
• Reconnect Children to Nature — Trinidad and Tobago Newsday (10/20)
• Growing Outdoors — The National Wildlife Federation (9/20)
• Richard Louv: “La Verdadera vanguardia de la educación es hacer las escuelas más verdes” — Naturaliza (9/20)
• Why We Hunger for a Connection to the Wild During Quarantine— Los Angeles Times (7/20)
• Wild at Heart— Kansas Alumni (7/20)
• The New Nature Movement— The Quintessential Barrington (7/20)
• Louv Captures Top Honor in Annual San Diego Book Awards— The San Diego Union Tribune (6/20)
• Necesitamos la imagen de un futuro al que queramos ir— La Vanguardia (6/20)
• “Nature Deficit Disorder” is Really a Thing— New York Times (6/20)
• ‘Living Architecture’ Key to Post-Pandemic Cities — Woodrow Sun (5/20)
• Nature is a Child’s First Window into Wonder — The Times of India (5/20)
• Richard Louv: “El hambre de conectar con la naturaleza está en su punto más alto”— El Asombrarlo (5/20)
• Richard Louv - GCA Medalist in the News — Garden Club of America (4/20)
• Op-Ed; Finding Nature and Each Other — REI Co-op Journal (4/20)
• Diagnosis: Nature-Deficit Disorder — Atlanta Parent (3/20)
• Noah’s New Ark— Psychology Today (3/20)
• If it feels like an animal just gets you, maybe it does — CBC News (3/20)
  
• For que echoes de menos el campo aunque no te guste — Bienestar (3/20)
• Close encounter with an octopus shows why our wild calling matters, says author Richard Louv — CBC Radio (3/20)
• Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health— Yale Environment 360 (1/20
  
• Nature-deficit disorder: What kids lose by not experiencing the outdoors enough — Big Think (1/20)
• ‘Our Wild Calling’ Argues for Emotional Connection with Animals — The CSM (12/19)
• The Life-Changing Benefits of Animal Encounters— Outside Magazine (12/19)
• Discover Magazine names “Our Wild Calling” Top Holiday Pick— Discover Magazine (12/19)
• Book Review: How Communing with Animals can Tame our Anxious Souls — Providence Journal (11/19)
• “Our Wild Calling” By Richard Louv— WAMC (11/19)
• Strength in Numbers: November’s Best Environmental Books— EcoWatch (11/19)
• Louv’s ‘Our Wild Calling’ Probes the Deep Human Bond with Animals— Buckrail (11/19)
• 10 Books to Read in December — The Washington Post (10/19)
• Animals are Messengers in Richard Louv’s Latest — Publishers Weekly (9/19)
• Deficit de Naturaleza — Telva (9/19)
• Connect Your Grandkids to Nature — Grand Magazine (8/19)
• Does Fishing have a Future? — The Wall Street Journal (8/19)
• Nature Helps Kids Have Compassion for the World — Mountain Journal (8/19)
• New Efforts Help Engage Disadvantaged Youth in the Outdoors — Earth.com (8/19)
• Cotton Wool Parenting and Nature-Deficit Disorder are Prompting Schools to Bring in Mud Play— ABC News (6/19)
• Outdoors for All — Sierra Magazine (5/19)
• Act Naturally: The Benefits of Wet Hands and Muddy Feet — Early Learning Nation (5/19)
• Special Report: The Nature Cure — Outside Magazine (5/19)
• Why ‘Plant Blindness’ Matters - and what you can do about it— BBC (4/19)
• Earth Day Begins at Home— The Hill (4/19)
• Why a Tree Change Might Just be the Thing You Need to Disconnect — Vogue Australia (4/19)
• Mother Nature and Human Nature Changes Our World — Modern Ghana (4/19)
• Sharing Nature’s Precious Legacy — Next Avenue (4/19)
• Duchess of Cambridge Enters Chelsea Flower Show as She Designs Woodland Wonderland for Families — The Telegraph (1/19)
• Animals are the cure for loneliness — Outside Magazine (9/18)
• Los niños que se ensucian en el campo lidiarán mejor con la vida — El Pais (6/18)
• Writing Prescriptions to Play Outdoors — New York Times (6/18)
• The Perks of a Play-in-the-Mud Educational Philosophy — The Atlantic (4/18)
• Why We Need More Nature, and How to Make it Fun — 24 Life (4/18)
• New “Biophilic” Buildings Use Quirky Features to Bring Nature Indoors — NBC News (3/18)
• Whose Nature? Colorado Leads Push to Democratize the Outdoors — Christian Science Monitor (2/18)
• Nature-based Preschools, Where Children Spend Most of Their Day Outside are a Growing trend in the United States — PRI Radio Network (2/18)
• Have Iowans Become Wimps in Frigid Winter Weather? — Des Moines Register (1/18)
• Can the Return of ‘Wet Play’ Stop our Kids’ Obsession with Screens? — The Telegraph (11/17)
• Green Schoolyards Can Improve Children’s Mental and Physical Health — The Daily Texan (11/17)
• Nieman: Children and Their Parents, Need to Make Time to Play — Calgary Herald (11/17)
• Conservation Comment: Addressing our Nature Deficit — New Zealand Herald (11/17)
• From Awareness to Action: The New Nature Movement — Hand to Hand (10/17)
• Badger or Bulbasaur- Have Children Lost Touch With Nature — The Guardian (9/17)
• How Gardening Can Help Build Healthier, Happier Kids — The Washington Post (7/17)
• Envisioning Nature-Rich Cities — CityLab (6/17)
• Hey Congress, Here’s Our Health Plan — Outside Magazine (5/17)
• Kids Need Access to Nature for Mental Health — Vancouver Sun (4/17)
• The New Nature Movement, After 11/8 — Huffington Post (12/16)
• How to Protect Kids from Nature-Deficit Disorder — Greater Good (9/16)
• Kindergarten, Naturally — The Atlantic (9/16)
• He Wrote a Book and Started a Movement— San Diego Union-Tribune (7/16)
• Author Richard Louv visits Louisville in July — Courier Journal (6/16)
• Falta de Contato com a Natureza Pode Causar Problemas de Aprendizado, Obesidade e ate Depressao em Criancas— R7 Noticias (6/16)
• Are You Suffering From Nature-Deficit Disorder? — Irish Independent (5/16)
• Interview with Richard Louv, Johnathan Jarvis, and Dr. Robert Zarr — The Diane Rehm Show (4/16)
• 5 Ways to Get Kids into Nature — Outside (4/16)
• Kids Grow with Vitamin N (nature): 500 Ways to Ease into the Outdoors — The Oregonian (4/16)
• Do Kids Need Camp?— Richmond Family magazine (2/16)
• Nature or Nurture? Outdoor Preschools Combine the Best of Both — Multibriefs (1/16)
• Kids Aren’t Spending Enough Time Just Going Outside — New York Post (11/15)
• Schoolkids Discover Birds in Their Backyard — Star Tribune (11/15)
• New Children’s Zoo Aims to Cure ‘Nature Deficit Disorder’ — Boston Globe (10/15)
• Are You Nature-Deprived?— U.S. News & World Report (10/15)
• Why We All Need a Dose of Vitamin N— Daily Mail (10/15)
• The Nature Cure — The Atlantic (10/15)
• HSBC Partners with CWF to Combat “Nature Deficit Disorder” — Daily Update (9/15)
• ‘Nature-Deficit Disorder’ is Real, Not Going Away— Green Bay Press Gazette (5/15)
• The Right to Fresh Air — Worcester Magazine (4/15)
• President Obama Announces Every Kid in a Park Initiative — National Park Service (2/15)
• “Last Child in the Woods” is a Must-Read for all Parents and Educators — Treehugger (2/15)
• Connecting With Nature? There’s an App for That — Huffington Post (12/14)
• Why Playing is Going the Way of Dodgeball And Why That’s a Bad Idea — Times Union (11/14)
• Healthy Play Outdoors Means Healthy Kids — Parks & Recreation (11/14)
• 10 Ways to Get Your Kids Out in Nature, And Why it Matters — The Washington Post (10/14)
• Back to Nature: Understanding Nature-Deficit Disorder — CEC Talks Nature (7/14)
• Benefits Abound for Outdoor Enthusiasts — Columbia Daily Tribune (7/14)
• Let Nature Take its Course to Improve Your Health — USA Today (6/14)
• Author Richard Louv Challenges Charlotte to Connect Children with Nature — Charlotte Observer (4/14)
• Back-to-Nature Play Push Gains Ground — Newsmagazine Network (3/14)
• Kids Need to Offsett Screen Time with Nature Time — CBC News (2/14)
• Interview - Richard Louv— MiNDFOOD (2/14)
• 5 Questions for Richard Louv— Orion Magazine (11/13)
• Camping 101 Fights Nature-Deficit Disorder — Outside Magazine (10/13)
• Just One in Five Children Connected to Nature, Says Study — BBC News (10/13)
• Into the Woods — The Boston Globe (10/13)
• The Value in Reconnecting with Nature — One Green Planet (9/13)
• Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Progress — The New York Times (9/13)
• Why go Outside When you Have an iPhone? — The Economist (8/13)
• Back to Nature: Understanding Nature Deficit Disorder — Network Ireland (7/13)
• Connecting With Nature Boosts Creativity and Health — National Geographic (6/13)
• Tony Juniper’s five best books about nature — The Telegraph (2/13)
• Instill love of nature in children — Laura Bush, For the Express News (1/13)
• “Leaf Litter” Talks with Richard Louv — Leaf Litter (12/12)
• Take Two Hours of Pine Forest and Call Me in the Morning — Outside Magazine (11/12)
• Heroes of the Planet — Huffington Post (11/12)
• C&NN Chair Richard Louv Sees Progress in Curing “Nature-Deficit Disorder” — Salt Lake Tribune (10/12)
• 5 Easy Tips to Connect with Nature and the World During the 2012 Olympics—and Beyond — Huffington Post (8/12)
• What Gives You Hope These Days? — Utne Reader (7/12)
• From gloom to gladness — The Star (6/12)
• Richard Louvs “Das letzte Kind im Wald?” führt uns zu den Ursprüngen von Naturerfahrung — ZEIT Online (5/12)
• Advice for Congress this first day of spring: To improve leadership, go outside — Christian Science Monitor (3/12)
• Why a walk in the park could change your life — The Sydney Morning Herald (3/12)
• Spejderliv får børn i skoven — Kristeligt Dagblad (1/12)
• Når naturen mangler i vores liv — Kristeligt Dagblad (1/12))
• La naturaleza es nutritiva — El Mundo (12/11)
• 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)
• How nature can help your child — Aquarius (9/11)
• The Nature Principle — Orion Magazine (9/11)
• Wild at heart— The Financial Times (8/11)
• Co-hosts, Marti and Erin Erickson, interview Richard Louv — Mom Enough (8/11)
• Combating Nature-Deficit Disorder in Kids— NBC News (8/11)
• The Family Book Club — Oprah (7/11)
• Is a “Nature-Deficit” Hurting your Creativity?— CBS News (6/11)
• New movement aims to rethink nature and our role in it, making us healthier and more creative — Bangor Daily News (6/11)
• Discoveries — Los Angeles Times (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)
• Natural Intelligence, Get Your Mind Dirty — Outside Magazine (6/11)
• Richard Louvs “Das letzte Kind im Wald?” führt uns zu den Ursprüngen von Naturerfahrung — ZEIT: Von Kinderlust (5/11)
• The outdoors: Can nature really improve health? — Chicago Tribune (5/11)
• The Nature Principle — WAMC Northeast Public Radio (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)
• Program has Doctors Giving Out ‘Nature Prescriptions’ — USA Today (2/11)
• Playing Outdoors is Vital for Kids, Report Finds — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (10/10)
• Let Them Climb Trees — The Guardian (6/10)
• Richard Louv on Healthy Parks Healthy People (04/10)
• James Cameron Goes Green — Huffington Post (4/10)
• No Child Left Inside — CBS News (8/09)
• Getting Children Back to the Great Outdoors— London Times (7/09)
• A Walk in the Woods: Right or Privilege — Orion Magazine (3/09)
• No More ‘Nature-Deficit Disorder’ — Psychology Today (1/09)
• 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)
• Nature Nurtures Learning — Boston Globe (12/07)
• Children Detach from the Natural World as they Explore the Virtual One — San Francisco Gate (6/07)
• Parents Need to Let Kids Out From “House Arrest” — San Francisco Chronicle (6/07)
• Getting Lost in the Great Indoors — Washington Post (6/07)
• Leave No Child Inside — Orion (3/07)
• Nature Programs’ Goal: No Child Left Inside — USA Today (11/06)
• The Nature-Child Reunion — National Wildlife (6/06)
• Send Your Kids Outside—Now — USA Today (3/06)
• An Interview with Richard Louv about the Need to Get Kids Out into Nature — Grist (3/06)
• Top Science Books of the Year — Discover magazine (1/06)
• Child’s Play Moves Indoors — NBC Nightly News (7/05)
• 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 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)
• Reconnecting Young America with the Natural World — The Seattle Times (5/05)
• Growing Up Denatured — The New York Times (4/05)