South Dakota’s House passed a resolution calling for “balanced” teaching of global warming in the state’s public schools. The 36 state representatives who supported HCR 1009 believe that “carbon dioxide is not a pollutant…Many scientists refer to carbon dioxide as ‘the gas of life’”. Read more
Amanda Cooke’s Archive
TALK L8R! 2 MUCH TXT-ING, GOING OUTSIDE
The bottom line—families need to Be Out There more than they are. Kids who spend time outside have fitter bodies, better eyesight, less stress, and better grades.
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For The New Year, Pledge A Different Kind of TIME OUT
Let’s make the indoor childhood so ’00s. NWF wants Americans to open the next decade with a new type of ‘time out’: a New Year’s resolution to spend more of … Read more
Can Nature Make People More Caring? New Studies Say It’s Possible
The benefits of nature have been widely documented—active time in the outdoors improves classroom performance, gets kids off the couch, and can help prevent children from being “coronary time bombs”, and now new research shows that nature can also make people more caring.
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‘Generation E’ Leading Campus Sustainability Revolution
NWF’s Campus Ecology program has released its anticipated study of Generation E: Students Leading for a Sustainable, Clean Energy Future, which highlights the unique and critical role college students play … Read more
Time Out Fuels Classroom Performance
For kids these days, back to school sometimes means back indoors. In fact, the opposite should be the case—NWF has compiled vast research connecting the dots between classroom performance and … Read more
International Youth Leaders: Make Enviro Education Mandatory
The United Nations Environment Program is currently hosting the Tunza International Children and Youth Conference in South Korea, the biggest-ever youth gathering on global warming. The title “tunza” is a … Read more
Serving Others by Digging Dirt
This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, some of my colleagues and I took up the call to a day of national service. Joined by some big names and little students, … Read more
