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Healthy Parks, Healthy People!
Today I’m attending the Healthy Parks, Healthy People conference at the Institute for the Golden Gate outside of San Francisco. It is a gathering of a surprisingly diverse mix of 100 public health, park and recreation, community outreach and… Read more >
Outdoor Play in the 20s and 30s: An Audio Archive
Read about the Free Play Project, which aims to collect recorded stories about outdoor games played by Americans of different generations. Read more >
Urban Wildlife Inspires Greater Need for Healthy Communities
This past weekend, I was inspired by one of the most awesome spectacles I’ve witnessed since moving to the nation’s capital: On my ride home from some Christmas shopping, I took a look across a reservoir in northern Washington, DC… Read more >
Ho, Ho, Ho! The Season’s Best Family Outdoor Fun from the Web
Ranger Rick editor Libby Schleichert offers the best outdoor nature activities for the holiday season. Read more >
Get To Know Contest: Enter Your Child’s Nature-Inspired Artwork
Enter your kids’ nature-inspired drawings, video, photos, or writing in the Get To Know Contest by November 30. Read more >
Nature Calms The Mind, Brain Scans Prove
I know how much calmer I feel when I’m surrounded by the natural world, but now there is really good science to explain why. New research published in the journal NeuroImage used brain scanning to monitor neural activity in people… Read more >
Time For Some Serious Play
This week, National Wildlife Federation will turn Twitter and Facebook into a virtual playground – and inspire people to turn the computer off and play outside! 6 Ways To Play Along: 1. Tweet playfully: Whenever you have fun outside this… Read more >
National Summit – Getting Kids Outdoors
By Larry Schweiger I was in Houston yesterday at National Wildlife Federation’s summit on getting kids outdoors. We had over 1,000 attendees from 101 locations in more than 25 states focused on how we can counter the indoors deficit facing… Read more >
Eight Reasons More Outdoor Time Improves Kids’ School Performance
American children spend an average of six hours per day watching television, web surfing and playing video games, By contrast, they spend an average of 30 minutes in outdoor sports and just four to seven minutes per day in unstructured outdoor play. This causes… Read more >
Be Out There: Five Great Online Tools For Parents To Increase Their Kids’ Outdoor Time
Moms and dads who want to increase the amount of outdoor play time their kids are getting each week can find valuable help from the National Wildlife Federation’s Be Out There parents’ education program by using five terrific online tools.
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