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8 Simple Tips To Grow Active, Healthy Kids

 |  Feb 3, 2010

Seven hours and 38 minutes. That’s how much time you may spend sleeping each night or working each day. It’s also how much time kids ages 8-18 spend on average … Read more

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Parents: 10 Reasons Kids Need Fresh Air

 |  Jan 1, 2010

National Wildlife Federation’s Be Out There Campaign aims to educate tens of million of U.S. moms and dads on the importance of helping their kids have more time outdoors and providing tools … Read more

Can Nature Make People More Caring? New Studies Say It’s Possible

 |  Dec 8, 2009

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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New Report Out – Coal’s Assault on Human Health

 |  Dec 2, 2009

Listen to television ads that promote “clean coal” a thousand times over and you will soon begin to believe that clean coal actually exists. At least that’s the aim of … Read more

Can We Learn from Bears?

 |  Sep 30, 2009

Hibernating bears have been an overlooked phenomenon for too long. If we could isolate and reproduce their chemistry, it would be a huge leap for health and science. Fortunately, scientists have … Read more

3 Ways You Can Help the 7.6 Million Kids with Vitamin D Deficiency

 |  Sep 2, 2009

A recent Washington Post article points out a growing problem among American children– Vitamin D deficiency, which can cause bone and heart ailments. You can get your Vitamin D from … Read more

The EPA Wants You

 |  May 21, 2009

Over the past week, the EPA has heard testimony from celebrities like James Bond, scientists like Dr. Amanda Staudt, and concerned Americans from Northern Virginia to Washington’s Puget Sound. They’re … Read more

Meet Green New Year’s Resolutions With These Sites

 |  Dec 30, 2008

I know some of you out there have not only made New Year’s resolutions, but have even drawn up action plans to carry them out. The rest of us might … Read more

Our Children Deserve Environmental Education

 |  Sep 13, 2007

An unintended consequence of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) emphasis on math and reading is that more and more schools are leaving environmental education behind. Many schools have abandoned environmental education programs to invest more time and resources in math and reading instruction. Read more

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