I like to play indoors better ’cause that’s where all the electrical outlets are.
- A fourth-grader in San Diego
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water-bugs, tadpoles, frogs and mud-turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb, brooks to wade in, water-lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to [...]

Tags: ADD, ADHD, book review, nature

Here’s something for the hippies, wanna-be hippies, and hippie-ish amongst us (I fall into the last group): See the difference you can make - Earth Hour 2008
at 8pm March 29, 2008 millions of people in some of the world’s major capital cities, including Copenhagen, Toronto, Chicago, Melbourne, Brisbane and Tel Aviv will unite and switch [...]

Tags: Earth Hour, global warming

Last night, I finished The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. This was a very interesting read, basically a thought experiment about what would happen to the world if humans completely disappeared tomorrow leaving everything else here. Cities, bridges, roads, pollution, animals, and plants all stay; only humans go, as if some type [...]

Tags: nuclear waste, plastic, The World Without Us, Weisman

Here’s an interesting twist to the way humans affect the environment: Deforestation May Make Humans More Vulnerable To Infection
Classic theory holds that disease is a part of the proximity to the forest. Therefore, moving the forest farther away (by destroying it) will reduce the incidence of infectious disease. On the surface, it makes [...]

Tags: deforestation, illness, immunity, nature

This study came out a few days ago: Americans Brush Off Call of the Wild for Allure of Electronics, Study Suggests; (Study Abstract)
Experts report that the typical American spends up to 25% less time in nature than in 1987, and time spent in nature dropped by about 1% annually since then.
The researchers tracked visits to [...]

Tags: computer, Internet, nature, obesity, television