My new report Sowing the Seeds: Reconnecting children with nature was launched at City Hall yesterday morning. The report, written for the London Sustainable Development Commission (the body that advises the Mayor of London on sustainability) sets out a new vision for children’s relationship with nature, and maps out an action...

What happens when children spend time in natural environments – and what happens if they do not? What does the empirical evidence say? And what other insights might the research literature hold? These were the questions that I wanted to answer in my literature review [pdf link] for the Sowing the Seeds project – published on...

A loose gathering of many leaders of the Nature Clubs for Families. Here they can share ideas, concerns and encourage each other!

There are multiple ways in which people can make contact with nature in a mindful way – a 20-minute respite away from the office or classroom in an urban park, community or personal gardening, and many other activities (Credit: David via Flickr).

LOS ALTOS, Calif. — The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard.

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