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We’re mapping the Children & Nature movement.

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Post your grassroots campaign, program, place or event on the movement map with other network members.



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Grassroots Campaign Check List:
• Multi-sector, community-wide effort
• Two or more major partners
• Action plan and strategy for fundamental change
• Participants include government, health, and education.
(NOTE: If your campaign is being developed by a single agency or organization you can list your efforts on the movement map as a program or event.)

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These Do It Yourself! Do It Now! clubs are beginning to form around the country. They go by different names, and slightly different forms, but they all offer free, low-cost, fun family-oriented activities that help kids (and adults) become happier, healthier and even smarter.

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"If you go with long-term significance, my pick for the top story of not only 2009 but also of the 21st Century is the pandemic of Nature Deficit Disorder, a term so aptly coined by Richard Louv in his best-selling outdoor book, Last Child in the Woods...."
— Bill Schneider, NewWest.Net
“Concerns about long-term consequences—affecting emotional well-being, physical health, learning abilities, environmental consciousness—have spawned a national movement to ‘leave no child inside.’ In recent months, it has been the focus of Capitol Hill hearings, state legislative action, grassroots projects, a U.S. Forest Service initiative to get more children into the woods and a national effort to promote a ‘green hour’ in each day.”
— Washington Post, June 2007
All of us share a sense of common purpose. We represent many, many others—some we know, and others we have never met. People throughout the world are increasingly connected by a resonance and passion, to create a new common sense for the good health of children today and generations to come.
– Cheryl Charles
“The movement to reconnect children to the natural world has arisen quickly, spontaneously, and across the usual social, political, and economic dividing lines.”
— Orion magazine, March/April 2007

Newsletter Archive

JULY 2010 – Summer Reading 2010
JUNE 2010 – News and Updates
APR 2010 – Earth Week
MAR 2010 – Awareness Month 2010
FEB 2010 – Updates from Michigan
JAN 2010 – From the Grassroots
DEC 09 – Season's Greetings
NOV 09 – C&NN News & Updates
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C&NN Publications

As part of our ongoing efforts to build the movement, the Children & Nature Network has published these new resources for leaders, organizers, and participants at the local, national, and international levels:
Children and Nature 2009: A Report on the Movement to Reconnect Children to the Natural World
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C&NN Community Action Guide: Building the Children & Nature Movement from the Ground Up
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