The Longfellow Lecture 2009

For more information and the complete lecture: http://www.slc.edu/news-events/video-audio/video/longfellow.html

Nature-Deficit Disorder: The Movement to Connect Our Children, Ourselves, and Future Generations to the Natural World by Richard Louv

Richard Louv is an author and journalist focused on nature, family and community. His most recent book, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, has stimulated an international conversation about the future relationship between children and nature. He serves as chairman of the Children & Nature Network, an organization helping to build the international movement to connect children with nature. He also serves as honorary co-chair of The National Forum on Children and Nature. He is the recipient of the 2008 Audubon Medal. Past recipients have included Rachel Carson, E.O. Wilson, Robert Redford, and Jimmy Carter.

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Education

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• Child Development
• Early Child Education
• Richard Louv
• Sarah Lawrence College
• Cynthi Longfellow
• Last Child In the Woods
• Nature-Deficit Disorder