Nature Does Not Steal Time, It Amplifies

Research Suggests That Exposure To The Natural World - Including Nearby Nature In Cities - Helps Improve Human Health, Well-being, And Intellectual Capacity In Ways That Science Is Only Recently Beginning To Understand.

Another British Study Discovered That Average Eight-year-olds Were Better Able To Identify Characters From The Japanese Card Trading Game Pokemon Than Native Species In The Community Where They Lived: Pikachu, Metapod, And Wigglytuff Were Names More Familiar To Them Than Otter, Beetle, And Oak Tree.

Kids Are Absolutely Starved For Positive Adult Contact.

There’s No Denying The Benefits Of The Internet. But Electronic Immersion, Without A Force To Balance It, Creates The Hole In The Boat — Draining Our Ability To Pay Attention, To Think Clearly, To Be Productive And Creative.

An Environment-based Education Movement--at All Levels Of Education--will Help Students Realize That School Isn't Supposed To Be A Polite Form Of Incarceration, But A Portal To The Wider World.