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In the News

Arizona Daily Sun: November 9, 2008
Sinagua Student Wins Green Youth Honor

Sierra Magazine, September/October 2008
"Staring Down Doomsday: City Kids vs. Eco-Fear"

San Francisco Chronicle: October 23, 2008
LIFETIME BENEFITS: Outdoor education has deep, lengthy meaning for kids

Watch! KQED-TV: May 12, 2008
Nature Deficit Disorder

Listen! KUNM, New Mexico Public Radio: September 17, 2008
No Child Left Inside

The Sacramento Bee: May 28, 2008
Schools substituting field trips with video links

The Albuquerque Journal: May 19, 2008
Outdoors Available in Rural Areas, Too

USA Weekend: April 27, 2008
Los Angeles, 3000 Kids join hands to better their communities.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy: April 17, 2008
Time Out: Environmental groups, health charities, and other organizations seek ways to help kids discover nature

The Albuquerque Journal: January 31, 2008
Edgewood to Kids: Go, Play

The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA: March 20, 2008
Nature education effort must get creative to find needed funding

Santa Fe New Mexican (From the Associated Press): January 30, 2008
Group wants gamers, couch potatoes to pay

Ruidoso News: January 29, 2008
'Leave No New Mexican Child Inside'

The Daily Aztec: January 30, 2008
Sin taxes give the market a bad rap

La Jornada (From the Associated Foreign Press): 27 de enero de 2008
Gravamen a videojuegos, para combatir obesidad

Watch! KOB-TV: January 20, 2008
Sierra Club proposes 'couch potato' tax

Listen! KUNM-FM: January 14, 2008
Environmental Alliance of New Mexico Outlines Legislative Priorities

Santa Fe New Mexican: January 14, 2008
No child left indoors: Bill aims to cut kids' TV time

Santa Fe New Mexican: December 21, 2007
Proponen que no se deje a ningún niño encerrado el bienestar de la comunidad, dicen maestros y otros expertos

Concord Monitor: December 9, 2007
Motivated to get outdoors: Louv inspires crowd at forum

Watch! Fox 6: December 4, 2007
At Your School: Camp McDowell

Concord Monitor: November 25, 2007
Hey, kids – get outside! (parents, too)

Listen: NH Public Radio's The Exchange, November 22, 2007
Richard Louv and "Nature Deficit Disorder"

The Wire: November 21, 2007
The Great Indoors

Our Weekly: November 22-28, 2007
School club gives city kids a taste of outdoor life

Outdoor News Daily: November 15, 2007
Saving New Hampshire Children from Nature Deficit Disorder

New Hampshire Union Leader: November 9, 2007
Author tries to connect kids with the outdoors

Oakland Tribune: November 4, 2007
'Go outside and play': Getting kids back to nature

New Mexico Kids Magazine: November/December 2007
No Child Left Inside

L.A. Watts Times: October 31, 2007
Diversity Awareness:
Inner City Youth Find Peace in the Wilderness

Sierra Magazine: November/December 2007
City Kids Unplugged:
These Seattle students don't know much about their school's iconic namesake, but they learn to share the bearded white guy's love of the wild

Albuquerque Journal: September 27, 2007
Back to Nature: Sandia Center Gives Fifth-Graders Hands-On Experience With the Great Outdoors

Southern Sierran: September 2007
Students distressed, inspired by tour

Sierra Magazine: September/October 2007
Wild At Heart:
Far from gangbangers' gunfire, beneath shooting stars, Juan Martinez thrives

Boston Globe: July 15, 2007
Military children connect at R.I. camp

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: July 4, 2007
A summer camp that beats war

CBS News 8: July, 2, 2007
Camp Brings Teens Of Military Families Together

CBS Sunday Morning: July 1, 2007
The Children of Operation Purple

CBS News Video: June 2007
Getting City Kids into Nature

USA Today: June 21, 2007
At camp, military kids bear scars of their own

Sacramento News and Review: June 14, 2007
No child left inside

Sierra Club Radio: June 6, 2007
California State Senator Alex Padilla talks about a new bill to fund outdoor education and solve "Nature Deficit Disorder."

KQED's Forum with Michael Krasny: June 1, 2007 10:00am
Nature Deficit Disorder
Listen to a discussion of Nature Deficit Disorder featuring California State Senator Alex Padilla, D-20, Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, Martin LeBlanc, Sierra Club National Youth Education Director and Juan Martinez, Sierra Club Youth Volunteer Coordinator.

Sierra Magazine: May/June 2007
Walk on the Wilshire Side

The Seattle Times: May 9, 2007
Grab the kids and flee outdoors

The Washington Post: May 3, 2007
At Dulles, a Long-Awaited Welcome Center

Albuquerque Journal: March 30, 2007
Leave No N.M. Child Inside

The Olympian: March 24, 2007
Budget Battles this week

Amador Ledger-Dispatch: March 21, 2007
Padilla legislation advocates leaving no child inside

SF Chronicle: February 25, 2007
At-risk youths might get back to nature

The Economist: February 8, 2007
No child left inside

Santa Fe Reporter: January 31, 2007
Without Walls: Will new efforts help kids get outside again?


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