There is another possibility: not the end of nature, but the rebirth of wonder and even joy.

Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).

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.

Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

Green exercise improves psychological health.

When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.