by Lonnie Lorenz April 22nd, 2010 will be the 40 year celebration of the first Earth Day here in America. Since then many rivers have been cleaned up and smog eliminated from our cities. Despite all that success, today our kids are suffering. Richard Louv, child advocacy expert, directly blames the lack of nature in the lives on today’s wired generation. He calls this phenomenon nature-deficit order and he links it to some of the most alarming trends for our kids. Including rises in obesit
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Children of the Earth by Lonnie LorenzOn April 22, 1970, 20 million people across America celebrated the first Earth Day. It was a time when cities were buried under their own smog and polluted rivers caught fire. Now Earth Day is celebrated annually around the globe. Through the combined efforts of the U.S. government, grassroots organizations, and citizens like you, what started as a day of national environmental recognition has evolved into a worldwide campaign to protect our global
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by Lonnie Lorenz America celebrated the first Earth Day On April 22, 1970. It was a need celebration to bring to light how polution was killing this world. Today, Earth Day is no longer celebrated nationally but is celebrated around the globe. The earth is in better shape than those early days yet, there is a staggering divide between children and the outdoors. Richard Louv, child advocacy expert, directly blames the lack of nature in the lives on today’s wired generation. He calls this phon
by Lonnie Lorenz America celebrated the first Earth Day On April 22, 1970. It was a need celebration to bring to light how polution was killing this world. Today, Earth Day is no longer celebrated nationally but is celebrated around the globe. The earth is in better shape than those early days yet, there is a staggering divide between children and the outdoors. Richard Louv, child advocacy expert, directly blames the lack of nature in the lives on today’s wired generation. He calls this phon
by Lonnie Lorenz America celebrated the first Earth Day On April 22, 1970. It was a need celebration to bring to light how polution was killing this world. Today, Earth Day is no longer celebrated nationally but is celebrated around the globe. Since those early days, we have done a pretty good job cleaning up the planet. Yet , there is a staggering divide between children and the outdoors, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the lack of nature in the lives of today’s wired gene
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