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• 50 Things for Kids to Do Outdoors

  
  Ecology Global Network — Authority: 478
  50 things to do before you’re 11 3/4! Last spring the United Kingdom’s National Trust launched a campaign to get kids to experience the great outdoors: 50 things to do before you’re 11 3/4 . The list was so popular, with many participants completing the whole list, and asking for more, that the National ...
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• Does Your Child Have Nature Deficit Disorder?

  
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  Remember the good old days, when your mom told you to go outside to play all day and just to be sure to come home when the streetlights came on? Yeah, me neither (nor do most of my friends). But my slightly older husband, who grew up in a small town, does, and probably most of our parents or grandparents do. Now try ...
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• Featured Philanthropy :: IMBA

  
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  The International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) creates, enhances and protects great mountain bike experiences. Our local groups — IMBAs mountain bike chapters, clubs and patrols—help care for the trails you ride by donating nearly a million annual hours of volunteer service to public lands. We work in ...
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• GRAND IDEAS! 21 Great Ways Grandparents and Grandfriends Can Connect Kids to Nature

  
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  What’s a grandparent to do? Marti Erickson makes a practice of keeping two collapsible chairs in her car trunk. If she’s having a particularly stressful day, she drives to the closest patch of nature, sits on one of those chairs, and is soothed. She always carries two chairs in the trunk of her car. “My [...]
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• Screen Free Week April 29-May 5, 2013: Glee-fully Unplugged

  
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  April 29, 2013 As the clock ticks down for the Screen Free Week challenge to unplug, it’s been an interesting ‘sell’ to convince teen tribes even for “service learning points.” Gleaning parent participation in the heart of Silicon Valley? Even harder. In fact, it’s getting hilarious documenting some ...
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• Explore Fund Grantee Profile :: Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake

  
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  To learn more about the Explore Fund visit www.ExploreFund.org, applications for 2013 grants are open until May 1st. Through our 4 Club locations in Salt Lake and Tooele Counties in Utah, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake serves over 4,700 kids each year including 1,300 teens. We have nearly 500 members ...
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• ON ANGEL MOUNTAIN: In a Place Beyond Facebook, Time Stops

  
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  On the night before the roundup, the professor stood out under the river of stars. He watched satellites and listened to the coyotes. He said something quietly to the dog, and the dog padded back up to the house. From the plateau, he could see the dark hollows lined with Live Oaks that live so long and [...]
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• NATURE: A GRANDPARENT’S BEST FRIEND

  
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  I’m new to grandparenting. But I’m learning that nature can be a grandparent’s best friend. Three years ago, when my sister and I were each blessed with our first grandchild, we quickly realized that one of the best ways we could support the sleep-deprived parents and bond with our then-infant grandchildren was ...
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• The Nature Principle: Experience the Earth Beyond Instagram

  
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  April 22, 2013 Earth Day “The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.” -Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder and founder of Children and Nature Network, Let’s G.O. (Get Outside) ...
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• YOLO in Yosemite

  
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  “We’re all native to this planet, but we’ve made a mess of it by using our intelligence very unintelligently,” Ron Kauk said, as  El Capitan  towered over us. “It’s just mind boggling how we’ve managed to damage our own home,” he continued — not with condemnation, but a sincere concern for life in ...
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• Autism and the Natural Environment: Conor Celebrates Earth Day Every Day

  
  Facing Autism in New Brunswick — Authority: 125
  Today is Earth Day ! Conor celebrated yesterday with some Run, Jump, Fly fun on the North Riverfront Trail here in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.  We try to get outdoors and celebrate our natural environment with Conor every day, every chance we get. 
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• A tree called Zoom

  
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  Portland Tree Tour : I don’t know the story of how this tree acquired the name “Zoom.” It had been named before my children were enrolled. Zoom is a large, multi-trunk western red-cedar, Thuja plicata , located outside the Children’s Museum. It is perfect for climbing. My son fully explored the spreading ...
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