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Getting back to nature

Last Child in the Woods challenges a new generation of parents and children to rediscover their bond with nature

| April 16, 2009

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

by Richard Louv
(Algonquin Books,
2008;
$19.95)

Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder, speaks at a conference held by Royal Roads University in Victoria, B.C.

Louv discusses how the lack of nature in the lives of our youngest generations has long-lasting psychological, physical and emotional effects.

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This two-part podcast was recorded by Allendria Brunjes, a regular contributor to radio book lounge.

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