We are pleased to report on the recent activity in our Nature Child Reunion initiative - Reconnecting Children and Families with Nature. We hope you find the information and links useful. We welcome your feedback too - info@thekeshotrust.org
Bob Peart represented The Kesho Trust at a national meeting of the Child and Nature Network in Minneapolis in August. Read Bob’s report on the meeting. Subsequent to this meeting Bob has been appointed a Senior Associate to the C&NN. We also encourage you to review the C&NN website for their regular updates. www.cnaturenet.org
Richard Louv is returning to Canada on Saturday December 1. He is scheduled to speak at the Centennial Scouter Conference in Richmond. When he is here we are arranging for Richard to meet with key people involved with the Scouting movement to discuss how the children-nature link can be strengthened within the Scouting movement.
Mark August 16-19, 2008 in your calendars for this gathering of practitioners, academics, researchers and interested individuals for a Children, Family and Nature workshop in Victoria. More details will be posted on our website. For more information contact info@thekeshotrust.org
Efforts continue to assist the BC government with determining how they can adopt the children nature program into their existing programs. Meetings are being held at the Cabinet and senior staff level with ActNowBC and various ministries including the Ministry of Environment, BC Parks and the Ministry of Advanced Education. In particular we are requesting their assistance with a province-wide youth gathering and a meeting with influential businesses and corporations.
Rick Curtis of the Alberta Recreation and Parks Association is moving ahead on a number of fronts related to our work --- to review his initiatives check www.arpaonline.ca
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The Parks Canada (Palisades) Stewardship Education Centre is embarking upon a project to transform an historic ranch in Jasper National Park into a vibrant youth education center with the objective of cultivating stewards of the future for the national parks and national historic sites of Canada. This project presents an image of a national youth stewardship education centre set in the heart of a national park and in the centre of a UNESCO World Heritage Site that will lead the country in stewardship education and training.
It is nice to hear how our Nature Child Reunion effort resonates for people both near and far away. We are delighted to welcome Joaquin Leguia to our network and hope that he will be able to join us at the workshop next year in Victoria. Check out what he is doing in Peru at: www.mundodeania.org
There have been two legislative initiatives in the United States that are of interest:
1. Children's Bill of Rights in California led by Governor Schwarzenegger (see: http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/proclamation/6883/ )
2. The No Child Left Inside Act introduced into the US Congress and Senate. http://www.cbf.org/site/PageServer?pagename=act_sub_actioncenter_federal_NCLB
Two excellent papers if you haven't seen them:
1. Videophilia: Implications for Childhood Development and Conservation. Journal of Developmental Processes 2(1), Spring 2007. http://www.videophilia.org/uploads/JEM.pdf
2. Outdoor play spaces in Canada: The safety dance of standards as policy. The online version is at http://csp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/1/128
We welcome ideas, suggestions, notes of your activities, links, etc. Please contact us at: info@thekeshotrust.org
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