Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder, to speak at Sarah Lawrence College
Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder, which has stimulated a global conversation about the future relationship between children and nature and has helped spawn an international movement, will present the Sarah Lawrence College Child Development Institute’s 2009 Longfellow lecture on Friday, March 13 at 4:30 p.m. in Reisinger Auditorium. An informal reception will follow. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Child Development Institute cdi@slc.edu or (914) 395-2630.
Author and journalist, Louv has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many other newspapers and magazines. He has appeared on the "CBS Morning Show," "Good Morning America," the "Today Show," "CBS Evening News," "NBC Nightly News," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," and other programs. He speaks frequently to audiences in the United States and abroad and he has served as an adviser to the Ford Foundation’s Leadership for a Changing World award program and the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.
Louv serves as chairman of the Children & Nature Network, an organization helping to build the international movement to connect children with nature. He also serves as honorary co-chair of The National Forum on Children and Nature. He is the recipient of the 2008 Audubon Medal; past recipients have included Rachel Carson, E.O. Wilson, Robert Redford, and Jimmy Carter. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at Clemson University.