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Sierra Club Book Club – “Last Child In The Woods”
June 19, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
From the Sierra Club –
June’s book is “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder” by Richard Louv. This is one of my personal favorites.
From the author’s website:
“In this influential work about the 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 generation—he calls it nature-deficit—to some of the most disturbing childhood trends, such as the rises in obesity, attention disorders, and depression.
Last Child in the Woods is the first book to bring together a new and growing body of research indicating that direct exposure to nature is essential for healthy childhood development and for the physical and emotional health of children and adults. More than just raising an alarm, Louv offers practical solutions and simple ways to heal the broken bond—and many are right in our own backyard.”
July’s book is “The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One” by Sylvia Earl. Sylvia Earl is a modern day Jacques Cousteau. She is one of the most knowledgeable experts on the ocean as you’d ever find. She goes over the biggest issues affecting the ocean and then addresses what we can do to address them.
*The book club will be in Zilker Park at the Rock Garden Picnic Area (just uphill from the Zilker Outdoor Theater*