Tag Archive: nature

Is Outdoor Education Here To Stay?

Catherine Sherriffs

The lazy days of summer are behind us, and many kids worldwide are back in school, but education looks nothing like it did before COVID-19 hit. To keep the disease from spreading, students are exchanging poorly-ventilated and cramped classrooms for the great outdoors. Some say it’s an idea we might even see outlive the pandemic!…

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Environmental Wake-Up Call: Getting Back To Our Roots

It’s something that needs to be discussed, and yet so many people remain silent. Mental health knows no boundaries and can affect people from all walks of life. It would seem that despite all of our technological advances and potential, we’ve lost sight of ourselves and planet earth. We don’t regard ourselves as highly as the machines we seek; we are close to the point of becoming utterly reliant on them.
December 9, 2019
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Nature Can Make Us Happier, Healthier, and Smarter

There is something to be said for exchanging four walls and a smartboard for the outdoors. Nature, after all, is one of the world’s greatest classrooms. I recently attended the inauguration ceremony for an outdoor classroom built at my kids’ elementary school. They named it the “Nature and Curiosity Wild Space“. The timber frame structure…
June 21, 2019
Catherine Sherriffs

How Technology Is Copying Nature To Get Important Work Done

Somebody once told me that the most civilized model for business is nature. He told me if people would stop fighting nature and look to it instead for inspiration and common sense, they would find the answers they need to succeed. A successful businessman himself, James Cox runs Method Seven, a company that designs grow…
November 9, 2018
Catherine Sherriffs

Climate Change Predicted 200 Years Ago

Okay, that’s exaggerated a tad. Technically, it’s only been 171 years –  but the causes of climate change were studied and noted earlier than that. Since the conclusions were not published until 1844, we’ll have to go with the official date of the predictions. It’s most unfortunate that no one was paying much attention. They were far…
September 18, 2015
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