 | Leading Voices Our Speakers Richard Louv
March 13, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
Washington National Cathedral
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Richard Louv is a journalist and author of eight books about the connections between family, nature and community. His new book is THE NATURE PRINCIPLE: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder, which offers a new vision of the future, in which our lives are as immersed in nature as they are in technology. This future, available to all of us right now, offers better psychological, physical and spiritual health for people of every age.
LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder, translated into 10 languages and published in 15 countries, has stimulated an international conversation about the relationship between children and nature. Louv is also the founding chairman of the Children & Nature Network (www.childrenandnature.org), an organization helping build the movement to connect today’s children and future generations to the natural world. Louv coined the term Nature-Deficit Disorder® which has become the defining phrase of this important issue.
Louv has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times of London, and other major publications. He has appeared on many national TV shows, including NBC’s Today Show and Nightly News, CBS Evening News, ABC’s Good Morning America, and NPR's Morning Edition, Fresh Air, and Talk of the Nation. Between 1984 and 2007 he was a columnist for The San Diego Union-Tribune and has been a columnist and member of the editorial advisory board for Parents magazine. Louv served as an advisor both to the Ford Foundation’s Leadership for a Changing World award program and to the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. He is on the board of directors of ecoAmerica and a member of the Citistates Group. He has appeared before the Domestic Policy Council in the White House as well as at major governmental and professional conferences, nationally and internationally, most recently as keynote speaker at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference. |
Po Bronson (Rescheduled for December 4, 2012)
Best-selling author Po Bronson is the author of five books, including the #1 New York Times best-seller What Should I Do With My Life? His most recent book, Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children, with co-author Ashley Merryman, explores the science of parenting, turning on its ear most current conventional wisdom on best parenting practices.
NurtureShock began as a series on the science of parenting with an article titled “How Not to Talk to Your Kids” which appeared in New York Magazine in 2007. After researching the most current science, Bronson and Merryman reported on the counterintuitive finding that constant praise has a negative effect on children. It quickly became the most emailed article in the history of the magazine, and the series won the magazine journalism award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as a Clarion Award.
Bronson’s other books include What Should I Do With My Life?, Why Do I Love These People?, The Nudist on the Late Shift, and the novels Bombardiers, and The First $20 Million is the Hardest. He has written for television, magazines, and newspapers, including TIME, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR’s Morning Edition. He is currently a regular contributor to New York Magazine in the US and The Guardian newspaper in the UK.
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Howard Gardner
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Michael Thompson
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Sandra Calvert
Christopher Cerf
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Alan November
David Elkind
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