Richard Louv - Putting an end to NDD
Recently, my wife Belinda and I attended Vancouver's EPiC conference on sustainability. Richard Louv (pictured below) and George Strouboulopoulos (CBC talk show host) were guest speakers. Louv has popularized the term 'Nature-Deficit Disorder' in his book Last Child in the Woods . It's a good read. Here's a taste... "In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia , a 'dangerous form of spiritual alienation' -- a devaluing of the world and its creator." He now has a new book out - The Nature Prinicipal: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder. It's on my to-read list.