- Home
- Region
- World/Nation
- Politics
- Health/Science
- Business
- Arts
- Posts
- Sports
- Multimedia
- Community Voices
AaronGleeman.com
Twins blog
Almanac
Twin Cities Public Television
KSTP.com
5 Eyewitness News
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
Statewide association of nonprofit organizations
Minnov8
MN web tech news
ThisWeekLive.com
Dakota County news
Affiliates publish the MinnPost news widget. For information, email jkramer [at] minnpost [dot] com
UNIVERSITY NEWS SERVICE
Audio report: Nature deficit disorder
Marti Erickson talks about the positive impact of connecting kids with the outdoors.
In lives filled with cartoon characters wearing square pants, video games and shrinking backyards, many American children are suffering from "nature deficit disorder," a condition associated with kids who spend less time outdoors. Marti Erickson, director of the Harris Programs at the University of Minnesota, says connecting kids and the outdoors has a positive impact from head to toe. Listen to this audio report.
From Our Partners | Mon, Apr 7 2008 10:48 am |
Comment
Recent stories from our partners
- Twin Cities Daily Planet: From Oromia to Minnesota, with love and coffee
- From Our Partners | 7/24/08
- Macalester Today: Loans, logic and access
- From Our Partners | 7/23/08
- UMN News: Lions caught in the crossfire
- From Our Partners | 7/22/08
- Twin Cities Daily Planet: Teens take a stand against human trafficking
- From Our Partners | 7/21/08
- Walker Art Center: What, exactly, is an artist book?
- From Our Partners | 7/18/08
- A View from The Loft: In defense of driving
- From Our Partners | 7/17/08
- Twin Cities Daily Planet: 'REmix' looks at Hmong art and literature through generations
- From Our Partners | 7/16/08
- Twin Cities Daily Planet: Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder turns 75
- From Our Partners | 7/15/08
- UMN News: MySpace, Facebook are more than cyberspace hangouts
- From Our Partners | 7/14/08
- MNArtists.org: A filmmaker's guide to getting your movie on (the right) screen
- From Our Partners | 7/11/08
- Soundbyte: Can a car run on E. coli?
- From Our Partners | 7/10/08
- ThreeSixty: Many low-income voters fear their votes don't count
- From Our Partners | 7/9/08
- UMN News: Collision course
- From Our Partners | 7/8/08
- HometownSource.com: Politically hot post beckoned MnDOT commissioner
- From Our Partners | 7/7/08
- Twin Cities Daily Planet: Cell phones relay news of crimes and crisis in Ethiopia
- From Our Partners | 7/3/08
- MNSCU: Helping veterans: 'It's the right thing to do'
- From Our Partners | 7/2/08
- Walker Art Center: The UnConvention: unscripting the political convention
- From Our Partners | 7/1/08
- UMN News: The afterlife of a mattress
- From Our Partners | 6/30/08
- Twin Cities Daily Planet: On Stonewall anniversary, transgender activists remind LGBT movement of its roots
- From Our Partners | 6/27/08
- MNArtists.org: The jury-of-one problem in art exhibitions
- From Our Partners | 6/27/08
- SCAN: Near normal
- From Our Partners | 6/26/08
- Twin Cities Daily Planet: Citoyen Consumer: Disengagement, disempowerment and corporate media bias
- From Our Partners | 6/25/08
- MNSCU: Taking the public pulse: St. Cloud State survey known for accurate election predictions
- From Our Partners | 6/24/08
- MNArtists.org: Minnesota's unsung wealth of cartoonists, comic artists
- From Our Partners | 6/23/08
- UMN News: Thinking outside the classroom: summer fun at the U
- From Our Partners | 6/20/08
- Twin Cities Daily Planet: Two philosophers throw journalism a lifeline
- From Our Partners | 6/19/08
- MNArtists.org: Writer, Interrupted
- From Our Partners | 6/18/08
- ThreeSixty Journalism: Smoking ambushes my brother
- From Our Partners | 6/17/08
- Twin Cities Daily Planet: KIPP is coming
- From Our Partners | 6/16/08
- MNArtists.org: The case for intelligent design
- From Our Partners | 6/13/08