March 30, 2015
Lecture April 2 looks at how to fill nature void for kids, adults
We are attached to our devices nearly 24/7. As our number of activities and time spent outdoors shrinks, it’s perhaps no coincidence that the larger society faces higher occurrences of depression, child and adult obesity and attention deficit disorder.
Molly Steinwald
Getting more people outside and engaged with nature is the topic of this year’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences annual Sustaining Our World Lecture, 6-7 p.m. Thursday, April 2, in Kane Hall 210. The talk is free and open to the public, and organizers ask attendees to preregister online.
Molly Steinwald, executive director of the Environmental Learning Center in Vero Beach, Florida, and a photographer, researcher and science and environmental educator, will speak about engaging the interests and needs of today’s diverse population and overcoming common barriers to getting outdoors in her talk, “Human[-]Nature: Care for Our World is Care for Ourselves.”
Steinwald previously served as director of science education and research at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh. She has more than 15 years of teaching experience ranging from undergraduate and graduate students to K-12 teachers in topics such as physiology, ecology, molecular biology and people-plant interactions.
Steinwald will talk about overcoming the growing human-nature divide through creative partnerships, reimagined environmental education and outreach programs and conservation efforts that mean something to today’s population. Read more about the talk on the school’s Offshoots blog.
