Power of a Nature-Rich Life

Guest Bio: Richard Louv, Author

Richard Louv is a journalist and author of eight books, including Last Child in the Woods and The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Digital Age. His books, which helped launch an international movement to connect children and families to nature, have been published in twenty countries.

Louv is co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Children & Nature Network, which is helping to build the movement to connect people and communities to the natural world. He also serves as honorary co-chair of Canada’s Child in Nature Alliance.

As a journalist and commentator, he has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Times in London, Orion, Outside, and many other newspapers and magazines. He was a longtime columnist for the San Diego Union-Tribune and Parents magazine.

Louv appears frequently on national radio and television programs, including the Today Show, CBS Evening News, and NPR’s Fresh Air, and he often addresses national and international gatherings. In 2010, he delivered the plenary keynote at the national conference of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and in 2012 was keynote speaker at the first White House Summit on Environmental Education.

In 2008, Louv was honored with the Audubon Medal. Prior recipients include Rachel Carson, E.O. Wilson and Jimmy Carter. He has also received the San Diego Zoological Society Conservation Medal, the George B. Rabb Conservation Medal from the Chicago Zoological Society, the International Making Cities Livable Jane Jacobs Award, and the Cox Award, Clemson University’s highest honor for “sustained achievement in public service.”

The father of two adult sons, he lives with his wife in San Diego, California, and would rather hike than write.