Welcome to Green Hearts!
Bringing Children
and Nature
Back Together!
Green Hearts is a nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to restoring and strengthening the bonds between children
and nature.
We believe that frequent, unstructured childhood play in natural settings is a crucial stage in the development of life-long conservation values -- and thus helps lead to adult conservation behaviors.
This kind of "nature play" is now an endangered part of American childhood. Green Hearts' mission is to help bring it back.
American children
spend 27% of their time
with electronic media.
How much do they
spend outdoors?
Check out our
Nature Play Factoids
for the answer!
New --
for Environmental Educators and Conservationists:
Design Principles for Nature Play Design
for Environmental Educators and Conservationists:
Design Principles for Nature Play Design
Designing landscapes for nature play is increasingly common, but should a nature play area at a nature center necessarily look the same as one designed for preschools?
Check out Green Hearts' new Design Principles for Nature Play Spaces to spark your own thinking!
"The most effective kind of
education is that a child should
play amongst lovely things."
-- Plato
Support
Green Hearts!
Did you dig holes to China, climb trees, and catch fireflies when you were a kid? Do you want today's children to have similar memories?
Restoring nature play is Green Hearts' work, and we need your help! Can you support us with a gift of $100, $50, or just $25?
Tax-deductible donations can be made with the link below. Thank you!
Restoring nature play is Green Hearts' work, and we need your help! Can you support us with a gift of $100, $50, or just $25?
Tax-deductible donations can be made with the link below. Thank you!
