Interesting reading from Sightline Daily - I like Richard Louv's book related to "no child left indoors" even if the sound bite smacks of a Bushism. After all, if a generation has no relationship to natural things in the natural world, why would they think there's anything worth protecting? I walked into a Kohls department store the other day in search of a toaster oven to replace our malfunctioning model and was stunned to think that the employees spend their entire day in a box with no windows with the current version of Muzak playing and the stench of new plastics. Then they get in their car, turn on the air conditioning and drive home. If they have a garage, they drive the car into the garage and never step foot outside. Once inside, flip on the TV or the computer and plug in for the rest of the evening. I think it's horrifying - how much of our population lives like this?
(BTW the exterior of this particular Kohls has fake windows plastered on the exterior of the building. I suppose this is to meet some kind of architectural design code for the local planning folks. Too bad they couldn't require real windows.)
http://daily.sightline.org/daily_score/archive/2010/06/02/screen-time-vs-green-time
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