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The new American Girl doll enjoys a wild life. Let us explain. - National Wildlife

Many will once again resolve to get organized or lose ten pounds in the new year, but National Wildlife Federation (NWF) is recommending a resolution with profound impacts because it recaptures an essential part of childhood, outdoor play. By making the 2010 Be Out There Resolution to spend more time outside in 2010, Americans will be making a resolution that’s both good for their families and fun to keep. Everyone who makes the 2010 Be Out There Resolution will receive the Know, Go and Grow Be Out There Toolkit with important facts, fun tips and interactive tools to help them keep the resolution. - National Wildlife

Bergen Community College’s student-led initiatives toward raising awareness about sustainability and creating an environmentally friendly campus were recently cited in a new report issued by the National Wildlife Federation that detailed the ways students are creating a sustainable future at U.S. colleges and universities by cutting carbon emissions and saving resources. The report “Generation E: Students Leading for a Sustainable, Clean Energy Future” stands for the three “E’s” of sustainability: ecology, sustainable economics, and social equity. - National Wildlife

Be Out There Resolution to Know, Go and Grow in 2010 (PRWeb Dec 28, 2009) - National Wildlife

In partnership with the national nonprofit organization, the National Wildlife Federation, American Girl is supporting the Be Out There campaign, which connects families to the outdoors to help them raise healthier, happier kids, and encourage a life-long appreciation of nature. - National Wildlife

If you’re working on your list of New Year’s resolutions, the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) is recommending a resolution with profound impacts that will make you feel like a kid again. The National Wildlife Federation is asking Americans to “Be Out There” with outdoor activities play among children and their families. Celebrity naturalist David Mizejewski says many benefits come with playing outdoors. “There are studies that show that kids are a lot more creative if they go outside to play. That just makes logical sense. If you’re constantly in a structured scheduled environment typically indoors, you don’t get to be creative and come up with your own solutions to problems,” says Mizejewski. - National Wildlife

with American Girl, one with tips for parents, the other aimed at children (www.nwf.org/BeOutThere). - National Wildlife

If there’s one thing I wish for everybody for the coming year, it’s to spend more time in nature. It will make you happier, healthier, smarter and quite possibly better looking. (Hey, it can’t hurt.) But according to the National Wildlife Federation, many kids are only spending four to seven minutes outside a day. Kid or adult – you need to get outside. - National Wildlife

American Girl has partnered with the National Wildlife Foundation to educate young girls and better their appreciation for nature through a downloadable curriculum designed for third through fifth grades. The program includes activities and discussions. The curriculum and the rules for the contest are available at the Web site www.americangirl.com/girloftheyear. - National Wildlife

Danielle Brigida is the social media outreach coordinator at the National Wildlife Foundation, and serves as a guiding light for those in the nonprofit world who are trying to expand their following using social media. She admits to being a wildlife geek interested in the environment, social media, nature, green techno - National Wildlife

Peggy Duvette of Wiser Earth wrote up a nice summary of the session including this summary of the techniques used by Brigida to publicize NWF's GreenHour.org. (Disclosure: Forum One built the site.): - National Wildlife

American Girl is partnering with the National Wildlife Federation to encourage parents to get their children outside for at least one Green Hour per day. Nature interactions help children to be healthier both mentally and physically, less stressed and depressed, and able to concentrate better in school to retain more information. - National Wildlife

PORTLAND, Ore. - The year 2009 is dotted with important milestones for the conservation community in Oregon. For starters, the state got more than 200,000 new acres of federally designated wilderness, created in March with passage of the Omnibus Wilderness Act. - National Wildlife

Most importantly, by giving our children a "Green Hour" a day -- a bit of time for unstructured play and interaction with the natural world -- we can set them on the path toward physical, mental, and emotional well-being. And at GREENHOUR.ORG, you'll find inspiration and ideas to do just that. Each week we publish a fresh issue full of activities and information to help guide the exploration and focus on fun. - National Wildlife

American Girl designed Lanie precisely to help reverse the negative effects of these alarming trends, and has partnered with the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) in support of the organization's Be Out There campaign, which connects families to the outdoors in an effort to help them raise healthier, happier kids and encourage a lifelong appreciation of nature. American Girl has also worked with NWF to develop free classroom curriculum materials for grades 3 to 5, which can be downloaded from the 2010 Girl of the Year Web site starting January 1. - National Wildlife

Don't look now, but there's an American Girl in the garden. The company that brought us a line of historical dolls - from Addy, a runaway slave, to Kaya, the American Indian girl, to the Revolutionary War's Felicity and World War II's Molly - is introducing Lanie, "a thoughtful, energetic girl who discovers the world in her own backyard." - National Wildlife

"New York residents want to see wildlife and people protected with strong environmental standards," stated Emily Maxwell, Regional Representative, National Wildlife Federation. "The drilling for natural gas in New York's precious watersheds and natural areas should protect these valuable resources for generations to come. The State of New York must uphold this high standard in designing new standards that will regulate these natural gas drilling activities." - National Wildlife

Activists seize upon weather headlines in the hope that the public will believe they are linked to climate change, even when they are not. Recent wildfires are also cited as evidence of climate change. The National Wildlife Federation claimed that “Warmer temperatures are also to blame for the invasion of mountain pine beetles, which have already decimated over 32 million acres of forest in Washington and British Columbia.” - National Wildlife

The nonprofit National Wildlife Federation wants people to resolve that they’ll get outside and play more in 2010. - National Wildlife

By making the 2010 Be Out There Resolution to spend more time outside in 2010, Americans will be making a resolution that’s both good for their families and fun to keep. Everyone who makes the 2010 Be Out There Resolution will receive the Know, Go and Grow Be Out There Toolkit with important facts, fun tips and interactive tools to help them keep the resolution. - National Wildlife

National Wildlife Foundation commands: ‘BE OUT THERE!” - Exactly - you heard it here… you read it here, over and over and over. Now it’s a movement, building upon Richard Louv’s seminal book, Last Child in the Woods. Well, I’m writing about LAST GROWNUPS IN THE WOODS! - National Wildlife

Reply #8: I get a lot of junk mail from both the NRDC and National Wildlife Foundation - National Wildlife

The National Wildlife Federation lists these “consequences of an indoor childhood”: - National Wildlife

15. Grace insults Colonel Quaritch by calling him “Ranger Rick.” I don’t get it. Ranger Rick is a park ranger, not an Army ranger. And he was a gentle raccoon, not a delusional murderer. - National Wildlife

@starfocus tweets from a fierce wildlife protector who works for the National Wildlife Federation and uses social media networks to protect wildlife and the environment, learn, and explore. (WiserEarth Profile: starfocus) - National Wildlife

Washington, Dec 26 (ANI): More than 80 percent of Americans surveyed in a new poll support action to limit carbon pollution and move the U.S. toward a clean energy future. Results of the survey released by the National Wildlife Federation show that … - National Wildlife

Here is a conference that is free to attend. It promotes gardens in the school systems. I think this is a GREAT way to learn how we can teach our children to eat healthier and choose better food to eat. - National Wildlife

Here is a conference that is free to attend. It promotes gardens in the school systems. I think this is a GREAT way to learn how we can teach our children to eat healthier and choose better food to eat. - National Wildlife

This week the National Wildlife Federation claimed two-thirds of Americans want federal limits on greenhouse gases! Surely a Congress desperate to do something popular will hop on board this train? Not likely - National Wildlife

Experts and activists may debate its significance for years. Some, like Jeremy Symons, who watched the talks for the National Wildlife Federation, said it was “high drama and true grit on the part of the president that delivered the deal.” - National Wildlife

This week the National Wildlife Federation claimed two-thirds of Americans want federal limits on greenhouse gases! Surely a Congress desperate to do something popular will hop on board this train? Not likely. - National Wildlife