Are Americans Afraid of the Outdoors?

Yikes, we've been reading a little about this, and we're glad people are paying attention:

The solution may be as simple as getting kids into the woods or other natural areas in the company of parents, grandparents or other relatives. 'This isn't a bitter pill,' Louv says. "In order to give kids some semblance of unorganized activity in nature, we're probably going to have to organize a lot of it. It's a paradox we'll have to deal with with a sense of humor.' *** Putting more nature back into humanity's urban environments might not hurt either. 'Green urbanism is about efficiency, saving energy. That's important but ultimately it's kind of boring,' Louv says. 'Biophilic design is the idea that when we design nature into our cities really interesting things begin to happen.'