ABOUT THE SHOW
Stories of people doing the
work
Hopeful by Nature travels the world to find the educators, parents, organizers, and community leaders who are connecting young people to the natural world through outdoor learning in ways that build something real. Each episode is a conversation with someone who refused to wait for permission — and built something anyway.
Hosted by Scott Shepherd, founder of Wildward Institute.
LATEST EPISODE
Less Screen Time, More Green Time – Craig Strang & Karen Cowe of Ten Strands
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with Jackie Ostfeld, Outdoors for All Director, Sierra Club
ABOUT THE EPISODE
A proposed settlement of up to $17 billion that raises questions about outdoor learning — and a real answer to whether hope actually works.
A few mornings ago, I was standing in my kitchen in Felton, scrolling through headlines about the climate, while my son sat at the table with a tablet. Neither of us was looking up. I noticed the familiar heaviness settle in, the kind that makes me want to either freeze or do something drastic, and I noticed that I was modeling exactly the posture I'd hate for my kids to learn.
Then my son looked up and asked if we could walk down to see whether the creek was running. We went. Nothing got solved on that walk, but I came back lighter, and not because I'd been reassured. I'd been handed something small and real to do with my hands and my attention.
That's the tension behind this week's conversation: screens on one side, the weight of the news on the other, and the question of what actually moves a person, or a kid, toward action.
