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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 youngest 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...

A bill with unanimous, bipartisan support at every stage still didn't make it through — what Ten Strands' thirteen-year arc teaches about building something that outlasts a single vote. I went to outdoor science school in sixth grade — a week away from home, in the mountains, with the rest of my class. I don't remember being especially excited about it beforehand. I remember cabins that smelled like cedar, a night hike where someone made us turn off our flashlights, and coming home talking...

How Jackie Ostfeld of the Sierra Club is closing the nature gap — and why getting one million kids outdoors is ultimately a money question. Scott's 4th graders hiking in the California Desert A few years ago I took my fourth-grade class to Joshua Tree National Park. We used their free Every Kid Outdoors passes — one per family, covering an entire school year of national parks and public lands. We went rock climbing. We told ghost stories that weren't actually scary (a golden screwdriver was...