News
Shape NC Year Two Design Workshop and Training
Shape NC is a three-year, NLI comprehensive project. January 19/20, 2012, NLI conducted the Year Two Design Workshop at the College of Design, NC State University, with nearly forty representatives of ten Model Early Learning Centers (MELCs) from across North Carolina. The NLI team of landscape designers worked with each center to create a design program and conceptual site design for their Outdoor Learning Environment (OLE).
NC Children and Nature Coalition - Call for Presentators
NC Children and Nature Coalition's annual conference Call For Presentations is still open through January 31st. The conference will be held at the Haw River State Park on March 12.
Coming Together...Growing Stronger
Explore these topic areas at the 5th Annual NCCAN Conference : Education, Outdoor Recreation, Health, Built Environments, Family and Youth Involvement
Events
Growing In Place Symposium 2012
Design for Children, Families, and Nature in the City
Location: Marbles Kids Museum
201 East Hargett Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
2012 Theme: Parks, Pathways, and Meaningful Destinations
More and more people are living in cities. To encourage families to invest in urban domestic life, an infrastructure of attractive, traffic-protected routes is required to connect urban neighborhoods to meaningful destinations. Join us at this year's symposium focused on urban neighborhood design for children and families and the foundation it provides for health, well-being, and resource conservation in the 21st century.
9th Annual Natural Learning Design Institute
Design for Early Childhood: Health, Play and Learning
NC Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC
The 9th Annual Design Institute featured presentations by experts in safety, policy, and early childhood education combined with outdoor hands-on activities. The program offered innovative ideas and concepts for participants to implement back home.
Click here for more details from the 9th Annual Natural Learning Design Institute
