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I love Bill Nye. This is great. Blue jean insulation! You've got to watch the video on the page.

A Science Guy’s Place in the Sun: How Bill Nye keeps his home humming with solar panels, energy-efficient windows and a range of green gadgets.

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Interesting article about the benefits of hiking on focus and creative ability.

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Excellent article about the importance of children’s interactions with nature and designing good outdoor play/learning spaces.

Design highlights:

schoolyards most conducive to environmental learning were unstructured, e.g., forest areas, not specifically designed for children’s play

the greater the diversity of the natural landscapes, the greater children’s appreciation of nature and experiences in it

when schools use the context of local areas and naturalized schoolyards in their instructional practices, academic performance improves (e.g. EIC)

combined formal learning and informal positive experiences in naturalized environments have the most positive benefits

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The average American child spends more than 7 hours each day with entertainment media.

- The US Census Bureau

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Real Tuition and Fees at a Public, Four-Year College and Average Earnings for Full-Time Workers aged 25-34 with Bachelor’s Degree Only [2000-2010]

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"A common misconception of a watershed is that it’s all about the water.  While water does play a large part, the land plays an even larger role by directing the water to a common point, such as a river or ocean. Thus Man’s treatment of the land directly affects the water that runs over it."

- Jeffrey Rich

Jeffrey Rich's photos highlight the relationship between the land, water, and man, within the French Broad Watershed. What a great project!

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Would love to host a screening of this film.

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Wappinger Creek in the Village of Wappingers Falls on October 29, 2012.

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On November 10, 2012, NCLI went hiking at Fahnstock State Park. We brought a couple of friends to get them outside and learn a little more about the environment. We hiked about 6 miles and it was a lot fun! If you’ve never been hiking, what are you waiting for? Get outside and try something new!

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What happens in a day in the life of the Hudson River? Well, we went through a training so on “A Day in the Life of the Hudson River” (or snapshot day as it use to be called) we could help teach a lucky 4th and 5th grade class of the local Elementary school. We taught kids how to seign for fish and how to identify some of the local fish. They learned about tide and how the Hudson is one of the only rivers with a tide, #awesome. They learned a little about the pH of the water (how acidic or basic a certain liquid is). The kids also got to put on waders, which were much too big for them, and took a sample of the dirt and mud under the water. They learned to think of the age of the ground horizontally (young ground is on the top and older ground is on the bottom). At the end of the day, one of the teachers started a fun game so the kids could have some fun, all of us NCLI members joined in and we had a lot of fun too. We took this picture after we were finished packing up.

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An essay written by Richard Louv, author of the Nature Principle and Last Child in the Woods.

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Great post by the NCLI educators about what electroshocking is. They participated in a project this summer with the NYS DEC Hudson River Estuary Program staff that collected data on the types and number of fish found in a section of the Fall Kill Creek.

ELECTROSHOCKING! This is a technique that samples fish, using an electrical current in the water. The shock stuns them which causes them to stop moving. In return they float to the surface.We sampled the Fallkill Creek with the NYS DEC Hudson River Estuary Program. It was a great time! (No fishes were harmed in the process.)

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Who we are

No Child Left Inside is a program of Cornell Cooperative Extension Dutchess County. The mission of the program is to give youth the opportunity to get outdoors and connect with nature while also learning more about the environment and how to protect it. We will be posting photos from our outdoor adventures and sharing some of what we have been learning and teaching others. We hope you enjoy and maybe even learn something new.

Check out our About Us page for more information.

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Welcome to our page. We hope you enjoy the pictures from our adventures and are encouraged to appreciate the value of our natural world.

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HUT “Hermitage” by Ethan Hayes-Chute

Artist Ethan Hayes-Chute lives and works in Freeport, Maine & Berlin, Germany. Through paintings, sculptures, large-scale installations and artist’s books, he explores the ideas of self-sufficiency, self-preservation and self-exclusion as models for living. Hayes-Chute’s hut is an accumulation of stuff, the ephemera of the every day. Its materials are found, stitched together, hand-assembled – chair, desk, table, shaving mirror, and coffee mug furnish the cabin’s primary function to house and sustain.