Richard Louv - Career

Career

Louv was a columnist for The San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper between 1984 and 2007, its last manifestation titled The Future’s Edge. He has been a columnist and member of the editorial advisory board for Parents magazine and a Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World award program adviser. He also was an adviser for the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child . He currently is honorary co-chair of The National Forum on Children and Nature, which is co-chaired by four state governors, a Visiting Scholar at Clemson University, and chairman and co-founder of the Children & Nature Network, a non-profit organization. In 2008, the National Audubon Society awarded Louv its highest honor, the Audubon Medal. He was the 2007 recipient of Clemson University's Cox Award for "sustained achievement in public service," and received the Paul K. Petzoldt Award from the Wilderness Education Association. The U.S. Department of the Interior, and associations such as the Sierra Club, The Trust for Public Land, and The Nature Conservancy have cited Louv's book.