Episode 26 - Growing Children’s Connections with Nature with Laura Mylan
In this episode, Sustainable Futures sits down with award-winning communicator and seasoned nonprofit executive Laura Mylan, the Chief Strategy Officer of the Children and Nature Network. Laura is a passionate advocate for enhancing children’s access to nature and natural spaces to live and play in across the United States. She draws upon her wealth of experience to facilitate connections and lead the way in ensuring that all children have safe and equitable spaces in which to engage with nature to enhance their physical and mental wellbeing. Join us for a conversation on the powerful impact nature has on our and our children’s development and mentality, and what her organization is doing to support citizens and educators in new and interesting ways to facilitate connections with the natural world.
Guest
Laura Mylan
Children & Nature Network
Laura Mylan is an award-winning communicator and seasoned nonprofit executive. Her background includes leadership roles in the nonprofit sector, city government, riverfront redevelopment, and public relations and advertising agencies. She is a Master Naturalist and a Marshall Memorial Fellow. Laura leads C&NN’s external relations team in making the case for nature connection; growing the international children and nature movement; and supporting C&NN’s work in communities across the U.S. She serves as editor of Finding Nature News and is inspired daily by the work of children and nature advocates around the world.
Host
Steven Peck, GRP, HASLA
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities
Steven spearheaded the first green roof demonstration project on Toronto City Hall 20 years ago and the mandatory green roof policy in Toronto a decade ago. This innovative policy has resulted in more than 6 million additional square feet of green space across the city. Due to Steven’s work, GRHC has helped to win green roof policy victories in San Francisco, Washington, DC; Portland, Oregon; and Denver, Colorado. Steven also founded Green Infrastructure Ontario coalition to bring together organizations that share an interest in the protection and development of green infrastructure in Ontario. In 2007 he co-founded the World Green Infrastructure Network, an international organization that promotes the use of green infrastructure around the world.
