02.06.2008 12:09 am

TV, Internet, video games are killing our interest in nature

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Our time spent with the TV, Internet and video games is taking away from time spent with nature, according to new research funded by The Nature Conservancy.

This growing penchant for “videophilia,” as the researchers described it, not only makes us…

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Tags: environment, health, Internet, nature, TV, video games, videophilia

01.22.2008 5:30 pm

Sierra Club proposes a tax against lazy children

By David Sheets

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Childhood obesity is increasing rapidly among America’s children. So are rates of diabetes and attention-deficit disorder, and overall academic scores are falling as a result.

So what’s the solution? According to the Sierra Club, we should tax those lazy twerps…

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Tags: computer, environment, Leave No Child Inside, outdoors, Sierra Club, tax, TV, video game