Òyì nke e mepụtara

Nature and technology are for most people mutually exclusive realms. Many sympathize with Richard Louv’s judgment in Last Child in the Woods that generations born since the 1970s are increasingly victims to what he calls “nature-defi cit disorder.”1 Predictably, Louv’s primary culprits are television and the electronic devices that have come to occupy a disproportionate amount of our time—computers and game consoles in particular.