Less Screen Time, More Green Time Subtitle: A proposed settlement of up to $17 billion that raises questions about outdoor learning — and a real answer to whether hope actually works.

Most people haven't connected the proposed Meta settlement of up to $17 billion to outdoor learning yet. In Part 2 of this conversation, Karen Cowe and Craig Strang of Ten Strands make the case for what "responsible optimism" actually means when the stakes are this high — and answer a harder question: does hope actually work as a motivator, or do we need fear instead?

This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation. Part 1 covers AB 2158, now in Senate Appropriations with a hearing scheduled for September 28 — listen to that one first if you haven't.

In this episode:

• What the proposed multistate Meta settlement of up to $17 billion would fund if approved

• What it could mean for outdoor learning, and what it doesn't guarantee

• Karen's line for the whole conversation: "less screen time, more green time"

• The global movement toward outdoor learning — the UK, Maine, and beyond

• A real answer to whether hope or fear better motivates climate-era kids

• How to plug into this work, wherever you live

ABOUT KAREN COWE Founding CEO of Ten Strands. 🌐 tenstrands.org

ABOUT CRAIG STRANG Consultant; Associate Director Emeritus, Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley. 🌐 tenstrands.org

ABOUT YOUR HOST Scott Shepherd is the founder of Wildward Institute, based in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. 🌿 wildwardinstitute.net

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