‘Kids must spendtime with nature’

Lucknow: City-based teens group Eco Buddies organised the second session of Model City Summit here on Saturday where expert stressed on the need for the kids to spend some time with nature. Keynote speaker for the occasion was Anupama Prakash, provost and executive vice chancellor, University of Alaska Fairbanks.“Children should spend some time in the lap of nature as it has unique ways of communicating with humans and respecting these methods can help strike a balance between the two elements of life. Communication and respect for nature would help in keeping the bane of climate change away,” said Prakash -- a native of Lucknow.Upholding that India cannot become a superpower unless the power and energy of purposefully driven youth fuel modern cities, Eco Buddies works to create awareness on issues of environment and climate change vis-a-vis urbanisation and its implications like deforestation, increasing slums, rising burden of plastic waste among other.