There is wealth of literature around the importance of connecting in/with/to places, particularly local outdoor places, for mental, physical, and socio-emtoinal health and wellbeing of individuals, communities, and societies; for the development and practice of a sustainability/environmental ethic; and as a means towards creating authentic, meaningful, and just learning experiences.The Place-based Education and Local Outdoor Learning thread weaves together emergent research and practice from these two fields, inviting specific consideration of time spent outdoors (TSO) in relation to in-/non- and formal learning contexts, local curricular mandates, teacher education and professional development, health and wellbeing, ethics, pedagogy, and more. Contributions of place-based and local outdoor learning notions from various environmental education related fields are welcomed, for example: sustainability education, adventure education, health education, physical education, science education, social studies education, and others.If the "average North American spends less than 10% of their life outdoors" (see Architecture and Green Design theme), then efforts being made to counter this unhealthy (in the broadest sense) trend, and increase TSO during learning experiences, are important to discuss. Through a sharing of our stories, potential for action (in an Arendtian sense) occurs. Through action, there emerges possibility to shift of our work and appreciate our labour.