The Surgeon General, Parks and Your Health
The Surgeon General recently released a call to action - Step it Up! - encouraging everyone to walk more. "Walking is one of the easiest...
Parklets have come to Spokane
Today is PARKing Day - which started in 2005 as a grassroots effort to reclaim some cement and bring in a bit of green...even if only for...
Parks and Recreation: Partners in Health
This is a terrific article on the role that parks play in public health - from the standpoint of a health administrator. This article...
Kids in Parks: A Solution Presents Itself
It’s ironic that time outside during the school day has been reduced to allow more time for standardized test preparation when it’s that...
Kids in Parks: The Cost of Education
As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact...
Kids in Parks: An Overview
Decoding the human genome was impressive…But a child playing in the woods? That simple, time-honored image is at once magical, and...
Classrooms without rooms
Due to budget cuts, my 5th grade class didn't get to go to outdoor school. To this day I feel like I missed out. At the time, my sadness...
Health and Our Parks
There are SO MANY reasons that we need parks. But the health and future wellbeing of children is chief among them. Lately there has been...
What attaches you to your community?
I’ve been meaning to post a link to this site for quite some time. The real reason that I work for the Spokane Parks Foundation is not...
Fighting for a Healthier Community - One Park at A Time
The Centers for Disease Control estimates that 17% of children in the United States are obese. From 1980 to 2008 the obesity rate TRIPLED...
