| 2008 International Urban Parks Conference focuses on active living through parks by alynsen |
With more than half of the world’s population now living in cities, urban parks and green spaces have a more important role than ever. Parks connect people to nature, provide spaces for relaxation an...
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| Report Finds City Schools Suffer Playground Deficit by alynsen |
By HOPE HODGENew York SunJune 23, 2008
New York elementary schools are woefully lacking in outdoor play spaces, with nearly half of all schools having no playground for recess, and schools in...
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| Community builds playground by alynsen |
Parents, clubs, businesses provide money for school facility in poor neighborhood
By Cathy Spaulding Muskogee (Okla.) Daily PhoenixJune 21, 2008
Sixth-grader Kayla Royse said she didn’t ...
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| Playground aflame by alynsen |
Police say young people caught on tape setting fire
By ROBIN FITZGERALDBiloxi Sun-Herald
GULFPORT -- Surveillance cameras at Bel-Aire Elementary filmed several young people as they gathe...
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| Building ultimate playground by alynsen |
5-year-old leads charge to create eco-friendly park
By Rob DanielIowa City Press-CitizenJune 21, 2008
Last fall, Jim Cochran's next-door neighbor, Jay Dean, planned to get rid of the ba...
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| No more playing around by alynsen |
By Babs JohnsonTimes-Picayune (New Orleans)June 20, 2008
FEMA's slow response to the restoration of New Orleans' public ball fields and playgrounds shows a sweeping disregard for those who ha...
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| Kids take the lead on playground project by alynsen |
BY DEBORAH MEDENBACHMiddletown (N.Y.) Times Herald-RecordJune 18, 2008
NEW PALTZ — A "candy mint" crab apple tree was planted Tuesday morning near the new Lenape Elementary School playground...
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| Playground or power generator? by alynsen |
By Sam PenrodKSL NewsJune 18th, 2008
A humanitarian-aid project is bringing electric light to an area of the world that has never seen electricity before.
It was coordinated by some BYU enginee...
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| How America's Children Packed On the Pounds by alynsen |
By JEFFREY KLUGER TIME MagazineJune 12, 2008
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Obese boys and girls are already starting to develop the illnesses of excess associated with people in their 40s and beyond: heart dis...
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| Natural playground comes to Waterbury by alynsen |
By Molly WalshBurlington (Vt.) Free PressJune 16, 2008
WATERBURY — In the bright morning sunshine, three little girls scampered across a dirt path, jumped on boulders, twirled on the stage o...
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| Fear can limit joys of childhood by alynsen |
By Eve PearlmanSan Jose Mercury NewsJune 16, 2006
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Media coverage of accidents and crimes, says Stearns, amplifies our fears and distorts our perception of risk — and too, he says,...
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| 'Where will we take them?' by alynsen |
Toddlers and nannies rely on Grant Park playground doomed by museum
BY MARK J. KONKOL Chicago Sun-TimesJune 13, 2008
Before naptime Thursday morning, a bunch of New Eastside nannies lugg...
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| Delay-plagued playground set to open by alynsen |
The Philadelphia InquirerJune 13, 2008 By Jeff Shields
The sparkling new George C. Pelbano Playground and the Northeast Older Adult Center are impressive additions to Bustleton Avenue, where ...
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| Shiny new playground offers preschoolers with disabilities lots of fun options by alynsen |
By Jessica Harding Schenectady (N.Y.) Gazette ReporterJune 12, 2008
AMSTERDAM — The children at Clover Patch Preschool patiently waited Wednesday for a chance to play on their new playground,...
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| Students choose EVOS for new playground supported by Grable grant by alynsen |
Students had their say in look of new Community Day playground
By Susan JacobsJewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh
When students return to Community Day this fall, they will have a new playgro...
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| Sad end for All Children's Playground by alynsen |
By Joe ByrnesOcala (Fla.) Star-BannerJune 11, 2008
Ocala's decision to raze All Children's Playground came as a shock to me because I was used to seeing it during walks at Tuscawilla Park.
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| Volunteers build playground to help boy recovering from accident by alynsen |
Volunteers build playground to brighten boy's tough year
By JUAN PEREZ JR.Des Moines RegisterJune 9, 2008
It's been a difficult year for Jacob Asher.The 4-year-old was critically injured last Apri...
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| "Recycled Park" created in Mexico, with help from KaBOOM! resources by alynsen |
On May 24th, 2008 more than 400 people joined together as a community to build a safe, innovative and beautiful park for children in San Pancho, Mexico. This project, known as RECICLA PARQUE (Recycled...
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| Rise in childhood obesity rate evens out; consequences for rise still expected by alynsen |
Rise in U.S. childhood obesity flattens outJune 1, 2008 New Scientist The childhood obesity epidemic in the U.S. may have peaked, but its detrimental effects on health have barely begun.
The propor...
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| New high-tech playground designed to fight childhood obesity by alynsen |
Cutting-edge park aimed at fighting childhood obesity
By Patrick KnoxBasingstoke (U.K.) GazetteJune 9, 2008
A PROPOSED outdoor sports park in Chineham will feature cutting-edge technolog...
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