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with nature and create a balance between nature and the ever evolving world of technology. ~ he says imagine a world in which all children grow up with a deep understanding of the life around them, where obesity is reduced through nature play, where children experience the joy of being in nature before they learn of its loss. where they can lie on the grass on a hillside for hours, and watch clouds become the faces of the future. where every child and every adult has a human right to a connection to the natural world and shares the responsibility for caring for it. that s the community, that s the world, that s the park that all of you have created today. and i want to say that while we re here looking at this amazing playground which, by the way, has the world s i m not kidding the world s longest monkey bars. woo-hoo! and as the father of a daughter who has broken not one, but two arms on monkey bars, i m extremely fired up about that. (applause) but this pa ....
family for their role, mohammed nuru and folks at department of public works had a role, lindsay hirsch. (applause) with all due respect to dpw and everybody else who is here, the hardest working staff in government is rec and park. gk, construction manager, mary hobson, project manager. [cheering and applauding] director of capital planning, don. our great operations staff, zach taylor, judy auberry who is here, and everyone else who has contributed to this incredible project. so, at rec and park, we re encoloneling people to get out and play. that s our tag line, get ready, 1, 2, 3. get out and play. we say that because of the importance of keeping our families active and healthy. this is a real serious issue. according to the center for disease control, childhood obesity has more than doubled in our children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years. in 2010 more than one-third of our children were overweight or obese. it is important that we get our ki ....
bertacelli. supervisor farrell. phil has been here every step of the way. this started with this started with two organizations that have now merged into a really wonderful one organization. those two former organizations were brought us two great people to work with. they were isabelle wade and karen kid well. i don t know if either one of them is here today. ~ now we have matt owe grade i speaking to you from the merge park trust. i m sorry, san francisco parks alliance. ~ we can t forget that, they re doing so much. this is our parks citizens parks group. okay, lizy hirsch, please come up. we want to raise hands with you. (applause) mary hobson. jeff miller. [cheering and applauding] okay. and carina bonamo who was this incredible playground in the most beautiful park in san francisco, we ve already heard that online. it is now officially the most beautiful park in san francisco. [cheering and applauding] with the most amazing playground. and this was a ....
gk, construction manager, mary hobson, project manager. [cheering and applauding] director of capital planning, don. our great operations staff, zach taylor, judy auberry who is here, and everyone else who has contributed to this incredible project. so, at rec and park, we re encoloneling people to get out and play. that s our tag line, get ready, 1, 2, 3. get out and play. we say that because of the importance of keeping our families active and healthy. this is a real serious issue. according to the center for disease control, childhood obesity has more than doubled in our children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years. in 2010 more than one-third of our children were overweight or obese. it is important that we get our kids outside. our children today average over 7-1/2 hours behind a screen. listen to that. 7-1/2 hours behind a screen, less than 30 minutes a day outside. that has to change. and this playground helps get it done. and i wanted to just o ....
quick quote from richard lu who is the author of a book called the nature principle which encourage uz us to reconnect with nature and create a balance between nature and the ever evolving world of technology. ~ he says imagine a world in which all children grow up with a deep understanding of the life around them, where obesity is reduced through nature play, where children experience the joy of being in nature before they learn of its loss. where they can lie on the grass on a hillside for hours, and watch clouds become the faces of the future. where every child and every adult has a human right to a connection to the natural world and shares the responsibility for caring for it. that s the community, that s the world, that s the park that all of you have created today. and i want to say that while we re here looking at this amazing playground which, by the way, has the world s i m not kidding the world s longest monkey bars. woo-hoo! and as the father of a da ....