Get hooked on nature: Ben Klasky at TEDxRainier
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- As kids now spend more time with entertainment media, they're getting less and less time outdoors, despite the mental and physical health benefits. Ben Klasky, CEO of IslandWood, a 255-acre outdoor learning center, proposes a free and natural remedy to the physical problems kids face: the Great Outdoors.
Ben grew up in Minnesota where he spent lots of time outdoors. He serves as President and CEO of IslandWood, a nonprofit organization that helps tens of thousands of kids get out into nature. IslandWood's 255-acre headquarters is based on Bainbridge Island, WA, and features some of the most environmentally sustainable buildings in the world. The organization targets low-income, at-risk youth, and introduces them to roar of tree frogs, soaring bald eagles, and star-filled skies, helping them to discover natural connections with the outdoors.
He is the co-founder of Camp Galileo, which has grown into the largest set of day camps in the Bay Area; and he co-founded Board Fellows while earning his MBA and Masters in Education from Stanford. Board Fellows places business school students on nonprofit boards, and the model has been replicated at over 75 other business schools. Ben teaches a graduate class on Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs and a graduate class on Nonprofit Management.
This talk was given November 9, 2013 in Seattle at TEDxRainier, a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences.
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True spirituality with Nature is "What can I do for Nature?" Instead of "What can Nature do for me?"
7 Hours of screen time? Stop the world I want to get off. Brilliant talk, I love getting children outdoors thank you for sharing
very good .. well put and said.
" To put it as polite as possible , America , take a walk."
"When you're just a little bit out of your comfort zone, you're at peak learning."
When I was a kid my 6 brothers and sisters and 20 cousins were outside every day playing. There were kids everywhere ('70s). We had 4 different fields to play, play on tire swings, eat blackberries and grapes, and wild strawberries. We built forts in our yards in trees. Times have changed but we were out until 7pm. We walked to Religious Education on Sundays and on the trip home we picked up chestnuts. We drilled holes in them and put string through them and threw them up telephone lines. We made mud balls and threw them onto our neighbor's apartment buildings (which got us in trouble). On Halloween we went on about 20-25 streets, came home and dumped the candy and went out again. We had this one couple who gave us cider and doughnuts each Halloween. We were out until 10pm that night. I hope kids play more and put their phones and games away. Ask your parents what they did when they were kids. Enjoy nature, please.
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The problem it most of our parents don’t let us go outside when it’s what they did
@@Imago27292 yea ;,(
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"Take a sledge and break through the cement to plant a garden" Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Loved watching this, Ben! Excellent work ~ Inspiring, compelling, and necessary. Congrats!
Island Wood is one of the most powerfully transformative outdoor school, but getting children to walk out the back door and playing outside is the first step.
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Ben Klasky, I really enjoyed your Ted Talk and wanted to download your app but it is out of date. Any timeline on getting it updated?
Great job! It's good to be reminded of this.
Bravo Ben! This was a fantastic watch.
Heaps of great ideas here- thank you!
This was the most inspiring video on Tedx I've ever seen. I seriously need to get out more (after coronavirus) But I'm gonna start with being in my yard and gardening.
Thank you for the work you do, I live in Texas and summers are super HOT! Just this week we had a few heat advisories and I want to take my kid out on his bike but we have to wait until sundown and it’s still Hot and Humid! Then you get this thing about Skin Cancer etc...what gives???!!! This system is killing us slowly and we are allowing it! I appreciate your speech thank you I will find ways to get my son out more often, I will find a way’
Good job Ben!
Thanks for watching my TEDx Talk regarding the need to get children outdoors for their physical and mental health. Feel free to contact me via Twitter:@benklasky.
I recently moved to a small village in the Oxfordshire countryside. I go for walks everyday in the countryside surrounding the village. I never see gangs of kids out playing as we did when I was young. We were out after breakfast and back in the late afternoon. We roamed all over the place and had special places we would go and play. It is so sad not to see children doing the same. Instead they seem to spend time I their homes or out playing but supervised by their parents. They have lost something in not getting independent free space to play, explore, make decisions for themselves and grow.
Thanku for this video!!!
You rock Ben! Awesome presentation. Go LT 2008!
Yes!!
Everybody watching this as a student is 100% for homework.
Does anyone know the app he's talking about?
Actually, chickens on factory farms (which are the vast majority of chickens), live in windowless warehouses where they never see the outside. The only time they do is from holes in the truck when they are being transported to slaughter.
Even just 30 minutes outdoors like a nearby park is beneficial I've heard. Then, playing video games is fine for 2 hours or so I believe.
Kids being inside is usually the fault of overprotective idiots or over protective idiots outside. Ppl called the cops on a Mother for letting her kid take the bus alone to school.
Kaiser did the study, however, they require their staff and physicians to spend hours and hours at work and at home in front of a computer, entering endless data into electronic medical records (on which many of these studies are dependent. Ironic.
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First thing that came to my mind: Jake Gyllenhaal lookalike..
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Oh boy! You are missing one ginormous Elephant right in the middle of the room there Ben.
Kids spend more time in front of the Television/Internet or Playing VideoGames because the parents are completely stressed out and dead inside from the life they have to have. So they give kids those toys so they don't have to 1.worry 2.spend energy interacting with them 3.keep them busy with a somewhat harmless activity.
So if you want kids to be kids, you need shorter working hours, social safety nets for everyone therefore safer and more nurturing neighborhoods where people actually relate to one another.
It isn't another gadget that will solve this crisis, it is a change of paradigm. One that we will not see, because Corporations are happy the way things are. They get all the money and all the control and all the freedom to do whatever.
Intro To Psych, where you at? 👋
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Psychedelics should really help too
@@45AutOo Stick with the nature theme and do some magic mushrooms. 🍄🍄🍄🍄
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