Speaking Calendar

• San Francisco Live, Marina Abramovic Institue West, 575 Sutter Street, San Francisco
  Sep 30, 2010 5:30pm - Sep 30, 2010 8:30pm
   
  
  Our River, Our Children, Our Future:
  Celebrating outdoor education and adventures
  with Richard Louv and the Tuolumne River Trust
  
  Please join the Tuolumne River Trust for a special evening with nationally acclaimed author Richard Louv to benefit our outdoor education and adventure programs. Meet youth who have participated in our programs and learn how we're planning to protect the Tuolumne for generations to come.
  
   
  San Francisco Live
  Marina Abramovic Institue West
  575 Sutter Street, San Francisco
  6:30pm - 8:30pm
  $15/$20
  ask about our meet-and-greet reception with Richard Louv at 5:30pm
  
  Modesto Reception and Live-stream
  Martin G. Petersen Event Center
  720 12th Street, Modesto
  5:30pm - 8:30pm
  $10/$15
  hosted by the Stanislaus County Office of Education
   
  For more information email karyn@tuolumne.org or call 1-888-994-3344
  
  Who should attend this event?
  Teachers, administrators, parents, students, politicians, foundation representatives, volunteers, outdoor enthusiasts, environmentalists, and anyone who cares about protecting our natural environment for generations to come.
  
  
• Richard Louv is speaking at the Children First symposium
  Oct 1, 2010 12:23pm - Oct 1, 2010 1:23pm
  Children First: Promoting Ecological Health for the Whole Child
  
  Registration now open, early bird $35
  
  Pediatric Integrative Medicine embraces a holistic, whole-child approach, specifically examining the context – the ecology – in which optimal health and wellness is promoted. This groundbreaking one-day symposium, co-hosted by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, The Whole Child Center and the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, will highlight a range of interacting factors that influence child health and development, including nutrition, education, socio-economic status, exposures to toxic chemicals, and access to preventive health care. Leaders in these fields of expertise will also describe model programs and concrete steps toward creating optimal and sustainable environments in which children can thrive and reach their full potential.
  
  This symposium is open to health professionals, research scientists, parents, school administrators, teachers, policymakers, city planners, nutritionists and all others concerned with ensuring children have the best possible environments in which to grow and develop. Note that the meeting will be held the day before the start of the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics in San Francisco.
  
  
• Richard Louv - Keynote for Blue Ridge Parkway 75 Symposium
  Oct 15, 2010 6:00pm - Oct 15, 2010 7:00pm
  
  
• The 2010 Built Environment and Outdoor Summit
  Oct 19, 2010 11:57am - Oct 20, 2010 12:57pm
  The Kansas Recreation and Park Association (KRPA) will conduct a two-day event entitled the 2010 Built Environment and Outdoor Summit.   According to event organizers, “The design of a community — where people live, work, learn and play — heavily influences their well-being. The built environment — its biking and walking spaces, access to fresh fruits and vegetables, and safety — all affect an individual’s ability to be active and eat healthy.” Participants will learn to identify resources that promote these ideals and how to affect environmental policy within a community.

  
  

  Keynote speakers will be Fran Mainella and Dan Burden. Mainella is currently a visiting scholar at Clemson University and was the 16th director of the National Park Service. She is a member of the board of directors for the Children and Nature Network and is co-chair of the U.S. Play Coalition. Mainella’s session, “The Value of Play and Reconnecting to the Outdoors,” will address the crisis and consequences — obesity and emotional and mental disorders — of play deprivation. Mainella will focus on author Richard Louv’s “nature deficit disorder” and the important role parks and recreation play in solving this growing problem.

  
  

  Burden is co-founder and executive director of the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute in Port Townsend, Wash. Burden will discuss building healthy, sustainable, livable and walkable communities — with a focus on active transportation, smart growth, and green streets — to create thriving communities, with a focus on how transportation policy and land-use initiatives create healthy and safe environments that promote physical activity.

  
  

  The public is invited, but event organizers encourage the attendance of architects, city administrators, construction and project managers, developers, engineers, environmental professionals, health and nutrition professionals, landscape architects, park and recreation professionals, planners, public works and utilities directors, surveyors, and trail advocates and planners.

  
  

   For more information, visit www.krpa.org or phone Doug Vance at 785-235-6533, ext. 21, or Bonnie Simon at 785-235-6533, ext. 20.