Environment committee  And of the health care system.

Environment committee  There are a couple of things. First I'll say, to agree with Andrea's point, that even though I love what I do, I would take an amazing programmer and an urban setting with a crack in the pavement and some weeds coming through over one of my spaces in terms of the number of peopl

Environment committee  It's times three.

Environment committee  Yes, if they're left to their own devices, it expands by a factor of three, and there's a shift from 40% of the kids getting 90% of the physical activity to an even spread throughout. All of the kids engage. The 60% that you're missing is now what you engage.

Environment committee  The last one is funding—taxes and legislation about what you fund. There are schools out there that are fantastic examples of engaging people in participatory education in the outdoors. North Vancouver Outdoor School is one. Another is the Palisades. Schools like this need to be

Environment committee  Honestly, for me right now the city that I'm most excited about is Collingwood. The urban planner there is a guy by the name of Robert Voigt. They have produced a remarkable document that is very outcomes-based and is focused on connecting that community and on saving that commun

Environment committee  Yes. The last project I described was a perfect example of that.

Environment committee  We brought in a sponsor to pay for this to happen. They brought $150,000 to the table. We brought in a national charity, ParticipAction, which was involved from how we engaged with the community to some of the programming that goes on afterwards.

Environment committee  Yes, absolutely. The one thing that has been disappointing up until now is that the amount of money committed by all of our federal partners doesn't even amount to the tax we've paid to do the work that we've done, so you're quickly losing your right to be involved, and if it we

Environment committee  On the whole idea of these renatured spaces, I have a quick story. One parent said, “I hate you.”

Environment committee  I said, “Oh, God, here we go.” She said that she hated me because she used to have her day planned. They would go down to the local park and they would get out, because 20 minutes later they would be bored. They would get back in and go.... “Now, when we go to your place”, she sa

Environment committee  There's something about the interpretative quality of nature in an urban setting that jogs our memories. We're hard-wired on an evolutionary scale for this. We are a hunter-gatherer species. You re-engage with this stuff and you allow people to imagine, and they change. That's ul

Environment committee  There's a certain amount of that going on, but that's with an enlightened developer. Without any legislation or any bylaws in place to promote this in some of their work, they're going to do what's easy. They're going to default to what's easy. They have to provide some money for

Environment committee  It makes it very difficult, in fact, from a developer's standpoint for them to justify it. One place where we have been successful is Collingwood, because they have an urban design standard that has been set up by urban planning as part of.... The planner is a member of the insti

Environment committee  It's my pleasure. There are a lot of different places. Basically, anywhere you'd see one of those plastic and steel things, you would find us working there. I'll give you some different examples. A private school might call us and say they have this plastic and steel thing. Bi