Get hooked on nature: Ben Klasky at TEDxRainier

[@Dman9fp]

True spirituality with Nature is "What can I do for Nature?" Instead of "What can Nature do for me?"

[@bklasky]

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.

[@Poppins242]

7 Hours of screen time? Stop the world I want to get off. Brilliant talk, I love getting children outdoors thank you for sharing

[@theecoheroes413]

We Care! We are Eco Heroes 🌍❤️

[@jbirdperez6003]

very good .. well put and said. " To put it as polite as possible , America , take a walk."

[@grgeliz]

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.

[@heygirlies1108]

@EmptyDeco yea ;,(

[@paultannahill5043]

"When you're just a little bit out of your comfort zone, you're at peak learning."

[@fleecydale]

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.

[@Alun49]

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.

[@alejandranovello3274]

"Take a sledge and break through the cement to plant a garden" Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ElvenWisdom]

I agree and approve of this message as an Elf 🌿

[@peterdrury8385]

Loved watching this, Ben! Excellent work ~ Inspiring, compelling, and necessary. Congrats!

[@KevinMichaelMartin]

Bravo Ben! This was a fantastic watch.

[@OAlchemAzyl]

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’

[@PartyCatDisco]

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.

[@tracynelson1302]

Great job! It's good to be reminded of this.

[@LulasticHippyshake]

Heaps of great ideas here- thank you!

[@ardynleslie3936]

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.

[@TheSepia1]

Thanku for this video!!!

[@missxmarvel]

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.

[@tpeng2009]

You rock Ben! Awesome presentation. Go LT 2008!

[@TheSepia1]

Yes!!

[@rorysterling9526]

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.

[@rachelcropper6088]

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?

[@jstv6351]

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.

[@voorhisk]

Good job Ben!

[@VelhaGuardaTricolor]

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.

[@janinecarlos1718]

Does anyone know the app he's talking about?

[@averagecheeseenjoyer5430]

Everybody watching this as a student is 100% for homework.

[@MichaelVJJones]

🌲🤗🌳 Vitamin N 🌲🤗🌳👍👍

[@KJ_VFX]

south wolds online lesson gang

[@dripmaster_6438]

my guy

[@krishnahappysmile]

First thing that came to my mind: Jake Gyllenhaal lookalike..

[@27.x]

Intro To Psych, where you at? 👋

[@dripmaster_6438]

MEGAboomer

[@מיטלאשש]

🎈😜🎊

[@45AutOo]

Psychedelics should really help too

[@lamestudiosinc418]

@@45AutOo Stick with the nature theme and do some magic mushrooms. 🍄🍄🍄🍄