Building Green Space with Stacy Bare

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Executive Director of Friends of Grand Rapids Parks, Stacy Bare, shares why it's important to build and improve green spaces in our local communities and how he and his team are doing just that in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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0:00.0	If you've been a long time listener, you might remember Stacey Bear.
0:07.7	In 2017, Stacey took two fellow veterans back to Iraq where they'd all served during
0:14.2	the war.
0:15.6	The team skied some of the highest mountains in the country and made an award-winning
0:19.3	film called Adventure Not War.
0:22.2	After its release, Stacey continued taking veterans on adventure trips to places they'd
0:27.2	previously been stationed.
0:29.6	His idea to use nature as a tool for recovery gained a lot of momentum, and he was supported
0:34.9	by brands like Merrill, Osprey, and True Gear.
0:38.7	He was even named Adventure of the Year by National Geographic.
0:42.8	Now since becoming a father to daughter Wilder and weathering a global pandemic, Stacey's
0:49.1	work looks a little different.
0:51.0	Instead of bringing folks out to nature, Stacey's working to build and improve green space
0:57.0	in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
0:58.8	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living, an R.I. co-op studios production.
1:08.7	Before we jump into my conversation with Stacey, I wanted to offer a content warning.
1:13.3	Our conversation discusses suicide, PTSD, depression, and more.
1:20.1	Stacey Bear, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:23.0	Not only are you a repeat guest, we have one of the best podcast voices in the podcast
1:28.6	world.
1:29.6	Well, thanks, Shelby.
1:30.6	One of these days, maybe I will start my own podcast, but it's fun to be hanging out
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