Naturally Wired: Getting Outside in the Digital Age

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🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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What does it take to get people off their phones and into the outdoors? Research has shown the deleterious effects of electronics on weight, sleep, and cognitive development in children, who in 2018 spend four hours or more each day glued to screens. Other barriers like income and proximity to nature make access to the outdoors extremely challenging for some families. Meanwhile, doctors have started prescribing hikes over medications, and terms like “forest schools” and “unstructured playtime” are new buzzwords. So how do we encourage outdoor curiosity and conservation in a generation raised on screen time? Guests: Phil Ginsburg, General Manager, San Francisco Recreation and Parks Rebecca Johnson, Co-Director, Citizen Science at the California Academy of Sciences Nooshin Razani, Pediatrician and Founder/Director of the Center for Nature and Health at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What does it take to get people off their phones and into the outdoors?
0:12.0	Climate One Conversations with oil companies and environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats,
0:18.0	are recorded before a live audience and hosted by Greg Dalton.
0:22.6	I'm Devin Strolovich. In today's modern world, many people, especially children, live disconnected from nature and may not understand how a change in climate might impact them.
0:32.3	Every child should have a nature-based experience every single day.
0:41.3	Phil Ginsberg is general manager with the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, where he works to make the city's park system more equitable and inviting to an increasingly urbanized population.
0:47.3	When my kids were little in the city, we spent a lot of time in big open spaces in the city,
0:52.3	so they could just run and climb and no one would tell
0:55.4	us not to.
0:56.5	Rebecca Johnson is co-director of citizen science at the California Academy of Sciences, where
1:01.0	she helps design programs that connect people to nature wherever they are.
1:04.8	How do you raise children who love place and love the earth and in the next sentence tell them about climate change.
1:13.6	Mishin Razani is director for the Center for Nature and Health at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland,
1:18.6	where she prescribes time outdoors to her pediatric patients and their families as preventative medicine.
1:23.6	Let's listen as Greg welcomes all three to the Commonwealth Club stage for a conversation
1:28.2	about reconnecting with the natural world.
1:31.6	Lucene Rosani, let's begin with you. You talk in your fabulous TEDx talk in I think it was Nashville
1:37.2	about the loneliness of motherhood and how you missed your mother and then you looked to a solution. So tell us that story.
1:47.0	I'm a pediatrician by training, and I was a pediatric infectious diseases specialist,
1:53.5	and I think that I was actually really arrogant about having kids. I thought I knew everything.
1:59.1	I also had four brothers that I kind of raised. And so I thought,
2:03.4	you know, I have this. I got this. And then I was living in the city and I had my kids. And
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