No Child Left Outside

Most optimistic forward-thinking people agree that in order to save this planet, we need to rediscover our connection to it.  A school founded in 1981 with the express intent of educating children through principles of living in the natural world -- playing in the mud, stacking rocks, swinging from trees, having pets -- is on the brink of closing.  In order to comply with safety regulations, the stream has been fenced off, the logs removed, the cat banished, and now the limbs of every tree must be removed below seven feet.  Sounds like a blast.

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Born to Run -- Barefoot!

I think I've somehow known this since I was young, but here's proof that the human foot (and body) evolved to run healthiest barefoot!  From the LA Times:

Endangered Species 2010 (the cutest and most marketable anyway)

FULL GALLERY HERE

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