The World Without these sounds or sites. In the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. We get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. When i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. So, just getting people to wake up to what was just literally there 200 years ago, 150 years ago. You see the object and say what is that. You come out and hear these intriguing sounds, sounds like i have never heard in my life. And then you step closer and you almost have a very intimate experience. We could link to different institutions around the globe, maybe one per continent, maybe two or three in this country, then once they are all networked, they begin to communicate with one another and share information. In 2010 the website will launch, but it will be what you would call an informational website and then we are going to try to, by 2011, invite people to add a me
Make sure you take a stroll up the hill. The view corridor that has been created as a result of this incredible park design, lindsay, and this incredible work, mary, its stunning. You can see all the way today you can see all the way into marin. You can see the entire bay. The Tennis Courts, the area, the amphitheater where the mime troop historically performed, the offleash dog area, the benches on our hillside. We have created together a park that is truly extraordinary. It is a piece of art. And we are just also proud that weve been able to do this together. So, give yourselves a big, big round of applause. applause so, id like im going to get back up and introduce some other speakers and we have some gifts were going to present in a little bit. But im going to start im going to kick the program off by bringing up our state senator. Everybody here knows mark leno. But what you may not know is how committed and how tireless mark is to fighting for kids and families and parks and open
Listen to that. 71 2 hours behind a screen, less than 30 minutes a day outside. That has to change. And this playground helps get it done. And i wanted to just offer a quick quote from richard lu who is the author of a book called the nature principle which encourage uz us to reconnect with nature and create a balance between nature and the ever evolving world of technology. ~ he says imagine a world in which all children grow up with a deep understanding of the life around them, where obesity is reduced through nature play, where children experience the joy of being in nature before they learn of its loss. Where they can lie on the grass on a hillside for hours, and watch clouds become the faces of the future. Where every child and every adult has a human right to a connection to the Natural World and shares the responsibility for caring for it. Thats the community, thats the world, thats the park that all of you have created today. And i want to say that while were here looking at th
All of you have created today. And i want to say that while were here looking at this amazing playground which, by the way, has the worlds im not kidding the worlds longest monkey bars. Woohoo and as the father of a daughter who has broken not one, but two arms on monkey bars, im extremely fired up about that. applause but this park is more than just the playground. For those of you who are here with your kids and youre here for the playground opening, make sure you take a stroll up the hill. The view corridor that has been created as a result of this incredible park design, lindsay, and this incredible work, mary, its stunning. You can see all the way today you can see all the way into marin. You can see the entire bay. The Tennis Courts, the area, the amphitheater where the mime troop historically performed, the offleash dog area, the benches on our hillside. We have created together a park that is truly extraordinary. It is a piece of art. And we are just also proud that weve been a
And, so, i want to thank all the folks who have invested their time and their efforts to make sure that the Tennis Courts got their renovation and the pathways were upgraded, the ada improvements, of course, this extraordinary playground for our kids, the improved lighting which will make it all safer. And im glad, phil, that you mentioned the fact of this epidemic of Childhood Obesity and type 2 diabetes. You know, one in eight of us today will experience type 2 diabetes, but a generation from now that means kids here today, if we dont change course, 1 in 3, there are predictions in every californian will have diabetes by 20 50 which will completely overwhelm our already taxed health care system. So, get out and play is more than just some words. Its something we must do. Its for us to make sure that our little ones have the benefit of parks like these all over the city. So, to carina jones who led the fundraising for the playground and lynn new house seigel who led the fundraising fo