Rooted Documentary Series

Reconnecting Kids with Nature

 
 

 
 

 
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Gardens and Kids: Getting back to the basics

  Farm to Cafeteria video:   There is a deep and growing economic division occurring, one that pits people against each other for fear of loosing everything they have. Food prices are skyrocketing, the mass produced f...
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source: Kaiser Family Foundation Media Study Jan. 2010

Operation Media Saturation

It’s Wednesday evening and I am sitting on my computer thinking about the amount of time I spend on some form of technological device. The latest blog post I wrote covered the topic of media screen-time in children. Ch...
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Photo courtesy Common Sense Media

To Connect or not to Connect

Adults, children, fish, and crows all share the same affinity for shinny things. While fish and crows are happy with the simple gleam of a metal object, humans often have a more sophisticated palette for visual objects. My frie...
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50 Days and 50 Nights

Five of us emerged from the Colorado woods just outside Durango, CO in the summer of 2003 after hiking the 550 miles of the Colorado Trail. Along the way we managed to climb 9 fourteen thousand foot peaks, missing the 10th due ...
by Kevin Michael Martin
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A Natural Revolution: Millennial Style

I was born in 1978 in Syracuse, New York.  Saturday Night Fever topped the charts, the Blues Brothers made their first appearance, Yankees beat the Dodgers in the World Series, federal debt was still in the billions, and you c...
by Kevin Michael Martin
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