View Album May 1, 2021: Nature Challenge First walk of the 8th season! It’s great to get together again and enjoy a great day on Randall’s/Wards Island. From Poor Richard’s Playground we stopped at the second El Barrio Fridge to open in East Harlem (106th between 2nd and 1st). Our coordinator Rosa also happens to…
Author: Cappy Collins
Pediatric Communitologist
Communitology Course
El Dr. Cappy y sus colegas de Parsons School of Design entregan un curso llamado “Communitology”. Dr. Cappy and his colleagues at Parsons School of Design teach a course called “Communitology”. Communitology reúne a estudiantes universitarios de arte, estudiantes de posgrado de salud pública y, por primera vez este año, estudiantes de secundaria. Juntos…
2018 Greenmarket #1
Google Album July 21, 2018: Greenmarket #1 Health Bucks! The forecast threatened a wet walk, but it turned into a perfect day of sun and a refreshing breeze. And our families showed up in force. We were especially pleased to have Andrew Suseno present “parcon” (parkour + contact improvisation) to the group—a great technique for…
2017 Child Development
Click here for full album June 3, 2017: Child Development Third walk of our 4th season! Perfect weather and a great group of folks made for a fantastic new walk in our repertoire. Child development encompasses the physical, cognitive and emotional development of children. A lot of what families do in their everyday lives, and…
2017 Women’s Health
Click here for full album May 20, 2017: Women’s Health Second walk of our 4th season! Last year we launched our women’s health programming, with a walk to the student-run clinic at Mt. Sinai to learn about cancer screening, and a visit to the Institute for Family Health (IFH) to learn about reproductive services. This…
2017 Garden to Garden
Click here for full album April 29, 2017: Garden to Garden First walk of our 4th season! Our fourth season kicked off with a scenic tour of the neighborhood from our home base at Poor Richard’s Playground to the French Garden section of the Central Park Conservatory to Chenchita’s Garden, our favorite community garden in…
2016 Wealth
Click here for full album August 20, 2016: Wealth Another hot day and another hot topic—wealth. Wealth disparities underlie essentially all our other health topics. It’s hard to “fix” a health problem like asthma without acknowledging that wealth determines the stress on the household, determines the quality of the housing (mold, pests, pesticides), determines the…
2016 Ecology
(Click here if unable to view slideshow.) August 13, 2016: Ecology Must have been the hottest day of the year! Our first visit to Wards and Randalls Island was a great interactive experience. (Ever wonder why the island has two names? It used to be two separate islands that were joined with landfill. The Little…
2016 Nutrition & Fitness
(Click here if unable to view slideshow.) July 23, 2016: Nutrition & Fitness Our first Greenmarket walk of the season! Always a popular one, not the least because of Health Bucks! We emphasized the connection between nutrition and fitness. There is a lot of “information” out there about what food you should eat. Some of…
2016 Greenmarkets I
(Click here if unable to view slideshow.) July 23, 2016: Greenmarkets I A perennial favorite, our first Greenmarket walk of the 2016 season was well-attended despite it being the hottest walk of the season. We hydrated early and often on a humid day in the upper 90’s. Our theme of the day was the connection…