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2010

Channel 7 News: Denver Students Earn Prizes for Healthy Choices
Jennifer Brown: Michelle Obama's anti-obesity plan feels at home in Colo

2009

UC Denver Newsroom: Learning Landscapes receives $3 million grant from NIH to study the effect of schoolyards on childhood obesity
Denver Herald Dispatch: Playground expanded to 'learning landscape' by Joshua Cole
Denver Public Schools Communications Office: DPS Continues to See Savings for Taxpayers in Bond Program
UCD Advocate: Play: Cure obesity on the merry-go-round by Lydia Hooper
KaBOOM!: Denver's Learning Landscapes recognized for excellence in getting kids active and playful
Denver Herald Dispatch: Community plants a learning landscape by Pat Smid
Denver Public Schools: DPS Celebrates Walk to School Day
The Mayfair Mirror: A New Playground for Palmer! by Scott Babcock
UC Denver Newsroom: $3 million NIH grant to study effect of new playgrounds on obesity
Denver Post: Kepner Middle School students minding their peas and cukes by Kristen Browning-Blas.
Denver Public Schools Newsroom: DPS Celebrates Colorado Proud School Meal Day
Channel 4 News: New School Program Counts, Rewards Walkers (Featuring "Mustangs on the Move", a LiveWell Westwood Program)
El Seminario Westwood's extreme playground makeover by Cristina Frsquez
Denver Business Journal: Kaiser draws upon its resources to create a better community by Ryan Peacock
UC Denver Newsroom: Learning Landscapes program receives additional LiveWell funding
9News: Students dig in dirt for knowledge by Nelson Garcia (Watch Video Here)
Denver Public Schools Newsroom: Learning Landscapes Receives 'Entrepreneurial American Community Award'

2008

9News: DPS Bond Promises $29 Million for Playgrounds / (Watch Video Here)
Rocky Mountain News: Denver Public School bond issue improvements
Rocky Mountain News: Question 3A seeks $454 million to improve schools by Nancy Mitchell
Edible Front Range: Serious Fun: Kids Learn "Slow Food" Fast by Joslyn Green
Landscape Architecture: Land Matters by J. William Thompson

2007

UC Denver Newsroom: Playground Renovations Linked to Children's Physical Activity

2006

Think:Lab: Considering the Future of Learning and the Environments that Shape Educational Engagement
The Toronto Star: Injecting Life into Barren Schoolyards by Christopher Hume
Urban Land Institute: Learning Landscapes Transforms Denver Playgrounds
Toyota Evergreen: Grounds for Action: Promoting Physical Activity throughSchool Ground Greening in Canada
The Future of Children: Childhood Obesity

2005

District Administration - The Magazine for K-12 Education Leaders: The End of Recess by Ron Schachter
Denver Post: A Plea for Play by Jenny Deam.

2004

Wildflower Magazine: Nature to Nurture by Julie Bawden Davis

2003

Learning by Design: Grounds for Learning: Hope for America's Derelict School Yard by Chery Corson.
Rocky Mountain Exposures: Building Schools and Communities Through Play by Bambi Yost

2002

Rocky Mountain News: Playground has Kids Flying High by Vladimir Kovaley
Rocky Mountain News: School Backers Want Break from Drought Rules by Holly Yettick
Denver Post: Playground Project Swings High by Cindy Brovsky

2000

Rocky Mountain News: From Barren to Beautiful by Lisa Ryckman

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