How to Support Nature and Boost Healthy Communities

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 I Ling Matthews Thompson is herself a force of nature. She's the SVP and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at the Trust for Public Land. Her passion for the outdoors and what they mean to communities is evident in our conversation. Here's a clip about getting inner city children access to more parks.

See Trust for Public Land's tips for getting outside during this COVID-19 crisis here: https://www.tpl.org/blog/itching-head-outside-read-first

Welcome to Marketing Upheaval. My guest is I Ling Matthews Thompson, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at the Trust For Public Land. I Ling has also held leadership positions at the Nature Conservancy and The Outdoor Industry Association. A good part of her career has been in getting more people to have access to parks and recreation, and getting our representatives to support that. We're going to talk about how to get more people to go outside and have more places to enjoy the outdoors.

Transcript:

Rudy: Let's start with the Trust for Public Land. They create parks and protect land for people. So how do they do that?

I Ling: Yeah, the Trust for Public Land has been around for about 47 years and one of the mainstays of our mission has been about connecting people to the outdoors by creating parks or open spaces, trails, protecting large scale forests and areas where people can get outside. Fast forward 47 years, we actually go into communities and create parks and open spaces. We are looking at how we can find open spaces and parks, in urban environments where real estate is at a premium and you can't really shoehorn in a park. So we're getting creative and we're looking at school yards that right now are barren asphalt. And we're working with school districts to transform those school yards into green vibrant areas where kids can play and the surrounding community is able to come out and enjoy those spaces. And we also work on creating access in some iconic national parks. ....So we do some pretty cool stuff. Yeah, I have to say, I'm excited to be here and be part of this mission.

Read the full transcript: https://creativeouthouse.com/2020/03/25/how-to-support-nature-and-boost-healthy-communities/

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