Water

During the hot summer months there is no commodity as precious as water. It is a known fact that children show signs of dehydration much later than adults; their bodies are able to keep homeostasis for a longer time. However, when the signs of dehydration do present themselves in a child his condition can rapidly deteriorate because it is already late in the dehydration process. It is therefore imperative to keep children fully hydrated, even if they don’t look hot or thirsty. Always have cold water bottles on hand, and urge your child to keep drinking because he may easily forget in the distraction of playing. Electrolyte drinks are also good, but don’t overdo it with the sugar; even drinks that are advertised as healthy are often packed with unhealthy preservatives. Stick with fresh water true safety assurance.

Safe Playing Areas

A large part of keeping your children safe is ensuring that they have safe outdoor places and playgrounds where they can play. In order to ensure this, go with your children to the playground of choice at the beginning of the summer and check that there is rubber mulch playground flooring in place, and that the playground equipment is in good condition. Rubber wearmats should be in place beneath slides and areas of high impact, with designated areas for older and younger children. Another thing to be wary of is that your playground is not home to bullies or unsavory characters.

Safe Footwear

Children may request flip-flops as summer footwear, or a variety of other footwear that is currently in. Be sure to purchase sturdy sneakers that will provide support and a wide range of movement while playing in the playground. Bad footwear can cause injury when playing, and ruin your child’s posture and walk.

With some foresight and a parent’s intuition you can help your child have a happy, healthy summer.

The Paxon Hollow Middle School is leading the way with teaching by example. This year they held a project focusing on an environmental garden and outdoor classroom. Teachers and staff built a walkway using rubber mulch from 263 recycled tires, and planted 28 shrubs in one of Paxon Hollow’s inner courtyards. The new garden was decorated with ceramic pavers made by the art students and other eco-friendly paraphernalia. With this project, the school earned itself a beautiful new garden for learning, and an opportunity to teach children about the importance of going green and using rubber mulch.

Rubber mulch has a place in many different areas of a school. Gardens and walkways are beautified with rubber mulch flooring, and there is no safer playground flooring than rubber mulch. Gyms can also greatly benefit from rubber floormats, and recycled rubber equipment can be used for labs, art, and other classes. Eco-friendly rubber mulch has many varied uses in a school.

While the effects of pollution and overcrowded landfills must be taught by schools parents also have a duty to educate their children by example. When used in backyard playgrounds and home gardens, rubber mulch adds beauty and a sense of satisfaction in making the world a better place. Children are also kept safer when playing among recycled materials and nature’s gifts of flowers and greenery.

There is no better way to teach children about the importance of recycling than by practicing what we preach.

With so many students taking science labs, laboratory safety is of growing concern. What may seem like a fun education can quickly turn dangerous. Rubber flooring provides one way safety can be enhanced by providing traction when carrying chemicals, and more importantly, preventing vial breakage and chemical burns. Because rubber is softer than concrete and tiles it can absorb the impact of glass tubes and vials that hold dangerous products. In a setting where students can be careless it is of utmost importance that the lab be properly outfitted in the case of any mishaps. Rubber flooring also helps safeguard expensive equipment that colleges can ill afford to replace if damaged.

Rubber flooring is cheaper long term since it requires less maintenance and upkeep, all the while providing quality and long-lasting durability. Many colleges also favor Rubberecycle flooring because its eco-friendly aspect helps them brand themselves as an environmentally responsible university. Rubber flooring is derived from used tires, a clear endorsement of recycling and reusing. By installing rubber flooring in laboratories throughout the country, colleges will be sending a strong message of environmental responsibility to their students, while preserving safety measures and expensive equipment.

While some injuries are inevitable, many are preventable. A player that stretches and works out before a game is less likely to injure himself during play. There is no doubt that gyms and workout rooms with the right equipment can have an effect on a franchise’s entire season. Rubber bond flooring in gyms is an essential component to providing a safe workout experience.

Rubber flooring enables players to work out better by giving great traction for foot exercises, while lowering safety risks that come with a bad spill on a concrete floor. The rubber’s shock absorbency also allows for a wider range of movement. Besides for the rubber flooring being in the best interests of the players, it also shows that management cares about their players’ safety, boosting locker room morale.

Many shy away when first hearing the cost, not realizing that although initially rubber bond is more expensive, it lasts longer than any of its counterparts, making it more cost efficient in the long run. Another way a team could benefit from rubber bond is the green stamp it places on that franchise. Rubber bond is recycled, rather than burned or dumped in landfills, making this planet a safer place to live. What better way to associate a team with a movement that is taking the world by storm. Favorable reactions mean better ticket sales, and that is the bottom line with every team, in every sport. From safety to smart PR, rubber flooring is a smart decision for pro sports teams.

Longwood Gardens is located in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, and boasts 1,077 acres and twenty outdoor gardens. Breathtaking in beauty and carefully cultivated horticulture, the gardens are vast and expansive, with fountains and landscaping skill providing beauty at every turn. As with many professional gardens, rubber mulch is used in a variety of ways, for both aesthetic appeal and landscaping purposes. Longwood Gardens is gearing up for Arbor Day with a variety of events planned.

The first four hundred guests at the Arbor Day Celebration will receive a voucher for a free tree seedling. The activities will allow guests to meet the arborists, learn about local birds and how Longwood’s natural and forested areas provide excellent bird habitat, children are invited to “Gear Up” and experience what it is like to be an Arborist, and guests can take a Champion Tree Tour and marvel at some of the biggest trees in Pennsylvania.

The activities include:

ARBORIST EQUIPMENT DISPLAY
Our arborists will show and demonstrate some of the unique equipment they use to care for our trees. See their climbing gear, chipper, and a stump grinder.

TALK TO AN ARBORIST
Get answers to your tree questions and learn the best practices for caring for your trees at home. Ever wonder what makes a tree a Champion tree? Come find out.

TREES ARE COOL
Did you know trees keep us all cool? Discover more about trees and how they benefit us and our environment. Learn about trees and see samples of different types of wood and bark.

KIDS CLIMB
Young tree climbers can join Longwood’s arborists and climb into Longwood’s trees. For safety purposes, trying on the arborists’ climbing gear is only available for children ages 6 to 12 years old.

TREES ARE HOME SWEET HOME FOR BIRDS!
Come learn all about how you can help birds and how you can look for birds near their favorite tree habitats.

BIRD OF A FEATHER KIDS ACTIVITY STATION
Join us for some fun interactive activities for kids to learn all about our remarkable friends the birds.

CHAMPION TREE TOURS
Go on a walking tour with our expert guides as they visit some of the tallest and oldest trees in Pennsylvania.

KITE FLYING
Bring your kite and fly it over our green Cow Lot.

The upstairs gallery featured works such as Marina Zamin’s immersive video installation “Brooklyn Canals” and an animation projected onto a canvas with cutout flower pots and windows. There were also panoramic photo-murals of various blocks on Kent Avenue, as well as picture-postcards and descriptions of eminent domain cases across the city.

Some of the other works in the exhibit merge public space with technology. Lynn Cazabon’s “Uncultivated” project displays pictures of plants with QR codes beneath them. When someone scans the code, they are directed to a website which pinpoints the location of the plants and gives their species.

Then there is Skymills, an app which calls on the Old Stone House’s Dutch legacy and erects virtual windmills that can be viewed through an iPad or iPhone. The mills also create virtual skywriting, and the maker envisions the app as a virtual public space where users plant trees or write virtual messages that all users can see.

This entire exhibit of awe-inspiring art was itself inspired by children at play. In this, Rubberecyle is the expert. The beautiful scene of children playing can become ugly when injury intervenes. Recycled rubber mulch for playgrounds is eco-friendly, and it prevents injuries with added shock absorbency that truly allows children to play freely. The mulch will also appeal to the artist’s love of color, as it comes in a spectrum of colors to suit any setting, and gives a clean look. The makers of Playsafer mulch may also be called artists, for in their own way, they too, are making art, by providing playground equipment for children.

A light at the end of the tunnel is the work of companies that are trying to save our planet with eco-friendly practices. Rubberecycle goes a step further: they help people make their lifestyles more eco-friendly with recycled rubber mulch.

Tires, the biggest consumers of rubber, are increasingly being recycled rather than buried or burned. Rubber mulch has proven to be an excellent way tires can be reused in an environmentally friendly way. Although rubber represents just a tiny problem in the smoggy world of heavy industry, companies and nations alike should follow this commendable example and come up with creative uses for their used products.

Rubber mulch is used for many important purposes every day. For years children coming home from the playground would inevitably be wearing dirty clothes stained with grass and med from where they landed when coming off the slide. Rubber mulch has revolutionized the playground with clean recycled mulch serving as the landing area of playgrounds nationwide. This is both safer and cheaper in the long run.

Rubber mulch is also used in horse arenas to prevent dust from being kicked up when the horses run. Mulch in arenas also protects the horses’ hooves, with an added shock absorbency that adds a bounce to their step and prevents injuries.

Another excellent function of rubber mulch is for landscaping. When used for gardening, rubber mulch helps those who are going green make the process even more environmentally responsible.

Rubber mulch is undoubtedly one excellent step forwardi n saving the environment, but many more must be taken in the coming years.

Designed by David Rockwell, Imagination Playground takes the concept of free play and creativity to a whole new level. The playground equipment is made up of big blue foam blocks of all shapes and sizes. Using oversized cogs, wheels, spools and tubes, children create whimsical sculptures, construct castles and forts, and design vibrant vehicles that move. Joining curvy blocks with grooves, they form elaborate ramps and tracks and send balls rolling through. They stack, connect, design, configure and play – the possibilities are endless!  Imagination Playground is good for both indoor and outdoor playgrounds, but children will most enjoy themselves on rubber mulch flooring so they can bounce around safely.

Imagination Playground Blocks are made of a cross-linked Polyethylene foam manufactured in the United States. The closed-cell foam is soft, lightweight, waterproof, and biodegradable. It is resistant to sun, heat, mold, mildew, corrosion and micro-organisms. These highly-durable blocks can be transported to a landfill or returned to the manufacturer to be recycled when they are no longer wanted on the playground, making them eco-friendly, as is rubber mulch for playgrounds, the premium playground flooring. In fact, Imagination Playground was featured in UL’s Safe and Healthy Environment pavilion at the Earth Day Eco Village on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. during Earth Week. The UL pavilion featured interactive kiosks on family safety and provided useful information on maintaining healthy environments and the importance of safe play.

Imagination Playground materials can be purchased in a box or case for private use, or parents can take children to visit Imagination Playgrounds. The flagship playground is at South Street Seaport in Manhattan and a new playground is set to open at the Providence Children’s Museum during the April Spring Break. There are Imagination Playgrounds all across the country, and internationally, as well. With new technology and rubber mulch playground flooring, the possibilities for children’s’ play are endless.

The controversial ’Tent City was ‘founded’ in 2005 by homeless people squatting on vacant land. The camp is illegal, as the residents have no permits to reside on the state-owned land, and as the years have passed the camp has grown. Officials fear that with the coming of spring and warm weather the camp will continue to expand. There have also already been two lives lost in the camp to fires and unsafe conditions, a reality that officials fear will multiply, as the camp has no safety regulations or restrictions.

After countless eviction notices, this week Lakewood Township took action by closing off two of the entrances to the camp with huge piles of mulch left by the Department of Public Works. They hope that the restriction on vehicles and supplies entering and leaving the camp will force the dwellers to move.

Aside for safety of the dwellers, Township officials maintain that ‘Tent City’ is a hazard to the environment. The inhabitants are cutting down trees to make way for more tents with no regard as to how the trees are cut, or how many. They are also causing pollution, and chasing away animals, destroying forest ecosystems that took years to build. By blocking the entrances with mulch, officials were making a statement, saying that they are looking after numerous objectives: the safety of the inhabitants, the law of the city, and the preservation of the environment.

Rubber mulch is a new and improved version of wood mulch, and it is extremely environmentally friendly. Made from recycled tires, the mulch helps with playground safety, and is useful in many settings, such as playgrounds, landscaping, horse arenas, and more. Supporters of the environment are turning to rubber mulch as an eco-friendly alternative.

As the officials of Lakewood Township work to evict the squatters on their land, they must walk a thin line: obtaining their objective while preserving whatever life is left in what used to be a vibrant forest.

The job market for PT’s is currently very hot with a serious need in all areas. It provides a healthy starting income in the sixty thousand dollar range, with six figure potential. When in practice, physical therapy even helps the therapist stay in shape since there is a lot of exercise involved. A big chunk of the job is done in exercise/workout rooms. These rooms are usually padded with rubber mats to ensure safety and a more productive work environment. New physical therapists who are just starting out may not know to ask for it, but when looking at a prospective job, it is important to ensure that the necessary equipment is available, including rubber flooring. Rubber floors provide cushioning from falls, and provide extra traction for patients, enabling them to progress at a faster rate.

Whenever one makes a career decision, all angles must be considered in order to make the right choice. Deciding upon a career can be life changing, and ensuring that it will be an enjoyable and productive experience is essential. Other than workaholics, most dread the Monday morning sunrise; an enjoyable work environment can help one achieve greater happiness in every aspect of one’s life. The most important factor is work safety. An oil rig engineer’s salary starts at six figures due to the sizeable risk encountered on a daily basis, and these jobs are plentiful because people want, rightfully so, safe jobs.

Not only is physical therapy safe, it can actually enhance one’s active life, enabling a fit and healthy lifestyle. It’s very important that rubber flooring should be used in all exercise rooms. Rubber is safer, more comfortable, and cheaper in the long run. One must always remember to factor in safety when making a major decision, such as career choice.