… At the UW, money from REI will help the university build on existing work and explore new ideas. According to a news release, that could include understanding “whether a dose of nature can be prescribed alongside traditional medicine to tackle issues such as anxiety and depression.”
“We know there is a link between time spent in nature and our health and well-being.
This year, we’re confronting the reality that day in, day out, many of us are looking down at our phones instead of up at the world around us. We are more connected now than at any point in history, but it has left us feeling more stressed and overwhelmed.
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Contact with nature—whether outdoors or indoors (e.g., from plants or window views)—is an emerging field of research showing potential to help address some important public-health problems, said Gregory Bratman, Ph.D., in a recent lecture at NIH.
Read more at the NCCIH Research BlogMonica Prelle · REI · July 19, 2018
Featuring Kathleen Wolf, member of the Center’s Research Collaborative
Many studies have shown the positive effects of nature on health and well-being, but research suggests that low-income neighborhoods across the U.S.
Continue Reading at REIAndy Tsubasa Field · Eugene Weekly · March 15, 2018
Featuring Kathleen Wolf, Nature and Health researcher
Kathleen Wolf, a researcher at the University of Washington, says that when she was an urban forester in the ’80s, requesting from the city of Key West more resources for street trees, her proposal wasn’t taken seriously.
McKenna Princing · Right as Rain · January 5, 2018
Featuring Dr. Pooja S. Tandon and Kathleen Wolf, Nature and Health researchers
“I would encourage people to get out regardless of weather.
Kim Eckart · UW News · November 15, 2017
Featuring Peter Kahn, Nature and Health researcher and Steering Committee member
Think, for a moment, about the last time you were out in nature.
Rebecca Lawton · Aeon · Sep 6, 2017
Featuring Kathleen Wolf, Nature and Health researcher
Much of the scientific evidence of nature’s benefits has been derived from studying shinrin-yoku subjects. ‘Outside of urban nature, most of the peer-reviewed science has been done on northern temperate forests,’ says Kathleen Wolf of the University of Washington College of the Environment.
Adrienne Matei · Quartz · August 8, 2017
Interview with Peter Kahn, Nature and Health researcher and Steering Committee member
University of Washington psychology professor Peter Kahn has spent much of his career analyzing the relationship humans have with nature—and he thinks that relationship is more fragile than many of us realize.
Joshua Brandon · REI · November 10, 2016
Featuring Dr. Howard Frumkin, co-founder of the Center and member of the Center’s Research Collaborative
As we give thanks for their service on Veteran’s Day, REI has asked one vet and a nationally renowned medical researcher to share their views on the healing power of the outdoors.
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