A New Bill Could Provide Better Outdoor Recreation Programs for Veterans
Jenni Gritters · REI · November 10, 2020
Featuring Gregory Bratman, member of the Center’s Research Collaborative
Time in nature has been shown to help people of varying backgrounds with mental health issues by reducing depression and anxiety and increasing overall happiness.
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Our Evergreen Surrounds Can Help Us Weather Our Pandemic Blues
Christy Carley · Seattle Met · November 6, 2020
Featuring Kathleen Wolf, Nature and Health researcher
On the whole, Washingtonians are pretty good at spending time outdoors. But after months of attending Zoom meetings in pajamas (camera off), the temptation to stay hunkered down throughout the colder months might be hard to overcome.
We’re so Nature-Deprived That Even Footage of Wilderness Lifts our Spirits
Adrienne Matei · The Guardian · October 26, 2020
Featuring Peter Kahn, Nature and Health researcher and Steering Committee member
In 2017, I spoke to Dr Peter Kahn, a psychology professor and director of the Human Interaction With Nature and Technological Systems Lab at the University of Washington, for the publication Quartz.
Special Issue of Ecopsychology
Nature and Health’s Steering Committee Members Peter Kahn and Usha Varanasi recently contributed to the new issue of Ecopsychology! Peter Kahn was Editor-in-Chief for the special issue Reciprocal Healing: Nature, Health, and Wild Vitality and Usha Varanasi was published in Focusing Attention on Reciprocity Between Nature and Humans Can Be the Key to Reinvigorating Planetary Health.
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What Social Media Can Teach Us About Human-Environment Relationships
Aastha Uprety · State of the Planet · August 25, 2020
Featuring Spencer Wood, Nature and Health researcher
Recent ecological research used Instagram posts to analyze the preferences of visitors to natural areas around the world.
Nature and Health to host online forum
Together with the University of Washington Nature and Health team, Let It Shine Retreat is excited to invite health and wellness practitioners and researchers to an online forum on August 5th to workshop the Let it Shine wellness retreat concept.
Read moreTurning to Technology for Nature Could Help Us Feel More Connected, Experts Say
Sarah Grothjan · REI · April 29, 2020
Featuring Peter Kahn, member of the Center’s Research Collaborative and Steering Committee
Digital nature could also help with feelings of loneliness. A 2018 University of Washington (UW) study showed that university professors who worked in an office with a 50-inch plasma TV that depicted restorative nature scenes—serving, essentially, as a digital window—reported feeling connected to the outdoors and to the wider social community.
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Dose of Nature at Home Could Help Mental Health, Well-Being During COVID-19
Michelle Ma · UW News · April 16, 2020
Featuring Kathleen Wolf and Dr. Pooja Tandon, Nature and Health researchers
As residents in Washington and much of the nation are confined to their homes and apartments under COVID-19 restrictions, many people are missing their usual “nature escapes”: that hike to a serene lake, a mountain bike trail through the woods, or even a favorite campground by a river where you can relax and recharge.
Here’s a Mental Health Tip to get you Through Coronavirus Quarantine: Find Tranquility in Nature
Corinne Whiting · Seattle Times · April 13, 2020
Featuring Kathleen Wolf, Nature and Health researcher
At this bizarre moment in time, most are digging deep into internal “toolboxes” in an attempt to retain some semblance of zen.
Reciprocal Healing: Nature, Health, and Wild Vitality
Peter Kahn writes: This small gathering of about 120 of us was focused on Reciprocal Healing: Nature, Health, and Wild Vitality. The organizer, Dr. Tom Fleischner, Executive Director of the Natural History Institute, says it this way: “The health of humans and nature are inextricably linked.
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