Health and Nature During COVID-19
What does the emergence of COVID-19 mean for the nature and health movement that we’ve been building since 2014? During this March 2020 webinar, four nature and health experts from the Pacific Northwest led an in-depth discussion and Q&A on this topic.
Read moreNature and Health in Alaska Airlines’ March Magazine
Alaska Airlines recently wrote about Nature and Health. From forest bathing to wellness retreats, there’s increasing evidence that time in nature has benefits for human health and wellbeing. The story begins on page 58.
Read moreThe Great (Neighborhood) Outdoors: staying connected with nature during Coronavirus
Ah, the great outdoors. That intoxicating piney scent of an evergreen forest, the salty seawater glow on your skin after a swim, the parade of puffy clouds marching overhead while stretched out in a flowery meadow—being outside makes us happy and puts us at ease.
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Humans Need the Wilderness to be Happy
Elizabeth Fernandez · Forbes · March 4, 2020
Featuring Peter Kahn, Nature and Health researcher and Steering Committee member
As we embed ourselves more and more in urban environments, it’s important to remember our need for a connection to nature.
Wildness in Urban Parks Important for Human Well-Being
Michelle Ma · UW News · February 26, 2020
Featuring Peter Kahn, Nature and Health researcher and Steering Committee member
As metropolises balloon with growth and sprawl widens the footprint of cities around the world, access to nature for people living in urban areas is becoming harder to find.
Nature and Health Conference: Generating understanding across communities and disciplines
Nature & Health 2020 will explore the current understanding of the connections between nature and human health and well-being as well as highlight how that understanding can be used to inform programs, practices, policies, and the design of healthcare, educational, and community settings that benefit all people and nature.
Read moreNature Contact and Psychological Well-Being
Growing empirical evidence demonstrates the ways in which nature contact may be a source of improved psychological wellbeing for urbanites, but the existing literature is dominated by cross-sectional designs and self-report assessments.
Read moreDesigning for Health in the Informal Amphibious Community, Iquitos
Peru has significantly increased mining and oil extraction in the last decade, degrading Amazon Rainforest ecosystems and Indigenous livelihoods, interrupting local to global climate regulation, and resulting in rapid jungle-to-city migration with ultimately 90,000+ people living in informal “amphibious” communities floating in the floodplain borders of the jungle city.
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Birding With Benefits: How Nature Improves Our Mental Mindsets
Jill U. Adams · Audubon Magazine · Winter 2019
Featuring Gregory Bratman, Nature and Health Steering Committee member and researcher
Anyone who birds a favorite park over and over knows intuitively why they keep going back: It just feels good.
How Micro-Doses of Nature Help Our Health and Climate
Sara Barron and Kathleen Wolf · Pursuit· December 3, 2019
Co-authored by Kathleen Wolf, Nature and Health researcher
Cities around the world are facing major challenges. Industrialised nations are experiencing epidemics of chronic diseases like diabetes, cardio-vascular disease and dementia, and it would be all too easy to give up hope of finding solutions.