Are Outdoor Preschools Changing U.S. Education?
Shanti Hodges · REI · February 25, 2019
Featuring Dr. Pooja Tandon, member of the Center’s Research Collaborative
The U.S. saw a 66 percent increase in the number of registered outdoor preschools and kindergartens between 2016 and 2017.
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3 Steps to Boost Your Child’s Outdoor Time — And Health
Pooja S. Tandon and Kyle Yasuda · Seattle Times · December 28, 2018
Co-authored by Dr. Pooja S. Tandon, Nature and Health researcher
Kids today spend less time outside than any previous generation.
A Dose of Nature: New UW Initiative to Spearhead Research on Health Benefits of Time Outside
Time spent in nature can reduce anxiety and help you sleep better at night, experts have found. It also offers promising benefits for a range of health issues, including cardiovascular disease, depression and obesity.
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Rei Closing to #OptOutside Again on Black Friday While Pledging $1M to Study Benefits of Outdoors
… 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.
Making The Case For Life Outside
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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Bratman Describes Science of Nature’s Effects on Psychological Health
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 BlogA Dose of the Outdoors
Monica 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.
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Andy 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.
Why You Should Still Go Outside When the Weather Sucks
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.
What Counts as Nature? It All Depends
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.