by Amelia Hansen | Aug 31, 2020 | health & wellbeing, inspiration & context
The Environment Can Actually Change our Physiology “While it’s something that we intuitively understand as humans, studies prove the health benefits of spending time outside.” In this interview entitled “Prescribing Nature: A Physician’s Perspective on Wellness and...
by Sara Warber | May 10, 2020 | inspiration & context, nature & climate change, stories of hope
Nature Connection from Botanical Graffiti? Rogue botanists and chalking plant lovers One of the delights I’ve encountered on our daily quarantine walks is the chalking of sidewalks by kids who are at home from school. In my neighborhood these semi-functional artworks...
by Sara Warber | Apr 26, 2020 | inspiration & context, nature & climate change
Eunice Foote, the Original Climate Scientist Celebrating a little-known woman climate scientist, Eunice Foote Learn how Eunice Foote, a woman of science and supporter of women’s rights, conducted and published experiments on the sun’s warming of atmospheric gases in...
by Elaine Sims | Apr 21, 2020 | health & wellbeing, inspiration & context, nature & climate change
Now that Pandora’s Box is Open Covid-19 and reimagining environmental wellbeing Will the COVID -19 Pandemic usher in a collective recognition of the interconnection between human and environmental health? The Biologist and nature conservation expert Carles Castell...
by Sara Warber | Feb 9, 2020 | inspiration & context, stories of hope
Why Kids Need to Engage Wild-ness Cressida Cowell (@CressidaCowell), the author and illustrator of the “How to Train Your Dragon” and “The Wizards of Once” series of children’s books, shares vivid wild images of her childhood and asks important questions about the...
by Amelia Hansen | Feb 4, 2020 | health & wellbeing, inspiration & context
From Fatalist to Optimist It’s all too easy to be overwhelmed by the enormity of the climate crisis, but researchers have found that spending time in nature is just as necessary for activists as it is for the people they’re trying to reach. In an article entitled...
