The term “tree hugger” has been applied to people viewed as uber-liberal or too idealistic, however… “it has been recently scientifically validated that hugging trees is actually good for you.” Research has shown that you don’t even have to touch a tree to get better, you just need to be within its vicinity has a […]
Happy Friday. The weather is turning beautiful in many places around the U.S., with lots of sun. In fact one school in Washington gave kids the day off so they could go out and play. Some places get snow days, the principal figured, so why not a sun day? Perfect reasoning to me. Unfortunately a […]
Reblogged from The Dirt: “It took me two years to find the stones for this project,” says Dennis Bracale, a landscape architect based on Mount Desert Island, Maine, while giving a lecture at his alma mater, the University of Virginia. Image after image showcased Bracale’s work on private gardens. The talk showed the audience the […]
Happy Friday! After a looooong work week, here’s a little more incentive to make sure you get some time to play this weekend. [Okay, fine, for all of you who are too "busy" to read the article, here's a basic breakdown: you need free play in order to recover from stress, and that if we […]
A recent study of health factors and their associated costs at seven companies, published in the journal Health Affairs, found that “depression is the most costly among 10 common risk factors linked to higher health spending on employees.” The analysis, found that these factors — which also included obesity, high blood sugar and high blood […]
I’ve been reading about visualization a lot lately. It can seem kind of hokey or too touchy-feely for some, and I’m usually not one to buy into “if you build it, they will come” kinds of ideas. However, studies are finding that visualization has a lot of positive benefits; usually articles and research focus on […]
From the nonprofit organization Voice of Play and their host organization, the IPEMA (International Play Equipment Manufacturing Assocation): This poster is appropriate for any player, whether you are 2 or 92. What other reasons can you think of to play outside? Leave them in the comments below.
I am so excited about this I’m practically jumping out my seat to tell people. I first read about it in USA Today; animals are getting to wander outside of their exhibits, share spaces with other animals, and over all just chill around the zoo. Yup, that’s right: The Philadelphia Zoo on Thursday opens the […]
While summer may just be getting into full swing in my neck of the woods, it’s almost over for most everyone else (*sob!*). It seems everyone is trying to take advantage of a few last weekends of summer before school starts back up. But for some kids, that is a lot harder than it […]
This is such a great commentary from Kaid Benfield’s Blog about the importance of trees for urban health and well-being that I just had to share: …[recently] I was approached by someone from an initiative called San Diego County Trees. The initiative is the urban forestry project of the Energy Center, and they have all […]
