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Why Our Connection with Nature Matters
Nature is good for us, but why? There’s plenty of evidence that exposure to nature is good for people’s health, well-being and happiness – with green spaces even promoting pro-social behaviours. However, less is known about why nature is good … Continue reading
Taking a trip into nature: What can LSD tell us about the brain and nature connection?
Click here to read 2019 Update – treating low nature connectedness with psychedelics? A connection with nature is comprised of an affective and experiential sense of belonging to the natural world and includes the extent to which nature is included … Continue reading
Supporting a GCSE in Natural History
Recently there have been calls for a petition for a GCSE in Natural History, and today an alert for new research that informs and supports this proposal arrived in my inbox. The paper in Education Sciences explores how connection with nature and scientific … Continue reading
Nature: The Ultimate Network?
Today I attended a workshop at Defra about connecting people with the environment. The questions for the day were broadly who to target? The barriers and challenges? What works? How to scale up? A cultural change is required within a generation … Continue reading
3 Good Things in Nature – A simple way to improve connection with nature
(A great deal has happened with ‘noticing the good things in nature’ since this post from 2016 – see the larger trial and app version). A strong connection with nature lies at the heart of a healthy life and a … Continue reading