Tag: Benefits of Nature
Open Voices News Roundup: The Greater & Greener Version
Tuesday marked the last day of “Greater & Greener: Re-Imagining Parks for 21st Century Cities,†the excellent summit put on by City Parks Alliance in New York City. But while the panels are over and the attendees have scattered back home across the globe, the ideas and discussions that sparked at the conference will launch some great new initiatives and movements.
Lots of interesting news also came out of the conference this week — so here is this week’s roundup, with a Greater & Greener bent!
“Places of Urban Sanctuary for Humans”: A Q&A with TKF’s Tom Stoner
After a momentous visit to England in 1995, Tom Stoner, and his wife, Kitty, returned to the United States with a commitment to building urban greenspaces in cities across the United States. Their foundation, the TKF Foundation, was born in 1996, and since then they’ve helped fund and create more than 130 open spaces in…
Open Voices News Roundup: July 9
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back every Monday for our news roundups.
In this week’s roundup, read about the upcoming Greater and Greener conference; how new natural playgrounds are having a positive effect on children; why urban trees need help; and lots more.
Welcome to Open Voices!
Welcome to Open Voices! We’re so excited to announce the creation of this new blog as a platform where we hope to spread information and stories about the healing power of nature and green development in urban locations. Our foundation started in 1996, when we started out with the goal of funding publicly accessible urban green space. In this space, we’ll collect some of the best and most relevant news in placemaking, green development and more for your reading each week. We’ll keep you updated on the status of our new grantees and their fascinating projects, wherein they attempt to record the impact of open, sacred green spaces on their urban neighborhoods and communities.
