Tag: Green
Recommended Reading: Not Just Birds Chirping in Central Park
A lot can be conveyed in 140 characters. Twitter allows for people to express their thoughts and emotions quickly and broadcast them in real time. This provides us with a large amount of untapped data, which the New England Complex Systems Institute used to map the change of sentiment of New Yorkers near different city…
Open Voices News Roundup: August 19
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. Connect Children to Nature “Making mud pies, watching an anthill or skipping rocks on the water: many adults remember enjoying such outdoor activities as children. However, research…
Learning a Love of Nature in the City: A Q&A with Sara Hobel
Open Voices is taking the opportunity to get to know some of the different team members from our National Awards grantee projects. You can find previous interviews with other team members here. Building on her previous experiences as an advocate for the benefits of nature, such as leading up the Urban Park Rangers in New…
Trees in Cities: A Breath of Fresh Air
It’s a fact: living in a city or other urban environment means dealing with pollution. But while it may seem unavoidable, there are untapped ways to improve the air quality of our cities. New research from a team including David Nowak and Robert Hoehn from the USDA Forest Service and Satoshi Hirabayashi and Allison Bodine…
Open Voices News Roundup: August 12
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. Drs. Oz and Roizen: “Green prescriptions” for Busy People “Getting up close and personal with Mother Nature yields big mind-body benefits. A walk in the park is…
Recommended Reading: Mounds of Trash into Treasured Landscape
The large Freshkills landfill used to be one of the less flattering, yet defining features of Staten Island. But that is all going to change in the next few years, and we can already begin to see the improvements, as the expansive 2,200 acres transitions into a park with the help of James Corner Field…
Recommended Reading: Promoting the Benefits of Planting Trees in Cities
When you think of trees, you might picture vast wooded forests in more rural settings. But many don’t realize how important trees are to urban communities and ecosystems as well. That’s why David Nowak, a researcher for the Forest Service, has teamed up with private industry and non-governmental organizations to create an innovative tool called…
Open Voices News Roundup: July 1
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. Connecting With Nature Boosts Creativity and Health “”I’ve been arguing for a while that connection to nature should be thought of as a human right,” Richard Louv…
