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Open Voices News Roundup: July 22
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. The Bay Area’s Healthy Parks, Healthy People Movement “Healthy Parks, Healthy People (HPHP) is a national movement afoot in the Bay Area, bringing people out to the…
Open Voices News Roundup: July 15
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. Designed for Democracy: When Public Goes Private a Park Loses Its Heart “Nationally, in the wake of urban growth and renewal, there is considerable debate about whether…
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…
INFOGRAPHIC: Greenspace Can Make Your City Great
To help spread the word about the urgent need in nature, we created this infographic — about how why nature is good for us, for our neighborhoods, for economics, and more! If you live in an urban area that needs more nature, share this infographic with your friends, neighbors and politicians. Greenspace can make a bigger difference than we think….
Homeless Prevention and a Healing Garden
In creating this space, we wanted to help re-introduce homeless clients used to experiencing nature as a negative force in their lives to the healing and humanizing effects of nature. Read about our garden at this homeless center.
Benefits of Prison Gardens: A Case Study
Here on Open Voices, we occasionally feature locations that we’ve had a hand in creating — both to let you know a bit more about our organization, and also about the benefits of these spaces. Today, we’re featuring our prison garden at the Maryland Correctional Institution.
When creating this space, our challenge was to cultivate an atmosphere of reflection among an incarcerated population, as well as introduce nature as a change agent to address one of society’s most intractable challenges: inmate rehabilitation. Read more…
“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…
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.
Using and Reading Open Voices
Welcome to our new blog, Open Voices! We’re thrilled that you’re here. With your participation, this site will become an open forum to discuss the healing power of nature, urban planning, the impact of nature on mental well-being, studies, innovations and much more. Your input, comments and suggestions are always welcome.
To get you started, here’s a quick overview of some of the site’s features and how to use them.
