Month: September 2017


Green spaces as an “under-recognized healer”

Our friends on the other side of the pond recently released a report lauding the great and many benefits of nature — calling it an “under-recognized healer”. While the findings align with what we already know (nothing surprising for our fellow-champions of green spaces), we paused a moment at the phrase “under-recognized healer”. Perfectly stated. As…

In the wake of natural disasters, here’s what we need to do better

This is turning out to be a very destructive Atlantic hurricane season. While the media’s attention has understandably turned to the latest storm, Maria, that recently wreaked havoc in the Caribbean, Harvey and Irma are now weeks behind us. But thousands of people — communities — have just started the process of picking up the…

How nature helped one Rockaway community recover following Hurricane Sandy

New short documentary film set to launch next month The past month has seen our television screens filled with images of cities and towns inundated with flood waters — the result of an Atlantic hurricane season considered by various meteorological standards to be the worst in years. For those who’ve lived through rising waters before,…

There’s a blindspot in most post-disaster recovery efforts, and it may surprise you

As we watched Harvey enter the US and pummel parts of coastal Texas and Louisiana two weeks ago, and then Irma take aim at the Caribbean and Florida last weekend, our hearts lurched —  seeing both the immediate suffering, and thinking of the long road to recovery that lies ahead. The images and stories coming…

"Today I became someone different. I made something very special come alive. A place where we could sit, think, get outside and get our minds together."

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