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- Creating a safe, clean, and sustainable work environment promotes environmental wellness.
- Incorporating elements of eco-friendly design, reducing noice pollution, and implementing eco-friendly practices demonstrate a commitment to environmental stewardship.
Good Nature: Why Seeing, Smelling, Hearing, and Touching Plants is Good for Our Health by Kathy Willis
We all take for granted the idea that being in nature makes us feel better. But if you were a skeptic who wanted hard scientific evidence for this idea, where would you look? And how would that evidence be gathered? It wasn't until Dr. Kathy Willis was asked to contribute to an international project looking for the societal benefits we gain from plants that she stumbled across a study that radically changed the way she saw the natural world.
What is remarkable about this book is how its revelations should be commonsense—schools should let children play in nature to improve their health and concentration; urban streets should have trees—and yet it reveals just how difficult it is to prove this to businesses and governments. As Kathy Willis says in her narrative, "Nature is far more than just something that is useful for our health. It is not a dispensable commodity. It is an inherent part of us."
Wild and Well Podcasts
A selection of podcast series and episodes that explore the connections between nature and mental health. Let us know if you have any others we should include.
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Featured Resource: Iowa State Parks Passport
Get out and explore the Iowa State Parks to support your Environmental Wellness. Each park has a different point value so be sure to visit the website to get your pass.
Featured MBI REELZ: Crystalline Silica
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