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[Featured Image from: https://www.wired.com/story/the-designer-whos-trying-to-transform-your-city-into-a-sponge/ Credited Image as: “Sanya Mangrove Park is just one of many “sponge” projects in China, a way to work with water instead of fighting it. COURTESY OF THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION”] In 2015, the United Nations (UN) came together to create 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) with a goal of attaining peace and prosperity for…
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My mom always told me never to talk about politics or religion in mixed company. But if you want to combat climate change, you must consider politics. Government policies, programs, and departments control large movements in favor or against the environment. Last week we looked at several countries who have taken on climate change by…
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Last week, we discussed Japanese Forest Bathing, called Shinrin-yoku, described in Florence Williams’ book “The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative” (2017). Well, she goes on to talk about how South Korea is trying to achieve the same thing as Japan. They call it salim yok. Having learned from Japan’s…
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The National Horticulture Society (NHS) Chelsey Flower Show 2024 winner for Best Show Garden was the Forest Bathing garden. Forest Bathing is an ancient Japanese practice called Shinrin-yoku which basically means “bathing in the forest atmosphere and reconnecting with nature through our senses” (rhs.org.uk). The garden was designed by Ula Maria for the Muscular Dystrophy Association of the…
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Last week we talked about the impact of gardens and how the National Horticultural Society (NHS) stated that if just half the population of the UK (approx. 30 million people) planted a tree and nurtured it to full grown, it would “store the carbon equivalent to driving around the planet 11.4 million times! .” “By adding more carbon…
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Let’s talk gardens and greenery – plants on human health and well-being. During the pandemic, a lot of people realized how important the outdoors was to them. They took pleasure in an outdoor walk, they started bringing plants into their homes and once allowed, they started driving to parks and outdoor spaces to feel better.…
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Climate Change and Environmental psychology: How do we get people to interact with the natural world? And how do we get people to think differently about how they interact with the world? I have been interested in these questions for a long time. Then I came across The International Living Future Institute. Perfection! This is…
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Based on the writing of Daniel Kahneman and his work with Amos Tversky, I would like to further explore the relationship between bad events and risky behavior. I find much of their work is pertinent to the crises that plague our country today (e.g., politics and prejudice). Greater understanding of human behavior and its predictability…
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The great contribution of Prospect Theory to expected utility theory and economic theory in general, was consideration of the reference point and the finding that “losses loom larger than gains”. It was found that humans weighed loses approximately twice as much as they did gains. A new psychological perspective considered the impact that emotions have…
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Based on the writings of Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking Fast and Slow New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Part 4 – Choices. Chapter 25: Bernoulli’s Errors (pp. 269 – 277). Daniel Kahneman’s chapter 25, “Bernoulli’s Errors”, was just basically supposed to be an introduction into how Prospect Theory was developed from a realization that the…
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