Tag: health
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Food is the Best Medicine
Hospitals and gardens are a natural pair. Why? Because a garden can help a hospital fulfill its mission and responsibilities in so many ways. If hospitals maintained or partnered with local gardens, they would benefit from a nutritious and local food source (resulting in a low/zero carbon footprint), patients and healthcare workers spending time outside,…
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The Nature Fix Book Review
When Florence Williams, a journalist, embarked on her journey to fully understand how nature benefits the human mind, she knew it wasn’t that we don’t appreciate nature: “It’s not the views we mischaracterize, it’s our responses to them. We walk right past magnificence all the time, not just because we’re busy, or because we don’t…
