Why “Wilder” Nature Is Better for Your Health A study of the stress-reducing powers of wilderness explores “levels of nature”. By Alex Hutchinson
Why “Wilder” Nature Is Better for Your Health A study of the stress-reducing powers of wilderness explores “levels of nature.By Alex Hutchinson Jun 27, 2018 One of the things I love about my neighborhood in Toronto is that I’m a block away from the Humber River, a historic fur-trading route that flows into Lake Ontario. […]
Technology and the Outdoors by Kraig Becker
Technology and the Outdoors by Kraig Becker By now, many of you have probably read the story that appeared in the New York Times that took a look at the effects of technology on our ability to concentrate, and how going outside, and more specifically getting away from all the technology that has pervaded our life, […]
Books that Will Help You Kick Your Tech Dependence Four authors on paying attention, savoring silence, getting off the grid, and living peaceably with technology
Books that Will Help You Kick Your Tech Dependence Four authors on paying attention, savoring silence, getting off the grid, and living peaceably with technology by Heather Hansman Aug 17, 2019 At D2R we believe technology has its positive ways of adding up to our lives and society but we also believe the more technology […]
Supporting Your Immune System Is Simple Products and companies offering a quick and easy immunity boost aren’t going to help, but these three everyday practices might by Katarina Zimmer
Supporting Your Immune System Is Simple Products and companies offering a quick and easy immunity boost aren’t going to help, but these three everyday practices might . By Katarina Zimmer Mar 27, 2020 As the novel coronavirus spreads around the world, so is a lot of misinformation about how people can protect themselves. Predictably, the […]
Resolution about the Child’s right to connect with Nature and to a healthy environment (2012)
Resolution about the Child’s right to connect with Nature and to a healthy environment (2012) WCC-2012-Res-101-EN Child’s right to connect with nature and to a healthy environment OBSERVING that there is a significant decline in the quality and quantity of children’s direct experience with the natural world as a result of global developments such as […]
A prescription for better health: go alfresco by Harvard Health Letter
A prescription for better health: go alfresco by Harvard Health Letter Published: July, 2010 In this Article one more time we can read more about the benefits of being outside! Our vitamin D levels going up, our bodies getting more exercise in the green and most of all the “happy factor” we always encounter while […]
This is your brain on the Ocean by Kiki Von Glinow
This is your brain on the Ocean by Kiki Von Glinow At D2R we believe being around nature and specially water, the ocean has extraordinary effects our whole beings! In this article the author explains how the effects of the ocean reaches out and touches all of our senses! HearingDuring our formative memory making […]
This Is Your Brain on Nature When we get closer to nature—be it untouched wilderness or a backyard tree—we do our overstressed brains a favor. By Florence Williams
This Is Your Brain on Nature: When we get closer to nature—be it untouched wilderness or a backyard tree—we do our overstressed brains a favor. By Florence Williams WHEN YOU HEAD out to the desert, David Strayer is the kind of man you want behind the wheel. He never texts or talks on the phone while driving. […]
Take Two Hours of Pine Forest and Call Me in the Morning
Take Two Hours of Pine Forest and Call Me in the Morning These days, screen-addicted Americans are more stressed out and distracted than ever. And there’s no app for that. But there is a radically simple remedy: get outside. Florence Williams travels to the deep woods of Japan, where researchers are backing up the theory […]
The Radically Simple Digital Diet We All Need
The Radically Simple Digital Diet We All Need Outside Mag podcast transcript..worth reading These days our smartphone addiction has gotten so intense that many of us now habitually use the devices even when we’re supposedly unplugging. We listen to podcasts on our trail runs and endlessly document our weekend adventures for Instagram. All this has […]