Healthy trees – Healthy people: A model for engaging citizen scientists in exotic pest detection in urban parks

Healthy Parks, Healthy People: The Health Benefits of Contact with Nature in a Park Context

Ed. note: With the increasing recognition of the value of nature to human health and wellbeing, Parks Victoria will host the first International Healthy Parks Healthy People Congress in 2010. The aim of the congress is to raise awareness of recent research, highlight case studies, and facilitate discussion regarding the advantages of, and opportunities for, future collaboration. The congress wi...

The Power of Engaging Citizen Scientists for Scientific Progress.

Citizen science has become a powerful force for scientific inquiry, providing researchers with access to a vast array of data points while connecting nonscientists to the authentic process of science. This citizen-researcher relationship creates an incredible synergy, allowing for the creation, execution, and analysis of research projects that would otherwise prove impossible in traditional res...

Healthy forest parks make healthy people: Forest environments enhance human immune function

Action plan for a healthy agriculture, healthy nutrition, healthy people.

The Inaugural Conference on "Healthy Agriculture, Healthy Nutrition, Healthy People" of the World Council on Genetics, Nutrition and Fitness for Health was held at Ancient Olympia, Greece on October 5–8, 2010. The focus of the Conference was on the evolutionary aspects of diet throughout the life cycle in terms of genetic predisposition, health, disease prevention and sedentary lifestyles; the ...

Healthy buildings, healthy people

When researcher Melkam Kebede started her five-year fellowship at the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia, she was struck by the abundance of natural light and design features that encouraged people to move and mingle. “I’ve worked in many places before, but never seen laboratories with so much natural light,” says Kebede, whose research is on the links between type 2 ...