Resources
Research, Reports, and Articles
- Leveraging the Benefits of Green Space (EcoHealth Ontario)
- Green City: Why Nature Matters to Health (EcoHealth Ontario)
- Ecohealth in Action: Achieving Health and Wellbeing (EcoHealth Ontario)
- Realizing the Health Benefits of Green Spaces (EcoHealth Ontario)
- A Conceptual Framework to Understand the Business Case for EcoHealth in Ontario (EcoHealth Ontario)
- Greenspace and EcoHealth Toolkit (EcoHealth Ontario)
- Conserving Biodiversity: A Public Health Imperative (EcoHealth Ontario)
- The Impact of Green Space on Heat and Air Pollution (EcoHealth Ontario)
- A Healthy Dose of Green: Report (EcoHealth Ontario)
- A Healthy Dose of Green: Forum (EcoHealth Ontario)
- The 2021 Canadian City Parks Report: Centring Equity & Resilience (Park People)
- Race and Nature in the City: Engaging Youth of Colour in Nature-Based Activities (Nature Canada)
- Campaign celebrates access to nature for racialized Torontonians — ‘to show that green spaces are not just white spaces’ (Toronto Star)
- Racial and Ethnic Differences in Connectedness to Nature and Landscape Preferences Among College Students (Environmental Justice)
- The Nature Gap (Center for American Progress)
- How ‘nature deprived’ neighborhoods impact the health of people of color (National Geographic)
- Equity in Parks and Recreation (National Recreation and Park Association)
- Inclusive Healthy Places Companion Guide for Park and Recreation Professionals (National Recreation and Park Association)
- Nature is already diverse — now these BIPOC adventurers are making it more inclusive (The Narwhal)
- Nature Gap: Why Outdoor Spaces Lack Diversity and Inclusion (NC State University)
- Meet the scientists embracing traditional Indigenous knowledge (The Narwhal)
- What are Indigenous knowledge systems — and how can they help fight climate change? (TVO)
- Weaving Indigenous knowledge into the scientific method (Nature)
- UCSB MultiCultural Center Presents Braiding Sweetgrass with Robin Kimmerer (MCC Publicity)
- The Teachings of Plants: Finding Common Ground Between Traditional and Scientific Knowledge (Yale University)
- The Intelligence in All Kinds of Life (The On Being Project)
- What Plants Can Teach Us (New York Botanical Garden)
- Environmental racism in Canada: What is it, what are the impacts, and what can we do about it? (Ecojustice)
Mental Health
- Nature can have a nurturing effect on your mental health (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health)
- Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health (Yale Environment 360)
- Mental Health Benefits Of Nature (National Alliance on Mental Health)
- Nurtured by nature (American Psychological Association)
- Screen Time vs Green Time (Nature Canada)
- Children’s Mental Health Ontario (CMHO)
- Centre For Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
- Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA)
- Mental Health Benefits of Nature (National Alliance on Mental Health)
- Stanford researchers find mental health prescription: Nature (Stanford)
- PaRx: A Prescription for Nature (PaRx)
- Prescribing nature: Research suggests the outdoors are good for your mental health (CBC)
Wellness
- How Does Nature Impact Our Well-being? (University of Minnesota)
- Why the Sounds of Nature Are So Good for Health and Well-Being (Everyday Health)
- What is Wellness? (Global Wellness Institute)
- What is Self-Care? (International Self-Care Foundation)
- What is Meditation? (Mindful)
- Nature Sounds (Headspace)
- Four Ways Practicing Yoga Outdoors Enhances It (Yoga Journal)
Source Water Protection
Education and Outdoor Learning
- Why Kids Need to Spend Time in Nature (Child Mind Institute)
- Getting kids outside: one of the best things a parent can do (The Nature Conservancy)
- Screen Time vs Green Time (Nature Canada)
- The Surprising Benefits of Teaching a Class Outside (Greater Good Magazine)
- Beyond the Classroom: Nature Play Design Principles (Child & Nature Alliance of Canada)
- The value of outdoor education (Toronto Star)
- Why the outdoors should be an integral part of every early learning and child-care program (National Post)
- The Value of Outdoor Education and Healthy Child Development (Ganaraska Forest Centre)
- Outdoor learning gains traction as schools get ready to open amid COVID-19 (CBC)
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