Outdoor walking groups can facilitate interaction with nature, social interaction, and physical activity, yet little is known about their efficacy in promoting mental, emotional, and social wellbeing.…
Apologies if this has been discussed in the past.The journals that we get from our Royal College (RCPsych) could be an electronic journal. Most of us tend to accumulate the journals which end up being…
Daniel Maughan, the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Sustainability Fellowlooks at the evidence of how climate change is impacting on mental healthin the latest BMJ Blog coordinated by the Centre for…
The NHS Forest has been shortlisted for an HSJ award in the "Improving Environmental and Social Sustainability Category". With over 1300 entries this year we are very pleased to have got through the…
A new report from from UEA's Norwich Medical School and the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York shows that people's wellbeing is improved if they walk or cycle to work - or even take…
Interesting article by George Marshall in New York Times in run up to release of his new book Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate…
This year has been an interesting year for weather, from terrible floods to wonderful heat waves. Do we have to accept that from now on weather systems are going to become more unstable? If we do, how…
The Men Who Made Us Spend is a thought provoking series about consumerism: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01zxm9b It made me consider again the occupational meaning of what we buy and how we buy. A…
“CARE LAND” (la Tierra que te cuida), was created with the aim of enhancing the opportunities that health-nature relationship opens to the development of areas of high environmental value (Nature…