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Green spaces deliver lasting mental health benefits

Green space in towns and cities could lead to significant and sustained improvements in mental health, finds a new study published in the journal of Environmental Science & Technology.

Analysing data that followed people over a five year period, the research has found that moving to a greener area not only improves people’s mental health, but that the effect continues long after they have moved.

The findings add to evidence that suggests increasing green spaces in cities – such as parks and gardens – could deliver substantial benefits to public health. (more…)

UW students create, harvest fog in campus ‘hoop house’

By Guest PostMarch 20, 2013Education, Environmentben spencer, botany greenhouse, canadian, Chile, doug ewing, economic systems, fog, fog chamber, fog collectors, green space, greenhouse, harvesting water, hoop house, irrigation, low cost materials, mike schwindeller, non profit fogquest, peru, plant vineyards, plants, power washer, rain falls, shu kuei, spanish colonizer, susan bolton, university of washington, vines, water condenses

In the fog chamber, a thick cool mist rolls from one end to the other blurring glasses, wetting caps and coats and sending water dripping down the latest test panel.

University of Washington students have been testing low-cost materials capable of harvesting water from fog in a temporary “hoop house” next to the Botany Greenhouse. They create the fog with a specially adapted power washer and record how much water condenses and drips off various panels of low-cost materials, such as shade cloth. (more…)

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Green spaces deliver lasting mental health benefits

UW students create, harvest fog in campus ‘hoop house’