Forests

Podcast – Earth30+: The Brain Health and Forests

Post published:September 16, 2020

https://player.captivate.fm/episode/c5253839-c1c8-4c1d-8c0a-6ce6d455a0fe Susan Masino, a professor of neuroscience at Trinity College, stresses the link between healthy brain metabolism and nature. I don’t think there are many of us who would deny that joy that one feels by taking a walk in the woods. However, Susan explains to us how and why we need that type of experience to maintain our health and sanity. Forests are not something to be exploited for purely commercial gain. Forests, and nature preserves are a necessary component of a healthy society, and planet.

The Critical Role of Forests in Protecting Climate and Public Health

Major webinar on Forests, Climate and Health webinar, hosted by the Attorney General’s office of Massachusetts.

Post published:September 9, 2020

UPDATE: A recording of the forum is available on YouTube. Tuesday, September 15th at noon https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-critical-role-of-forests-in-protecting-climate-and-public-health-tickets-118534027467 Register ASAP it may fill up. Here is an interview with Melissa Hoffer of the Attorney General’s Office in advance of the event: https://archive.org/details/enviro-show-interview-with-melissa-hoffer-9-3-20 Featuring these scientists: Dr. William Moomaw (5 time IPCC co-author), who some of you have seen, and two other leading scientists (more detailed bios below): Dr. John Sterman from MIT. He has spearheaded major systems analyses and coauthored the En-ROADS Simulator. Dr. Richard Birdsey, (2 time IPCC co-author) retired from the US Forest Service, working on forests and carbon for decades.…

Promoting human health through forests: overview and major challenges

Post published:December 11, 2018

Eeva Karjalainen, Tytti Sarjala, Hannu Raitio Abstract This review aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion about human health, global change, and biodiversity by concentrating on the relationships between forests and human health. This review gives a short overview of the most important health benefits that forests provide to humans, and the risks that forests may pose to human health. Furthermore, it discusses the future challenges for the research on the links between forests and human health, and for delivering health through forests in practice. Forests provide enormous possibilities to improve human health conditions. The results of a vast…