top 10 examples of connecting people with nature
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10 Best Examples of
Connecting People with
Nature
Colleen Wearn
EDUC 302
● Quality of the experience
-Depth of connection
-Provides perspective and meaning
-Improves mindset, attitude, approach to life
● Quantity of people reached
-Overall number
-Reaches people at a critical point in life, or who
wouldn’t access nature otherwise
● Overall metric: being on quality-quantity
efficient frontier (to borrow from economics)
-Offers maximum quality or quantity or excellent combo
Quality
Quantity
Criteria
1 (ordered roughly from high quantity to high quality)
Inner-City
Parkse.g. Central Park, NYC
2
Trail
networksfor hiking, walking,
biking, etc.
3
Indoor
plants and
greenery
4
Farmer’s
Markets
5
National
Parks
6
Outdoor
SchoolsEducation programs that give
children the chance to study
our environment and learn in
the outdoors
My favorite example: http://w3.mesd.k12.or.us/os/Outdoo
rSchool/Welcome.html
7
Summer Camps
8
Birdwatching
groups and other avenues to connecting
with animals
9
Backyard
gardens
10
NOLS (National Outdoor
Leadership School)
Month-long wilderness expeditions
for students of all ageshttp://www.nols.edu/
(Outward Bound is another similar
example)
11 (because I counted wrong initially :)
The Mountain School of Milton AcademySemester program that provides high school students the opportunity to live
and work on an organic farm in Vermont https://www.mountainschool.org/