Traffic sourced air pollution is a major contributor to human disease, with children and the elderly being most vulnerable to its toxic effects!!
Louisville's Green Heart Project conducts a clinical trial in which nature is the drug.
"Landscape as drug is our concept," says Brent Bucknum, the founding principal of Oakland, California's Hyphae Design Laboratory. It's his way of explaining how he and his team, which includes ecologists, engineers, and landscape architects...
Trees can add beauty and serenity to a neighborhood -- but can they also improve the health of its residents? In Kentucky, the University of Louisville ...
Trees can add beauty and serenity to a neighborhood -- but can they also improve the health of its residents? In Kentucky, the University of Louisville — with help from the National Institutes of Health and The Nature Conservancy — aims to find out. Called Green Heart Louisville, the initiative involves a large-scale scientific study of how greenspaces affect public health. John Yang reports.
Louisville Metro Government’s Office of Sustainability and its partners embarked on an exciting project called Green for Good: to strategically unite interrelated sustainability ef ...
Hyphae Design Laboratory is working with the University of Louisville’s Envirome Institute, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), National Institute of Health (NIH), Washington University, ...