Integrating Nature Into Your Life

Ellen Miles

Founder: Nature is a Human Right

In this video, Ellen gives some advice on getting more nature into your surroundings—both by getting out into "the great outdoors" and by bringing the outdoors in.

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In this video, Ellen gives some advice on getting more nature into your surroundings—both by getting out into "the great outdoors" and by bringing the outdoors in.

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Integrating Nature Into Your Life

3 mins 12 secs

Key learning objectives:

Understand nature’s brain-boosting benefits
Understand ways to bring more nature into your daily life

Overview:

There are many ways to incorporate more nature into your daily life. Ellen has simplified them into two areas: the outdoors and the indoors. Here are some quick tips to help guide you through integrating nature into your life to harness its brain-boosting benefits.

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Summary

How can you bring more nature into your daily life?

There are many ways to bring more nature into your daily life, but we’ve simplified them into two areas: the outdoors and the indoors.

Outdoors

Getting out into nature has hugely significant, diverse benefits. A 2019 study involving around 20,000 participants found that benefits peaked at 120-minutes, after which they start to plateau. For more significant, lasting impacts, 2 solid hours in nature seems to be the magic time frame. If you can find 2 hours out of your weekend, it will be well worth the time.

Indoors

Introduce plants into your home and workspace to allow you to exist alongside nature every day with little effort. For air-purifying plants, try a Snake Plant or Devil's Ivy—they're great at cleaning the air and are able to thrive even in low lighting. Or, for a desk-sized jungle, bonsai ficus and money trees will bring miniature, ancient-looking trees to your space.

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Ellen Miles

Ellen Miles is the founder of Nature is a Human Right: the campaign for the United Nations to recognise daily contact with green space as a human right. She is also the founder and director of Dream Green, a social enterprise empowering communities to "green" in their neighbourhoods.

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