#1 People are Part of Nature Breakers & Takers? Time for a Rethink! Nature Needs People & Culture to Sustain Biodiversity besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pa… 🧵3/8

An extra year of healthy life for everyone in the UK is said to be worth £5 trillion. George MacGinnis, @HealthyAgeingUK Challenge Director, says the medicalisation of ageing stops us seeing the opportunities, in our second #UKRIVoices blog: orlo.uk/q5WnI

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Great to see this supported Eden Project - many opportunities for exploring the links between environmental science & nature-connection

The Nature Connection Handbook is approaching 25,000 downloads. Great to know there's such interest in: What nature connection is and why it matters ✅ How to grow closer to nature ✅ Nature connection case studies ✅ bit.ly/NatureConnecti…

If you have a novel idea for engaging the public with environmental science, our Growing Roots programme can help you develop it. You don't have to be a researcher: PhD students, public engagement professionals and community groups can apply too! ukri.org/opportunity/gr…

Every household in England ‘to be within 15 minutes of green space or water’ - how might the quality of that green or blue space matter? We need more evidence on the links between environmental quality & health theguardian.com/environment/20…

City Farm Futures: explore the challenges and opportunities facing City Farms from the cost of living crisis to the role they can play in tackling the climate emergency and improving people's health and well-being. eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-farm-fu…. March 23, online. QUENCH

First solitary bee hotel prepped and painted, ready for another year providing nesting habitat for solitary bees in @BPTpermaculture community #orchards across #Brighton. Several more to go...

Can cities help us fight climate change? Find out in this podcast 🎧 with Jess Davies talking about Rurban Revolution research on the potential role of urban food growing theguardian.com/science/audio/…

Government have promised access to nature for everyone within a 15 minute walk, but have no plan for delivery. The Nature for Everyone campaign calls for a duty to reduce health inequalities through policies to improve access to nature in local development plans. QUENCH

Always good when our research into the benefits of greenspace lets us spend the afternoon there! A fun (and useful!) afternoon learning about what people like about greenspace, and how we can use Lego to create it SEGS James Hutton

Hope for the future: why caring for green infrastructure is vital for thriving people and places - Register for this free online conference from TCPA tcpa.org/event/hope-for…

📢 NEW JOB alert. Interdisciplinary Ecologist UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology BRC . Are you a ecology / environmental science researcher interested in people - nature - data, especially #citizenscience? 🧑‍🤝‍🧑💬🌿📈 We'd love to hear from you! ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Care… BES careers

Interested in the diverse role of urban soils in carbon, water, food, biodiversity, & cultural outcomes in research or practice? Submit your abstracts for #EGU2024 Session: Advancing urban soil understanding and management for multifunctionality🌱🏙️ meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/session/…

How can we plan, design and manage urban environments for the benefit of human health and nature? Our new paper brings together experts from different disciplines and real-world practitioners to explore key challenges and priorities doi.org/10.1016/j.heal… NOW WITH CORRECT LINK