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San Diego Tree Week, an initiative of The Water Conservation Garden, aims to bring neighbors together to plant trees in their community. Businesses, schools, and individuals will come together to celebrate the many benefits of trees.

This week-long celebration encourages all San Diego County residents to appreciate and understand the usefulness of trees. The campaign aims to slow climate change by educating thousands of San Diegans about the benefits of tree planting and with a goal to plant 500 trees in San Diego County in 2023.

San Diego Tree Week 2023 aims to teach our community as trees grow, we slow climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the air, storing carbon in the trees and soil, and releasing oxygen into the atmosphere. Here at The Water Conservation Garden, we believe that planting trees is something positive that everyone can do to slow down climate change.  

The need for trees has never been greater because trees play an essential role in reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Trees also offer cooling shade, block cold winter winds, attract birds and wildlife, purify our air, prevent soil erosion, clean our water, and add grace and beauty to our community. Join The Water Conservation Garden and get involved today!

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San Diego Tree Week, an initiative of The Water Conservation Garden, aims to bring neighbors together to plant trees in their community. Businesses, schools, and individuals will come together to celebrate the many benefits of trees.

This week-long celebration encourages all San Diego County residents to appreciate and understand the usefulness of trees. The campaign aims to slow climate change by educating thousands of San Diegans about the benefits of tree planting and with a goal to plant 500 trees in San Diego County in 2023.

San Diego Tree Week 2023 aims to teach our community as trees grow, we slow climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the air, storing carbon in the trees and soil, and releasing oxygen into the atmosphere. Here at The Water Conservation Garden, we believe that planting trees is something positive that everyone can do to slow down climate change.  

The need for trees has never been greater because trees play an essential role in reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Trees also offer cooling shade, block cold winter winds, attract birds and wildlife, purify our air, prevent soil erosion, clean our water, and add grace and beauty to our community. Join The Water Conservation Garden and get involved today!

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San Diego Tree Week, an initiative of The Water Conservation Garden, aims to bring neighbors together to plant trees in their community. Businesses, schools, and individuals will come together to celebrate the many benefits of trees.

This week-long celebration encourages all San Diego County residents to appreciate and understand the usefulness of trees. The campaign aims to slow climate change by educating thousands of San Diegans about the benefits of tree planting and with a goal to plant 500 trees in San Diego County in 2023.

San Diego Tree Week 2023 aims to teach our community as trees grow, we slow climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the air, storing carbon in the trees and soil, and releasing oxygen into the atmosphere. Here at The Water Conservation Garden, we believe that planting trees is something positive that everyone can do to slow down climate change.  

The need for trees has never been greater because trees play an essential role in reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Trees also offer cooling shade, block cold winter winds, attract birds and wildlife, purify our air, prevent soil erosion, clean our water, and add grace and beauty to our community. Join The Water Conservation Garden and get involved today!

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Help us celebrate Earth Day at the Nature Museum by working at various stations during the day long event.
The sign up sessions are 10am-1pm and 1pm-4pm.
More info can be found at:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f4ba8ae28aafd0-earth#/

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la nostra associazione opera per promuovere la tutela, il soccorso deli animali e della fauna selvatica, l'ambiente, la biodiversità attraverso la gestione di strutture atte.
Opera per la lotta e la prevenzione del randagismo.

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React Native Full Stack Developer (visual guide)- Biophelia Theme
: Extensive research has shown that immersion in nature has multiple positive benefits for individuals that can result in positive impacts on organizations and institutions. These include greater focus, productivity, creativity and sense of wellbeing; stronger social ties and immunities; improved self-esteem; and lower stress, anxiety, and blood pressure. [1]

 

Nature is often disregarded and heedlessly damaged by commercial actors such as banks and real estate developers in pursuit of profit; however, if these actors understood more about how nature can affect their employees, they would recognize that preserving nature and encouraging people to spend time in nature could actually increase the profitability of their ventures. Despite the fact that immersion in nature is a proven way to increase public health, individual focus and productivity, and general learning and wellbeing, it is not embraced by institutions as a tool to achieve these goals.

This project will increase the degree to which any individual, institution, or group of people can target achievable goals through immersion in nature; it will link specific amounts of time spent in parks to measurable outcomes such as increased productivity, social capital, and wellbeing.

Research has demonstrated that time spent in nature is good for humans. But there has been little research on the applications of these findings-on the practical advantages that companies, nonprofits , and universities could achieve month after month, and year after year by integrating nature immersion and nature flex-time into the portfolio of benefits that they offer. There has been similarly little research on how encouraging immersion in nature could help health insurers could help their customers lower risk and improve medical outcomes.

[1] Paul Sandifer, Ariana Sutton-Grier, Bethney P. Ward ""Exploring Connections Among Nature, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Human Health and Well-Being: Opportunities to Enhance Health and Biodiversity Conservation "" April 2015, Ecosystem Services 12:1-15,

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270578344_Exploring_Connections_Among_Nature_Biodiversity_Ecosystem_Services_and_Human_Health_and_Well-Being_Opportunities_to_Enhance_Health_and_Biodiversity_Conservation


React Native Developer Needed
 
- Experienced React-Native developer to build cross-platform app for both iOS and Android platforms.

- Knowledgeable of modern JavaScript (including ES6 syntax), HTTP, and Rest API development.

- Able to utilize and debug third party dependencies.

- Able to build smooth UI and extend current functionality of existing code base.

- Experience with mobile application architecture.

- Aid in the development of end to end app design and CI/CD processes.

- Strong team player with focus on collaborative effort; a willingness to share knowledge and communicate across teams is vital.

Developor is for Nature Counter:

Nature Counter./Biophelia Counter

""A recent study of 20,000 people published in the journal Scientific Reports finds that people who spend at least 120 minutes per week - that’s about 18 minutes a day - in nature are far more likely to report being in good health and having higher psychological well-being, as compared to those who don’t embrace nature. People who spent some time in nature, but fewer than 120 minutes a week, ""were no more likely to report good health or high well-being than those who reported 0 minutes,"" the study authors found.""

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-the-exact-number-of-minutes-to-spend-in-nature-each-week-for-better-health-2019-06-21

 

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer to produce scalable software solutions. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.

As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility.

If you’re also familiar with Agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you.

Responsibilities
Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
Design client-side and server-side architecture
Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
Write effective APIs
Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
Create security and data protection settings
Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
Write technical documentation
Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software

You can see the benefits of time in the park put on Nature Counter's linkedin page here- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nature-counter-by-crowddoing_forestbathing-naturedose-attentionrestorationtheory-activity-6805531019593302016-1hnd, You can see more background on our Nature Counter team here- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nature-counter-by-crowddoing_forestbathing-naturedose-attentionrestorationtheory-activity-6805531019593302016-1hnd. You can see a post about how just 30 minutes a week in nature reduces the chance of depression by 7%.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/health/nature-outdoors-health.html

 

120 Minutes per week in nature is also geo-locateable on phones. Have you gotten your 120 minutes a week at medium edose nature, or 90 minutes a day of high dose nature?

That is determinable by if your smart phone shows you in the park for how many minutes.

 

We aim to build an app that counts how many minutes in nature each week you have spent and reporting that back to the person. This is like step counts, but based on time in nature as walks through non-parks don’t count for the nature counter.


- Participate in weekly discussions across teams and stakeholders on ways to reach project goals.
Time-based nature benefits-
15 Minutes in Nature
Decrease in pulse rate by 3.9%
Decrease in systolic blood pressure by 1.9%
Decrease in diastolic blood pressure by 2.1%
Lower levels of cortisol (stress hormone)
Increased parasympathetic nerve activity and decreased sympathetic nerve activity. The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems work together to control respiration, digestion, and heart rate. When you are calm, the parasympathetic nervous system is increased, lowering your heart rate and respiration, and increasing digestion. In a stressful situation, the fight or flight (sympathetic) response is triggered, dilating pupils, increasing heart rate and respiration, which allows you to breathe faster.
Feel more relaxed, yet energized
30 minutes in nature
All of the benefits from 15 minutes in nature AND
Increased attention span
Reduction in depression symptoms by 7%
Reduction in high blood pressure by 9%
50 minutes in nature
All of the benefits from 15, 30, and 40 minutes in nature AND
An increased attention span with the ability to block out irrelevant stimuli and concentrate
A decreased level of anxiety
120 minutes (2 hours) in nature
All of the benefits from 15, 30, 40, and 50 minutes in nature AND
An overall sense of well-being and happiness
A better, more restful sleep
150 minutes (2.5 hours) in nature
All of the benefits from 15, 30, 40, 50, and 120 minutes in nature AND
Reduction in feelings of anxiety
Reduced need to ruminate on past events and focus on the future
200 minutes in nature
All of the benefits from 15, 30, 40, 50, and 120 minutes in nature AND
The feeling of well-being and happiness

Nature benefits we're communicating:
Performance on backwards digit-span (a cognitively demanding task that requires directed attention/requires the person to block out irrelevant stimuli and focus) significantly improved while walking in nature Maintain the focus staring at something on paper better during and after a walk in nature. The ability to focus was not only recuperated by nature, but was even better compared to before going out into nature. A faster and more stable pattern of responding on the Attention Network Task Cognitive performance especially for self-perceived affect was found to improve significantly more after nature interactions compared to urban interactions. Overall, BDS ( backwards digit span) performance improved on average by 0.75 (SD = 2.11) points from pre- to post-nature interactions and 0.29 (SD = 2.19) BDS points from pre- to post urban environment interactions. Reduce the population prevalence of depression and high blood pressure by up to 7% and 9% respectively. A lower rates of depression and of high blood pressure. 3.9% decrease in pulse rate. Systolic blood pressure was lower (1.9% decrease). Diastolic blood pressure was lower (2.1% decrease). good reported health and high subjective wellbeing lower concentrations of cortisol, lower pulse rate, lower blood pressure, greater parasympathetic nerve activity, and lower sympathetic nerve activity walking leads to improved psychological state, reduced state-anxiety and perceived stress

#forestbathing ""forest bathing program significantly reduced pulse rate and significantly increased the score for vigor and decreased the scores for depression, fatigue, anxiety, and confusion. Urinary adrenaline after forest bathing showed a tendency toward decrease. Urinary dopamine after forest bathing was significantly lower than that after urban area walking, suggesting the relaxing effect of the forest bathing. Serum adiponectin after the forest bathing was significantly greater than that after urban area walking.""


https://time.com/5259602/japanese-forest-bathing/


 

3 days ago

""immersion in the forest environment and conscious activation of the senses [58,59,60] (for an overview of example exercises carried out during forest bathing, see McEwan et al. [61]). Originally conceptualized as a form of preventative healthcare, forest bathing is now used as a targeted intervention for specific mental health issues and forms part of the national health service in Japan [59]. Over the past two decades, considerable emerging evidence around the efficacy of forest bathing as a therapeutic practice has been developed, principally stemming from Japan and South Korea [62,63].

A systematic review and meta-analysis conducted by Kotera et al. [11] outlines the evidence in support of forest bathing as an effective mental health therapy, with regards to its capacity to alleviate short-term mood disturbance. Forest bathing could be a suitable therapy, given it is a relatively safe and gentle practice, carried out in a supportive environment. It has been recommended as effective in the treatment of anxiety [11], depression [64], and addiction [58], and has been studied as an intervention for inpatients experiencing affective and psychotic disorders [65]. Miyazaki [59] additionally found support for forest bathing’s capacity to increase positive psychological resources, while improving the cardiovascular, immune, and respiratory systems.

Biophilia [66], the predominant theoretical framework used in the East, and Attention Restoration Theory [67,68] have been suggested as contributing to forest bathing’s therapeutic effects. "" #wellbeing



"" Forty-two articles that tested natural environments or stimuli against a suitable control, and included an objective measure of cognitive performance, had been published since July 2013. Articles were subjected to screening procedures and quality appraisal. Random effects meta-analyses were performed to calculate pooled effect sizes across 8 cognitive domains using data from 49 individual outcome measures. Results showed that working memory, cognitive flexibility, and to a less-reliable degree, attentional control, are improved after exposure to natural environments, with low to moderate effect sizes."" #attentionrestorationtheory#forestbathing

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30130463/


 

2 weeks ago

""In 2015, there was a journal article published in the Ecosystem Services by Paul Sandifer, Ariana Sutton-Grier, and Bethney Ward. It offers the most comprehensive list of benefits from spending time outdoors.

 

These include: reduced stress, depression, dejection, anger, aggression, frustration, hostility, illness and sick leave, and increased self-esteem, psychological well-being, opportunities for reflection, creativity, etc""

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-can-nature-help-my-business-anja-falk-rye-olsen/?trackingId=5U9B8oA6DTqJphY4jd0N7g%3D%3D


""In one study, University of Michigan students were given a brief memory test, then divided into two groups. One group took a walk around an arboretum, and the other took a walk down a city street. When the participants returned and did the test again, those who had walked among trees did almost 20% percent better than they had first time. The people who had taken in city sights instead did not consistently improve."" #biophelia

http://www.breseefinancial.com.advisor.news/being-outside-can-improve-memory-fight-depression-and-lower-blood-pressure-here-are-12-science-backed-reasons-to-spend-more-time-outdoors/?c=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJub2RlX2lkIjoxMTMyMCwicHJldmlldyI6ZmFsc2UsImNvbW1faWQiOjI1NDkxODgsImRlc3RfaWQiOjM0ODM1ODAsInJlYWRlcl9pZCI6bnVsbH0.7coT-S8RhJPEb63bdhUdfHBQbl14RrSefSbMRxwgUK4


""A study published in 2010 evaluated the effect of forest bathing on immune function. For a group of Japanese adults, a three-day trip to the forest increased the number of white blood cells in their blood. These levels of white blood cells stayed elevated for more than 30 days after their adventure in the woods. "" #health#wellness#preventionworks

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-reasons-why-being-outside-important-benjamin-trengrove/


""It's estimated that between 60-90% of doctor's visits in the US are stress related(3). ... the University of Sussex claims a nature walk reduces stress only by 42%"" #mentalhealth#wellness

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/forest-bathingwithout-water-weinstein-ms-rn-crni-facw-faan/?trackingId=uJ%2FmIJN0JzKRH4Iaqwqaqw%3D%3D


""experiencing nature. Strayer asserts, ""Our brains aren’t tireless three-pound machines; they’re easily fatigued When we slow down, stop the busywork, and take in beautiful natural surroundings, not only do we feel restored, but our mental performance improves too."" Strayer has demonstrated this concept with a group of Outward Bound participants, who performed 50 percent better on creative problem-solving tasks after three days of wilderness backpacking."" #creative#wellness#wellbeing

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/health-effects-interacting-nature-mimi-guarneri-md-facc-abihm/?trackingId=lwV8JIb8Eu72%2BxEgq3GfGA%3D%3D


 

2 weeks ago

""Yoshifumi Miyazaki noted that, of the 7 million years human beings and their direct ancestors have been alive, we have lived in nature for 99.99% of that time. Therefore, it’s a very small percentage of time we have lived in the urban environments that we have created!

 

We are really adapted to living in nature. So living in these artificial environments actually creates stress on our bodies. We are made to be in nature and our bodies and brains respond well to it."" #naturalworld#scienceandenvironment#biodiversity#conservation

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/forest-bathing-viv-kenchington/



""The joy of engaging with nature is that it can lower stress, relieve anxiety, elevate your mood, enhance self-esteem, stimulate creativity and improve working memory."" #forestbathing#wel#wellbeing#lifestylemedicine

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/boost-your-mental-well-being-2019-neil-jones-/


""n the last few decades, we have discovered that as adults we have what is called *neuroplasticity*. This means we are not doomed to live with the consequences of the things that have happened to us, but actually have the deep ability to create new connections and ""rewire"" parts of our brains.


Here’s where it gets really interesting and FUN. ☀️


It takes over 400 repetitions to create a new synapse (connection) in the brain.

Opportunity Details

Junior Instructional Design Volunteer (Attention Restoration Theory) at CrowdDoing.world

Role Summary:
We are looking for an aspiring Instructional Designer to design and develop learning and practicing experiences. Are you passionate about learning new skills and teaching others? Then this role is for you.

Essential Tasks:

Designs and develops learning programs in accordance to CrowdDoing's Service Learning model.
The Junior Instructional Designer will work in consultation with the Learning and Development Lead or Senior Instructional Designers to initiate, develop, implement and evaluate CrowdDoing’s learning initiatives.
Assess training needs through surveys, interviews with volunteers, focus groups, or consultation with Learning and Development lead or Sr. Instructional Designers.
Design, plan, organize, or direct orientation and training programs for volunteers.
Obtain, organize, or develop training procedure manuals, guides, or course materials, such as handouts or visual materials.
Partners and collaborates with other departments to pilot or implement initiatives that require learning professional support.

Skills & Competencies:
Sincere commitment to work collaborating with all constituent groups, volunteers, donors, program participants, and other supporters.
Receptive to feedback and is able to work upon areas of opportunity for improvement.
Actively looks for ways to learn and improve output.
Comfortable working in a startup phase non-profit organization.
Skills:
Learning Strategies , Instructing, Active Listening,Coordination,Critical Thinking , Judgment and Decision Making, Monitoring Social Perceptiveness, Writing, Persuasion Time Management , Complex Problem Solving, Service Orientation, Systems Analysis, Systems Evaluation, Operations Analysis and Negotiation.


Working knowledge of LMS, e-learning content authoring tools, Microsoft office and google suite.


The only way CrowdDoing.world can realize its impact potential is through virtual volunteers,service learners(http://blog.reframeit.com/service-learning-and-skilled-volunteering/), and micro-leaders (https://real-leaders.com/leveraging-micro-leadership-to-make-aspirational-goals-achievable/) coming together.Micro-leadership at CrowdDoing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhdB2YJ8Ocs&app=desktop). Micro-leadership means that each person adopts a dimension of responsibility for a collective problem in our society through collaborating on that area creatively individually and together through social innovation.

Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/crowddoing.world/),

Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CrowdDoing-515295062320613) ,

LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/18910309/).

 

If you have any questions about processes for joining crowddoing as a volunteer please write to volunteerorientation@crowddoing.world

Opportunity Details

Junior Instructional Design Volunteer (attention restoration theory) at CrowdDoing.world

You can see an example form nature counter instructional design team here-
The content is available at: https://rise.articulate.com/share/e-r4NQVdVlXQznLcT3Z0UZHWOeBjrF-0"".

We're now working on a moodle version in that team and are planning on an Udemy version as well. Nature Counter Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/74278432/

CrowdDoing LMS- https://learn.crowddoing.world/

More about Nature Counter at a project level is at the bottom of this post.
Role Summary:
We are looking for an aspiring Instructional Designer to design and develop learning and practicing experiences. Are you passionate about learning new skills and teaching others? Then this role is for you.

Essential Tasks:

Designs and develops learning programs in accordance to CrowdDoing's Service Learning model.
The Junior Instructional Designer will work in consultation with the Learning and Development Lead or Senior Instructional Designers to initiate, develop, implement and evaluate CrowdDoing’s learning initiatives.
Assess training needs through surveys, interviews with volunteers, focus groups, or consultation with Learning and Development lead or Sr. Instructional Designers.
Design, plan, organize, or direct orientation and training programs for volunteers.
Obtain, organize, or develop training procedure manuals, guides, or course materials, such as handouts or visual materials.
Partners and collaborates with other departments to pilot or implement initiatives that require learning professional support.

Skills & Competencies:
Sincere commitment to work collaborating with all constituent groups, volunteers, donors, program participants, and other supporters.
Receptive to feedback and is able to work upon areas of opportunity for improvement.
Actively looks for ways to learn and improve output.
Comfortable working in a startup phase non-profit organization.
Skills:
Learning Strategies , Instructing, Active Listening,Coordination,Critical Thinking , Judgment and Decision Making, Monitoring Social Perceptiveness, Writing, Persuasion Time Management , Complex Problem Solving, Service Orientation, Systems Analysis, Systems Evaluation, Operations Analysis and Negotiation.


Working knowledge of LMS, e-learning content authoring tools, Microsoft office and google suite.


The only way CrowdDoing.world can realize its impact potential is through virtual volunteers,service learners(http://blog.reframeit.com/service-learning-and-skilled-volunteering/), and micro-leaders (https://real-leaders.com/leveraging-micro-leadership-to-make-aspirational-goals-achievable/) coming together.Micro-leadership at CrowdDoing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhdB2YJ8Ocs&app=desktop). Micro-leadership means that each person adopts a dimension of responsibility for a collective problem in our society through collaborating on that area creatively individually and together through social innovation.

Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/crowddoing.world/),

Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CrowdDoing-515295062320613) ,

LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/18910309/).

 

People who live in cities and the communities that connect them can achieve goals through increasing their nature dose. Any country can embrace a national strategy of getting its people and institutions enough time in nature for the community to thrive. This has economic dividends, social capital dividends, mental health health dividends and physical health cost savings.

CrowdDoing has found small groups of trained professionals who know about specific nature benefits. There are people who have been trained in ""Attention Restoration Theory"", ""forest bathing"", ""eco-therapy"", ""nature deficit disorder reduction"", and other related terms. This has not be turned into a universal type of knowledge for any society to adopt in a modern context of majorities of the population living in cities and suburbs. There are examples of elements of biophelia as strategy, Singapore’s Airport, Milan’s Bosco Verticale. But the parks themselves are under-utilized globally by populations compared to their impact potential in cities.

CrowdDoing’s goal with Nature Counter is to create universal usable knowledge about what the benefits of nature dose are, how to access the benefits of nature dose and how to validate nature dose benefits for yourself. A world with more advanced processes to support nature dose could be more convivial, more resilient, have greater neuro-plasticity and would have faster learners and greater upward mobility among a plethora of benefits.

There is a user-centered design gap in nature in culture in that it is not discussed in terms of its benefits. Exercise may have an obvious connection to health but the fact that people sitting on a park bench are experiencing a scientifically established public health benefit is not universally understood. Scientists have been explaining this to other researchers but it hasn’t become universal knowledge any country in the world. No country currently recommends to all people in the country a level of nature dose to achieve basic human health goals the way nutritional recommendations are made by most countries. Nature dose empirically should be at parity with nutrition as an opportunity for established health interventions to achieve public health goals through interdisciplinary cooperation and education.

National nature strategy involves:

Nature dose education for the learner.

Nature dose education for a person in a direct support role (friend, family member, teacher etc.)

Nature dose education for a person designing systems for others that need nature dose alignment- ie employers, administrators, managers, etc.

Nature dose for people who are communicating with people who have all of these roles- educating people who create culture on nature dose, etc.

Nature dose validation (app) features

Nature Flex time for employers features

Nature capacity building for educators about the benefits of nature dose (ie all teachers who could host outside could receive that ) features

Nature capacity building for access gaps in medical knowledge for nature dose for nature prescriptions by doctors, pharmacists and nurses features

Increase the percentage of the country getting nature dose features to increase adoption and habit building

Calculate the benefits to the health care system of their getting nature dose

Nature dose education for storytellers, filmakers, tv show makers, ie how does the local culture establish nature dose benefits and real, empirical, and multi-dimensioal.

If you have any questions about processes for joining crowddoing as a volunteer please write to volunteerorientation@crowddoing.world or bobby@reframeit.com

Opportunity Details

CrowdDoing Learning & Development Volunteers Needed/Instructional Design Volunteer Leaders Needed for Nature Counter by CrowdDoing.

 

The framework will synthesize and simplify existing literature on specific health and commerce benefits of specific ""doses"" of nature. The gap between the research and its applications will be filled in by the ""citizen scientists"" involved-a practice that has been used to excellent effect in fields such as astronomy, ornithology, and conservation science. The customizable nature of the App encourages individuals and institutions to experiment with and pilot nature-immersion interventions that are right-sized to their goals. They have the opportunity to test for themselves the degree to which increasing nature ""doses"" for their institution increases productivity and employee wellbeing. Our aim is to co-create nature immersion research by embedding the process of research localization into the piloting process so that each organization ends up with the toolkit of nature immersion capabilities most suited to their needs.

 

 

When organizations get evidence of increased performance, they are likely to make permanent nature-based interventions. For example, a hospital with two divisions could have surgeons in one division get ""flex time"" to be free to spend 50 minutes a day in a local park. (A GPS-enabled application would confirm that they, in fact do spend that amount of time in the park.) After a specified period of time, their medical mistake rate and burn-out rate could be compared with that of the surgeons in the control group. Each organization can choose to utilize research metrics and methods that have the greatest bearings on their needs. Research methods such as Networked Improvement Communities, Context Variation by Design, and Positive Deviance are examples of methodologies that have demonstrated that proof-of-concept experiments can be emulated and customized across a network. Our goal is to help individuals as well as organizations and institutions, by making it easy for them to acquire the health literacy to decide how much time in nature they need to achieve their goals.

 

 

The framework will synthesize and simplify existing literature on specific health and commerce benefits of specific ""doses"" of nature. The gap between the research and its applications will be filled in by the ""citizen scientists"" involved-a practice that has been used to excellent effect in fields such as astronomy, ornithology, and conservation science. The customizable nature of the App encourages individuals and institutions to experiment with and pilot nature-immersion interventions that are right-sized to their goals. They have the opportunity to test for themselves the degree to which increasing nature ""doses"" for their institution increases productivity and employee wellbeing. Our aim is to co-create nature immersion research by embedding the process of research localization into the piloting process so that each organization ends up with the toolkit of nature immersion capabilities most suited to their needs.

 

Our objective is to eliminate this disconnect between the importance of nature and how nature is treated. Our team of researchers and experienced practitioners believe that this disconnect is so ingrained in societies that it can only change organically, from the bottom up. We believe that when more and more individuals and more and more managers in businesses are helped to experience the positive effects of nature, and then enabled to identify ways to efficiently preserve nature without sacrificing personal and professional gain, then nature will become a more important a factor in decision-making. As individuals and managers become adept at factoring in the importance of nature in their personal and strategic decisions, they will be more likely to embrace the preservation of nature as a goal-one which the global climate change crisis makes all the more important. Eco anxiety can reduce mental wellbeing but eco-immersion combined with collaboration on nature-based solutions that benefit the climate can both improve the mental health of individuals and the resilience of the cities in which they live.

 

The framework will synthesize and simplify existing literature on specific health and commerce benefits of specific ""doses"" of nature. The gap between the research and its applications will be filled in by the ""citizen scientists"" involved-a practice that has been used to excellent effect in fields such as astronomy, ornithology, and conservation science. The customizable nature of the App encourages individuals and institutions to experiment with and pilot nature-immersion interventions that are right-sized to their goals. They have the opportunity to test for themselves the degree to which increasing nature ""doses"" for their institution increases productivity and employee wellbeing. Our aim is to co-create nature immersion research by embedding the process of research localization into the piloting process so that each organization ends up with the toolkit of nature immersion capabilities most suited to their needs.

 

 

 

When organizations get evidence of increased performance, they are likely to make permanent nature-based interventions. For example, a hospital with two divisions could have surgeons in one division get ""flex time"" to be free to spend 50 minutes a day in a local park. (A GPS-enabled application would confirm that they, in fact do spend that amount of time in the park.) After a specified period of time, their medical mistake rate and burn-out rate could be compared with that of the surgeons in the control group. Each organization can choose to utilize research metrics and methods that have the greatest bearings on their needs. Research methods such as Networked Improvement Communities, Context Variation by Design, and Positive Deviance are examples of methodologies that have demonstrated that proof-of-concept experiments can be emulated and customized across a network. Our goal is to help individuals as well as organizations and institutions, by making it easy for them to acquire the health literacy to decide how much time in nature they need to achieve their goals.

 

 

 

Responsibilities

Create and execute learning strategies and programs

Evaluate individual and organizational development needs

Implement various learning methods companywide (e.g. coaching, job-shadowing, online training)

Design and deliver e-learning courses, workshops and other trainings

Assess the success of development plans and help employees make the most of learning opportunities

Help managers develop their team members through career pathing

Track budgets and negotiate contracts

Hire and oversee training and L&D Specialists

Preferred Requirements and skills

Current knowledge of effective learning and development methods

Familiarity with e-learning platforms and practices

Experience in project management and budgeting

Proficient in MS Office and Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Excellent communication and negotiation skills; sharp business acumen

Ability to build rapport with employees and vendors

BSc/BA in Business, Psychology or a related field

Professional certification (e.g. CPLP) is a plus

Why join CrowdDoing's Nature Counter? Join us as a CrowdDoing Learning & Development Volunteer Needed/Instructional Design Volunteer Leaders Needed for Nature Counter by CrowdDoing and you can collaborate to help democratize ecotherapy.

Here is why you should consider volunteering with us on this:

 

Our Brains are Wired for Nature-- natural elements-including trees, grass, water, and even buildings-can improve health outcomes and reduce stress and burnout among employees and medical workers.

 

We are optimizing the Nature Counter framework to deliver maximum impact for public health by making it easy for individuals and organizations to incorporate nature-based activities into their work.

 

We are seeking dedicated volunteers to help us realize the ultimate goal of this project.

Who can you help?

 

The Nature Counter aims to improve the health and lives of countless individuals and medical workers across the country and all over the world.

Organizations all over the world use our Eco-Learning approach to integrate natural elements into their environment to create a healthy and productive work environment.

 

Volunteers are an integral part of our success. Volunteers collaborate with CrowdDoing on Nature Counter flexibly. You can either lend your expertise and be hands-on, or you can help us coordinate the efforts of other volunteers to make this project a success.

You and your skills and experience have the potential to transform the ecotherapy movement in an era where everybody, is prioritizing wellness, environmental stewardship, and employee wellbeing via getting enough ecological immersion for each person.

Why contribute to CrowdDoing's Nature Counter?

As a volunteer you will be working on the cutting edge of innovative approaches to nature-based interventions.

You will be contributing directly to CrowdDoing's mission of bringing nature back into people's lives.

You will be working with highly motivated, forward thinking professionals who are passionate about helping others.

You will have the opportunity to shape the future of this project. We are looking for volunteers to help us co-create this framework.


 
Digital volunteers visit webinars about ecotherapy, read books about ecotherapy, and read scholarly articles about case studies of ecotherapy from the people who are already practicing it. We are then aiming to make this field self-navigable for people who are new to ecotherapy.
 
Are you interested in learning more of what exists online from research created by experienced ecologists and help us communicate these scientific findings to a broad audience? Do you want to help us democratize ecotherapy?

Opportunity Details

Role Brief:

Role Name:

 

Scrum Master - CrowdDoing.world's Nature Counter

 

Min Qualifications required: Bachelors / Masters

 

Min Experience Required: (in no. of yrs) 2+

 

Experience or Knowledge in a specific subject or area required: Experience software development, project management

 

Minimum Volunteer hours required: (in hrs per week) 5-20

 

Project Overview:

Project Name:

 

Nature Counter

Project Duration: (in months) 6-12 months (Ongoing)

 

Project outline:

120 minutes a week in nature is a basic minimal nature dose every person in a city should achieve as a matter of public health. 90 minutes a day five days a week every week is an optimal recommended dose of nature for every person in a city. CrowdDoing studied biophelia in cities and found that there are more than one hundred diseases that can be prevented through access to nature. Nature Counter is a CrowdDoing concept, imminently to become a functional prototype that lets each person see if they are getting that level of time in nature per week or per month. Time in nature is approximated through the kind of nature that exists in cities- geo-locations of people based on their cell phones when they are in parks. Nature Counter tracks each person’s time in park when the application is on. This allows people to track it the way step counters track it. The aim is to have a universal public health goal of getting the city’s people to have enough time in parks to realize the biophelia collective health dividend. The concept is that nature is both an individual activity and a collective goal that friends should encourage each-other to achieve. Nature Counter is aimed at getting each person to track their time in nature and adjust their calendar over time to increase their time in nature. Our estimations are that people’s time in nature would rise if they could track this and have target goals for their health due to time in nature accordingly.

 

Biophelia counter builds off of the evidence that people who use step counters walk 27% more than people who don’t. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21901412/ns/health-fitness/t/people-walk-mile-more-if-wearing-pedometer/ Assuming Nature Counter can achieve similar results for biophelia, whatever percentage of the city who downloaded the nature counter application. Assuming that San Francisco residents visit parks at an average level, they would visit parks 29 times a year- https://www.nrpa.org/blog/29-number-of-times-americans-visit-their-local- parks-annually/. Assuming the minimal dose goal, each person would need to increase that by another 40% to get to an average of a weekly visit to a local park and experience of biophelia. Each person would need to expand that dose by 1000% to reach the optimal dose. This is where a biophelia counter can come it and help people reach for more biophelia time in their lives.

 

Understand and fulfill international data security and protection requirements, and interface with regulators.

 

 

 

Essential Tasks:

At a high level, the following tasks will need to be performed:

 

Serve as the Scrum Master for project; will be both technical and non-functional activities managed in agile manner

Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospective, etc.

Help guide and establish Agile best practices and help implement the proper tools

Groom and maintain the backlog with the Product Owner

Assists the team in achieving their sprint goals by consistently reinforcing good Scrum principles and practices, and helping the team continuously improve.

Eliminates impediments and removes blockers by working with a wide range of stakeholders until a resolution is reached, so that the team can remain focused on achieving their objectives

 

 

Skills & Competencies:

● At least one year of Scrum Master experience leading a software development or engineering team

 

● CSM or other Agile certifications

 

● Successful experience applying Agile concepts and techniques driving projects to completion

 

● Hands on experience with Agile tools (preferred, not required)

 

 

 

If you have any questions about processes for joining CrowdDoing.world as a volunteer to support our efforts in systemic change please write to volunteerorientation@crowddoing.world""

 

""Realizing that nature is a collective benefit for the health of a city, CrowdDoing.world is working with cities worldwide to institute measurable biophelia goals. Biophelia goals include metrics such as how much time people spend in nature, frequency of parks and parks visits, and time spent in parks.

 

A biophelia counter is a concept CrowdDoing.world is developing that will aid people in tracking their biophelia, or the amount of time they spend in nature. CrowdDoing.world is partnering with local groups of volunteers to develop, test, and launch biophelia counters in each city.

 

Biophelia counters will use geo-location technology to track how often people access parks. Each biophelia counter will have a mobile app that tracks how often a person accesses a park, and for how long. The biophelia counter app will also track whether the person visited a park before or after going to work, or after coming home.

 

Biophelia counters will track goals set by cities for biophelia, so people will know that they are getting the proper amount of biophelia, and time in nature. CrowdDoing.world will be collaborating with cities to set goals, so biophelia counters will help people track their progress in achieving their goals.

 

A biophelia counter will allow people to set goals for themselves, and to track their progress in achieving their biophelia goals. There are hundreds of diseases that can be prevented through access to nature. By tracking biophelia, biophelia counters help people achieve the goal of biophelia.

With this project, CrowdDoing.world wants to create a community of volunteers around biophelia. Through this project, people can participate in the creation of the first global network of biophelia counters. By using biophelia counters, people can better understand their health and wellness, and set healthy goals.

 

If you'd like to join our Nature Counter team in CrowdDoing.world working to build the first global network of biophelia counters, please fill out this form, and follow the instructions.

 

Explore an interactive urban nature system as an Explorer. While in the forest, you will learn about biodiversity, the impacts of climate change, how to communicate and engage with others, and how to save our biodiversity via responding to scientific concerns about climate change. You will explore the forest and its significance to global biodiversity.

Through the lens of urban ecology, we explore the relationship between human development and the natural environment. We seek to understand the complex interplay of urbanization, biodiversity and ecosystem services, which underlie the conservation of wildlife, and ecotherapy and forest therapy. We also want to generate innovative ideas for how forests can be incorporated into urban environments in order to maximize their ecological value and human psychological and physiological benefits.

Our program is designed to give you an introduction to the field of Urban Ecology, forest therapy, attention restoration theory, and nature deficit disorder reduction. Nature Counter users will learn from the app and the course a deeper understanding of the importance of the natural world, as well as new perspective on the urban environment and our impact on it and its impacts on people. In addition, participants will have a greater appreciation for forests, trees, and other species of plants and animals, and for the vital role that they play in sustaining life on Earth, and helping to improve human mental health, productivity, and many dimensions of wellbeing.


 

The goal is to democratize nature immersion as a self-care tool for everyone in every field of practice.

Nature counters are a first step towards that goal - but they cannot replace personal engagement with nature. They are not substitutes for the human touch of nature immersion.

We are now ready to take the next steps towards democratizing nature immersion as a self-care tool for every field of practice. We envision future forest therapy programs that teach you how to build your own nature counter. It will be possible to share experience with fellow nature enthusiasts, to find nature based events near you, and to build a network of like minded nature enthusiasts. The idea is to create a system where you can easily engage with nature and nature immersion wherever you are, whenever you want.

 

As part of the process, a set of best practices developed for the private sector can be used to standardize nature immersion in the public sector.

In addition, a new field of research into nature immersion and its impacts on organizations' culture, operations, and bottom line.

How would the world change if we were able to assure every person in every organization in the world has the opportunity to engage in the kind of personal, hands-on, nature immersion experiences that are proven to improve their health, reduce their stress, and increase their productivity?

Imagine a future where every person in all sorts of jobs gets an optimal dose of nature.

This is our vision of a world where everyone has access to nature. Where a day in nature is a normal part of any job.