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Wildscape – River Clean Up

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All are welcome!

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE ANNUAL WILDSCAPE RIVER CLEANUP ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1-3pm AT MYSTERIOUS GYPSY POND, RIDGEWOOD RAIN OR SHINE!!!! IT IS ONLY FITTING WE DEDICATE THIS YEARS CLEANUP TO ‘ECO’ ED SCHWARTZ, OUR FRIEND AND SUPPORTER, WHO PLANNED AND SUPPORTED OUR FIRST CLEANUP AT GYPSY POND. HE IS GREATLY MISSED. WEAR OLD CLOTHES, OLD SHOES, LONG SLEEVES, PLEASE. GLOVES, RAKES, WADERS, BAGS ARE ALL GENEROUSLY PROVIDED BY THE VILLAGE. DIRECTIONS: EITHER: ROCK ROAD EXTENSION, JUST BEFORE GOFFLE ROAD; OR GOFFLE ROAD, LEFT TURN ONTO ROCK ROAD. THERE WILL BE SIGNS. BRING YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR FAMILY, AND JOIN US! www.ridgewoodwildscape.org : click on Events/Archives to see past photos Any questions: mandegruber@gmail.com
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New research suggests nature walks are good for your brain

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By Chris Mooney June 29 at 3:42 PM

In the past several months, a bevy of studies have added to a growing literature on the mental and physical benefits of spending time outdoors. That includes recent research showing that short micro-breaks spent looking at a nature scene have a rejuvenating effect on the brain — boosting levels of attention — and also that kids who attend schools featuring more greenery fare better on cognitive tests.

And Monday, yet another addition to the literature arrived — but this time with an added twist. It’s a cognitive neuroscience study, meaning not only that benefits from a nature experience were captured in an experiment, but also that their apparent neural signature was observed through brain scans.

The paper, by Stanford’s Gregory Bratman and several colleagues from the United States and Sweden, was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In it, 38 individuals who lived in urban areas, and who had “no history of mental disorder,” were divided into two groups — and asked to take a walk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/06/29/fixating-or-brooding-on-things-take-a-walk-in-the-woods-for-real/