Sustainable Cooling in Gardens
Appropriately designed gardens should be considered as an alternative to home air conditioning.
Appropriately designed gardens should be considered as an alternative to home air conditioning.
Wild nature is not the only place for restoration. Many diverse places can provide that benefit.
More often than not, the outdoor environment of a senior ‘retirement’ community is ignored and people focus on the attributes of a building's interior. However, the activities that can be offered on the outside of a building are almost limitless, constrained only by the imagination, and not by a person's age.
Kenneth Helphand presents case studies of unlikely gardens in Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime.
Schoolyard gardens can promote healthy eating by adolescents.
The ability of elderly people to concentrate is improved by visits outdoors, although visits outdoors do not seem to influence blood pressure or heart rates.
Neuroscientists trying to explain the popularity of the 500-year-old Ryoanji Temple Rock Garden in Kyoto, a UNESCO world heritage cultural property, have determined that the spaces between the rocks and moss in the garden create a fractal tree shape that is subconsciously pleasing to observers.
A well-designed space can please many people—sometimes even those for whom the design was not originally created. This is the case for the 4-H children’s garden at Michigan State University.