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That is the riddle that underlies a new study in the journal Scientific Reports by a team of researchers in the United States, Canada, and Australia, led by the University of Chicago psychology professor Marc Berman............
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After controlling for income, education, and age, Berman and his colleagues showed that an additional ten trees on a given block corresponded to a one-per-cent increase in how healthy nearby residents felt. To get an equivalent increase with money, youd have to give each household in that neighborhood ten thousand dollarsor make people seven years younger, Berman told me.
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The health benefits stem almost entirely from trees planted along streets and in front yards, where many people walk past them;
trees in back yards and parks dont seem to matter as much in the analysis.
Much more intriguing info at the article, well worth the read.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)tree bark.
the_sly_pig
(741 posts)Disbelievers responses were oaken....
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)as do a lot of STEM graduates.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)...on paper.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Mira
(22,380 posts)and does not surprise me one little bit. I get better and happier the minute I'm in the midst of trees.
BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)for a decade. The sound of the wind rustling leaves before a storm, or the rain hitting them. The sight of those exposed mature limbs in winter. Try living without it...brutal. i believe these findings wholeheartedly.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)The redeeming part of that apartment was the bedroom in the back with a picture window that faced out on the top of a scrub tree. Even that poor, scraggly little tree changed the whole feel of that apartment, leafy in summer and snowy in winter.
All the other windows were crammed with potted plants, anything to bring some green into my life.
Uncle Joe
(58,420 posts)Thanks for the thread, dixiegrrrrl.
ellennelle
(614 posts)did you also read michael pollen's piece - also in the new yorker - from last dec. 23? if not, you'll love it; a lot longer, but totally fascinating. ez to google; free online.
also too, where in AL are you?? i graduated from huntsville hi, and my brother lives in arab. he always believed he was the only liberal in the state!!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I am in the SW corner of the state.
The place was once described in a book as ..."Maycomb".
nuxvomica
(12,442 posts)I've been working on a sci-fi story about a post-Apocalyptic world with few humans left. They live in a climate scoured of vegetation save for ghostly, white, leafless trees that evolved similarly to the Indian Pipe flower. The sky is always cloudy in that world and the trees sustain themselves from underground fungi feeding off the corpses from a long-past global war. When my characters travel north and see real green trees and open sky for the first time, they feel dizzy at first, can't tear their eyes from the sight of gentle breezes ruffling the numberless, sunlight-dappled leaves. I've wondered whether the impact of such a sight would be so intense so I'm happy there's some research in that direction.
arikara
(5,562 posts)If you're writing about fungi, have you read Mycellium Running? It talks about how fungi can actually detoxify stuff like oil and chemical contaminations.
Lovely article about the trees dixiegrrrrl, thanks for posting!
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Throd
(7,208 posts)Tweekers of the plant world. Trees will steal your wallet and help you look for it.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Leaf it to you to come up with the best ones.
Kali
(55,019 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Rolling along a two-lane, past an old cemetery, and at a curve the oaks hang their hair in the Payne's Prairie breeze. And you could pull over and nap your way back to childhood.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)That balmy air is very lulling, I agree.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)some of whose descendants I went to school with. It's the secondary road which runs north from Micanopy, and bends around and across the River Styx, and on to the road that leads to Cross Creek. Before hunting regs got more stringent, in the 60s we pulled off the road and parked under those mossy oaks, then trudged back to the prairie and hunted snipe against the setting sun. Things which go into your memory and stay there.
I've begun to consider what final arrangements I might make, and I like the idea of crating up one's carcass and buying into a preserve in which you are buried, unmarked. Turns out, one of the earliest of these preserves is right there!
As you die out, a nature preserve is born.
Tree-Hugger
(3,370 posts)Hug trees.
Big Vincenz
(16 posts)thc