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What You Can Do
There are many possible ways to enhance individual and community health by restoring the bond with nature including:
- Creating more opportunities in our everyday lives for unstructured play or time outside with family and friends
- Developing neighborhoods that encourage outdoor play for children and adults
- Discovering and telling others about “nearby nature”
- Encouraging schools to weave nature experiences into the school day and provide more time for outside unstructured play
- Including nature therapy and gardens in our community health care systems
- Exploring violence prevention strategies that facilitate nature experiences for offenders
- Preserving open space and natural landscapes in our neighborhoods as a strategy for developing healthy communities
- Creating safe routes and joining with others to walk and bicycle to school and activities
- Taking action to foster policy changes in environmental and city planning issues
- Becoming a member of the Bay Area Children in Nature Collaborative
