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‘Finding Ecohappiness’ Excerpt: How Your Nature Habit Can Heal Your Family & the Planet

The environmental parenting book, “Finding Ecohappiness: Fun Nature Activities to Help Your Kids Feel Happier and Calmer,” prescribes nature-based fun to improve mental health and mood in children (and parents). In our always-on, pressure-cooker culture, children are at special risk for mental health threats. From too much screen time to navigating social media to obsessing over grades and extracurricular activity […]

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Can a Plant-Based Diet Affect Your Mental Health?

Vegan diets have been praised for their variety of benefits, like lower mortality rates and less stress on the environment. The vegetables, legumes, and grains that compose vegan diets use less land and water to cultivate than animal products. And they produce less waste and greenhouse gasses than raising livestock does. In fact, a 2017 study in the journal Climatic […]

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