Ample research shows that there are many benefits to getting outside and enjoying our surroundings, no matter where we live. 1 This is so important that some researchers and therapists have written about how critical it is to prescribe nature to rewild ourselves and leave the indoors behind.

Some years ago, Landon Pollack, co-founder and Executive Director of Project ReConnect at UCLA, contacted me about his growing interest in what has come to be called "Ecological Medicine." Recently, he and many colleagues, including the Ecological Medicine Working Group, published a major academic paper in the prestigious journal Nature , " A Consensus Statement for Ecological Medicine: Moving Toward Connection-Based Medicine ." I wanted to know more about this forward-looking multidisciplinar

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