Eddy's Good News: Feel Good In The Forest and regenerating land lost to the poison of human industry

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18 Jul 2024, 13:15

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio Anthems, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!

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Thursday 18th July 2024

Forestry England have started a wonderful program, called Feel Good In The Forest, probably aimed at people of our vintage but open to all.

The aim is to get anyone with mild-to-moderate health conditions, or who are looking to improve their health and well being, to meet new people and enjoy being outdoors, to get together in the wonder of nature and boost their protection to all cause mortality and just 20 mins in nature per day can do this. 

Feel Good in the Forest helps people to be more active, boost their resilience, find restoration and connection with nature, and feel empowered and included. They develop the activities with local communities meaning the offer at different sites varies. All activities are supportive, sociable and free or low-cost. Find details of your nearest Feel Good on the Forestry England website or follow the link here:

Via: forestry.enlgand.uk

I’m a huge fan of mushrooms, on so many levels. They are phenomenal, magical organisms between plants and animals, holding the whole world together in a way, and I love good news stories about them. From nutrition, to psychedelics and mental health, to how trees talk to each other and now land management as we say hello to a mycologist who is regenerating land lost to the poison of human industry.

They call them ‘brownfields’ in America. Land contaminated by industrial activity, mining, or transportation. The earth is literally poisoned and no animals or plants can live there, but 37 year old ecologist Danielle Stevenson has turned brownfields into thriving meadows full of flowers, birds and pollinators and she’s done it with fungi.

Certain mushrooms can break down toxic waste from petroleum, even nuclear waste, and turn it into carbon, which they process and feed on. They can also eat plastic, oil, even toxic chemicals from agriculture. Heavy metals, arsenic, mushrooms literally eat them for breakfast. The last site saw a 50% reduction of all pollutants within 3 months. By one year they were virtually undetectable.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org