Reconnecting with nature 'triggers' eco-actions

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People with access to green spaces are more likely to be more environmentally friendly, study says.

"The message that we want to get out is that reconnecting with nature may promote sustainable behaviour," explained co-author Ian Alcock from the European Centre for Environment and Human Health at the University of Exeter.Dr Alcock explained that previous studies had highlighted a link that if people had more connections to nature, they were more likely to make more green choices.

"What we wanted to do was to test that idea on a large scale, so we took a large nationally representative sample of the population of England. "People who made more nature visits were more likely to engage in recycling and more likely to engage in green travel and were more likely to engage in environmental volunteering.

 

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it does mean, no money after brexit, go fo a walk....

You mean they went outside?

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