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Health Benefits of Open Space: Nurturing Mind, Body, and Community

The presentation explores the essential health benefits of open spaces, including enhanced executive functions like concentration, planning, and reflective thinking. Attendees will discover how access to green areas facilitates faster recovery from stress and results in better health outcomes. Open spaces promote spiritual well-being, fostering feelings of oneness and connection to what truly matters. The discussion also emphasizes the urgent need to protect urban parks and farmland amid rapid population growth and poorly planned development in the Bay Area.

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Health Benefits of Open Space: Nurturing Mind, Body, and Community

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  1. CPHAN conferenceMarch 14, 2008

  2. Health Benefits of Open Space

  3. Health Benefits of Open Space • Better “executive functions” like concentration, planning, and reflective thinking • Faster recovery from stressful events • Better health outcomes • Spiritual or ecstatic experiences, feelings of “oneness” or “wholeness,” “a sense of what really matters”

  4. Health Benefits of Open Space

  5. Urban Parks & Green Space

  6. Protecting Working Farms

  7. Looking to the Future 9,000,000 8,500,000 8,000,000 7,500,000 7,000,000 6,500,000 6,000,000 5,500,000 5,000,000 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 Bay Area Population Growth 1990 - 2030 The Bay Area will add 1.6 million people by 2030.

  8. Poorly Planned Growth Contra Costa County Suburban development

  9. Poorly Planned Growth

  10. Poorly Planned Growth

  11. Poorly Planned Growth Richard Rollins Traffic: Hwy 580: Alameda County

  12. AT RISK: Cloverdale Hills

  13. AT RISK: Vacaville Farmlands

  14. Land At Risk • Much land is protected • 1.1 million acres owned (incl. easements) by preservation groups • Much more protected by policy. 25 cities have Urban Growth Boundaries • > 400,000 acres still at risk

  15. The Greenbelt Alliance Approach INFILL: Direct new job and housing growth to already developed areas OPEN SPACE: Protect greenbelt from development threats

  16. Define Where Growth Will & Will Not Occur Greenbelt Protect the working landscape Urban growth boundary Sets a firm line City or town Invest in new growth within defined area

  17. Promoting Infill Development El Camino Real: Sunnyvale Steve Price: Urban Advantage

  18. Land At Risk • Much land is already urban • 761,000 acres • On average, only 7.8 people per urbanized acre • Many opportunities for infill and redevelopment

  19. Protecting Last Landscapes

  20. Mapping Out A Green Vision

  21. Mapping Out A Green Vision South Bay Green Vision meeting

  22. Mapping Out A Green Vision South Bay Green Vision meeting

  23. Mapping Out A Green Vision South Bay Green Vision meeting

  24. Effective Collaboration CollaborateOrganizeParticipate

  25. Protecting Last Landscapes

  26. www.greenbelt.org • Work with your local government • Volunteer • Become a member • Carey Knecht • cknecht@greenbelt.org • 4150-543-6771

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