Nature connectedness is a psychological concept that measures the closeness of an individual’s relationship with other species. Studies have found that people with higher levels of nature connectedness enjoy improved wellbeing and are more likely to act in environmentally friendly ways. Low levels of nature connectedness have been identified as one of three major underlying causes of biodiversity loss alongside inequality and the prioritisation of individual, material gains.
“There’s ways we can rethink the way we do business – bringing nature into decision-making, nature in the boardroom, and biodiversity net gain. They can start to shift the system, where nature isn’t just simply treated as a resource but as a stakeholder.” – Miles Richardson, professor of human factors and nature connectedness at University of Derby
Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most by Patrick Barkham on The Guardian website
People are capable of being very creative but only seem to tap into their potential when there is a major earthquake or something. But if people were more conscious of our place within nature, stopped abusing the Earth and put things back into it, we would have a healthier environment and society. Art is the spiritual equivalent of that purification, which is passed to us as energy – and all artists have to draw on that.
Jack DeJohnette, excerpted from Jack DeJohnette was more than a jazz drummer – his staggering range made him a superhuman force in music, by Philip Clark on The Guardian website
What if instead of taming people, we trained them to be more skillful at being wild?
Euvie Ivanova, co-founder of Future Thinkers, pictured here with co-founder Mike Gilliland
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.
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