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National Caucus of Environmental Legislators - Outdoors as a Health Solution Briefing Book

18 Jul 2024

States are championing the outdoors as a health solution and seeking to make outdoor access more equitable across holistic health models, physical activity, mental wellbeing, school and schoolyard access, childhood wellbeing, greener neighborhoods, outdoor careers, and a safer outdoors. [...] B.3020 (See SEC 20.135 and SEC 20.610) important safety and access benefits for humans, appropriates over $182 million for the design but excessive outdoor light impacts both human and and construction of a multi-agency One Health wildlife circadian rhythms, behaviors, and mental Laboratory Campus, creating collaborative and health. [...] State Land As a Healthcare Resource: The New York Extreme Heat and Outdoor Rx Act (A.8094A) requires a review of veterans’ Mental Health abilities to access state parks, lands, and facilities, Emergency room visits for mental health care especially for outdoor therapies. [...] B.2138 would promote outdoor learning access and equity by directing the parks commission to consider outdoor learning uses for new infrastructure and coordinate with public schools and outdoor education program providers on outdoor education opportunities in state parks. [...] R.30 would request for the create and maintain school gardens, and also required the gardens Department of Education to offer to support learning and/or teaching.
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16
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United States of America

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