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From this thread "How Trees Calm Us Down": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12053272 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12053272 Japanese researcher desc
by internaut 10y ago
From this thread "How Trees Calm Us Down": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12053272 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12053272
Japanese researcher describes (with control group) the interesting affects of walking in a forest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jPNll1Ccn0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jPNll1Ccn0
Indian researcher describes side affects of indoor plants on health esp. air quality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmn7tjSNyAA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmn7tjSNyAA
I'm incorporating some of these concepts into my tiny house design e.g. a (truly ingenious design using mirrors!) terrarium and an hinoki ofuro, together with natural daylighting.
A poster called mantesso offered up this interesting paper:
Here's the original study from NASA, Interior Landscape plants for indoor air pollution abatement :
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930073077.pdf http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/1993007...