One Nature Challenge

Want to feel healthier, happier and calmer?

Add a daily dose of nature to your routine.

Most of us spend too much time inside in front of screens and too little time outdoors. It’s time to fall (back) in love with nature! Take the One Nature Challenge! Kick-start a nature habit that lasts all year — spend 30 minutes a day in the great outdoors for 30 consecutive days.

The goal is simple: reconnect humans with nature for the sake of their health and well-being.

Start today. Join us in taking the One Nature Challenge, so we can reap nature’s benefits together.

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YOU + NATURE

A growing chorus of scientists and researchers agree: time spent in nature makes us happier, healthier and calmer. It increases creativity and lowers risk of heart attacks. It even makes us nicer and more empathetic, with more meaningful relationships and increased community involvement.

Evidence shows that being regularly immersed in a natural setting, such as a park, wetland or woodlot, boosts immunity and reduces blood pressure, anxiety and stress. Simply having a view of nature leads to faster patient recovery times in hospitals and higher job satisfaction and increased concentration in office workers. Outdoor exercise increases energy levels and reduces anger, depression and obesity.

For children, studies show that time outdoors, especially unstructured time in natural settings, can increase curiosity, creativity and problem-solving ability. It also improves physical fitness and coordination and reduces symptoms associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. It can even reduce the likelihood of needing glasses for near-sightedness.

Studies also demonstrate that nature can have profound effects on entire neighbourhoods or communities by improving residents’ job and life satisfaction and aiding community cohesion and identity. It can even reduce violence and bridge the gap in health between high- and low-income communities.

Given this amazing array of benefits and our increasing urbanization and isolation from nature, it’s essential that we reframe our traditional view of nature as a place for leisure and sport to one that emphasizes a full range of physical, mental and social health benefits.