Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Nature in 2025: Aid to Attention, Happiness and Well-Being

    Dec 31, 2024 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    In 2024, I started the year by writing about nature: CO2 emissions, temperatures and the optimism a lot of us felt about clean energy technologies with consistent cost declines.

  • Conservation

    Cities: Animal Acceptance and the High Cost of Nature Loss

    Jul 2, 2024 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Here, in the United States, 80% of us live in cities. If you’re in that majority, how do you feel about your wild neighbors, the animals who also live in our urban areas? It’s an important question to ask because your answer has major implications for biodiversity protections, nature conservation and urban planning.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Aging, Happiness and Access to Nature

    Apr 2, 2024 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Next week, I’ll mark another birthday. While I’m grateful for all the ones I’ve been fortunate enough to have so far, how quickly they seem to roll by now is somewhat daunting. That makes me a bit sad. In turn, that has me wondering: at what age are we our happiest?

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Green Spaces in Cities and on Coasts: They All Matter

    Nov 15, 2022 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Is there a median strip on any of your neighborhood’s roadways with a patch of greenery on it? Chances are there is. You may have hardly noticed it or think that something so small makes very little impact, other than providing a pleasing place to glance at as you drive.

  • News & More

    Nature Rx: Better Nutrition, Longer Life and Happier Days

    Sep 27, 2022 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Doctors in Scotland made headlines a few years ago when they began “prescribing nature” for their patients with a range of afflictions. That new practice was based on research that suggested that people who spent two or more hours per week in nature improved their health and well-being.