A green and healthy schoolyard for all children?
All of a sudden it seems to have become a movement of sorts: healthy and green schoolyards. Both in grade schools and in child care there is a green wind blowing. This is not Read More
Have a chat with plants!
Can plants talk? And, better still, can we talk to plants? The answer to both questions is yes. Research is constantly teaching us more about how plants communicate, which therefore also shows us how intelligent Read More
Can playing outside really benefit kids?
Increasingly evidence is gathered about the positive influence of nature on the health and development of children. For this reason a growing number of schools in the Netherlands have decided to make their schoolyards Read More
Air quality in classrooms drastically improves with plants
The air quality in Dutch classrooms is terrible and this has a major impact on educational achievements, concentration, wellbeing and behaviour. Sufficient research has now been conducted to convincingly demonstrate how bad the quality Read More
The number of plants in classrooms is growing
The fact that air quality is very bad, particularly in schools, is luckily becoming a more well known fact. After all, this means something is now being done about it in a growing number Read More