October 28, 2023
Children Need More Green Time
The Toronto Star recently wrote about the need for more natural space in the city.
The literature on these benefits is now so substantial that the conversation has turned not to whether nature makes people happier and healthier, but how much is enough: what should we consider a minimum “dose”?
This question was part of what drove Jared Hanley to co-found NatureQuant, a technology company to help measure people’s exposure to nature. They created something called NatureScore, which aggregates reams of data to rate the quantity and quality of natural elements for every address in North America.
In Toronto, an address in Riverdale scored 65 out of 100. One in Rosedale scored 95. Wyatt’s address is among the lowest scoring residential addresses in the entire city: 6.7 out of 100.
“Anything below 20 is pretty nature-deficient,” says Hanley, the CEO and co-founder of NatureQuant.