Kids who grow up around green space tend to have better mental health as adults. Researchers in Denmark followed more than 900,000 people from birth, using satellite images to measure how much green surrounded each child's home through age 10. Then they tracked their mental health into adulthood. The children who grew up with the least green space had up to 55% higher risk of developing a psychiatric disorder later in life. The link held even after accounting for income, family history, and whether kids lived in a city. And it was dose-dependent. More years near green, lower risk. The effect did not require wilderness. A neighborhood with trees or a field within walking distance was enough. We tend to file green space under nice to have. For a kid's developing mind, the research keeps pointing somewhere closer to essential.

AI shouldn’t be allowed in any political ad, sorry not sorry

Our country should probably start following rules and morals again sometime soon

Absolutely not. This destroys some of America’s most wondrous natural heritage with zero impact on immigration issues. Bad for Texas, bad for America, and entirely unnecessary.

🌳 Texas is getting a massive new state park. Texas just unveiled plans for a huge new Hill Country state park. Silver Lake State Park will span nearly 54,000 acres, making it the second largest in the state once development is complete. Read more at bit.ly/42VfzPz #texas #texasnews

Arizona wastes an extraordinary amount of water growing alfalfa in the literal desert. It's ~27% of the state's total water use. This is extremely uneconomical, and if farmers were forced to to pay anything close to the actual value of that water, it would disappear overnight.

We don't need more "fighters" as leaders. We need more builders and doers.

Looking back at history, humanity has never regretted saving a natural place, even if it was unpopular or uneconomic at the time

I know this is a crazy idea, but we should probably stop supporting candidates who are consistently immoral in their personal life. Immorality doesn't just go away once someone is elected. It intensifies.

Just absolutely backwards. Horrible for our country, horrible for our fellow citizens, horrible for our environment.

It's America last to continue putting our nation's environment last

Sent a letter to @BenjiBacker eight years ago to come visit and see our mountains, and he made good! Great to meet a man doing incredible work, and everyone else that was part of the @BrookingsInst @AEI Commission on Rural Prosperity

It is time for the United States Postal Service to ban junk mail. Unsolicited spam calls are already prohibited by the FCC. Emails are heavily regulated by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Junk mail is the majority of mail, 100 million trees per year. Enough!

Love nature - and rich or poor - you will always enjoy life's most grand treasure.

If we can't conserve our nation's natural beauty or our resources, we won't conserve our nation. It's really that simple.

In case no one told you, you own 640 million acres of public land.

The American West is running out of water. The American West is getting ravaged by wildfires. The American West is at risk — and our leaders aren't taking action. Save the American West.

Fund & maintain our nation’s beautiful public lands.

A lot of people are asking why more politicians are not like Ben Sasse. Because voters will not elect them, that’s why. They may say they care about character, but most don’t vote that way. Instead they vote party line, ideology, self-interest, or out of pique against a perceived enemy. How can we expect our leaders to embody higher levels of virtue if a majority of voters don’t make personal character a red line? It looks like we get the leaders we deserve.

The past 24 hours is exactly why we made this documentary. Young people are becoming more politically extreme at an alarming rate. Mostly driven by social media, the online echo chambers are extremely powerful and toxic. And sadly no one is getting the wake up call… yet.