{"id":1105,"date":"2015-09-14T01:24:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T08:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2015-09-25T12:35:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T19:35:24","slug":"the-nature-prescription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/featured\/the-nature-prescription\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nature Prescription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1106\" src=\"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trail.jpg\" alt=\"The Trail\" width=\"550\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trail.jpg 550w, https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trail-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve mentioned\u00a0several research efforts that have shown the benefits of being outdoors in nature and we&#8217;ve even noted that if nature was a drug, your doctor would prescribe it to you. \u00a0Well, Dream Tree Films and Productions with Justin Bogardus, Joseph Victorine, Jed Lazar and Cassandra Ellis have taken the idea a step farther. \u00a0They are developing a series of commercials that treat the outdoors as a prescription drug. \u00a0The idea is that nature has a marketing problem \u2013 people just aren&#8217;t getting outdoors enough. \u00a0 The series of commercials they are developing are intended to encourage people to get outdoors more.<\/p>\n<h1>Prescription Strength Nature<\/h1>\n<p>The product is <em>Prescription Strength Nature<\/em> (Terra mater), brought to you by the same people that introduced <em>Getting Outside<\/em>. \u00a0The commercial claims that\u00a0<em>Prescription Strength Nature <\/em>can reduce:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>cynicism,<\/li>\n<li>meaninglessness,<\/li>\n<li>anal retentiveness,<\/li>\n<li>murderous rage,<\/li>\n<li>consumerism and<\/li>\n<li>work induced catatonia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fortunately there are a few side effects including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>slowing down,<\/li>\n<li>quitting your job,<\/li>\n<li>seriously considering what you are doing with your life,<\/li>\n<li>experiencing spontaneous euphoria,<\/li>\n<li>taking yourself less seriously,<\/li>\n<li>remembering you have a body and<\/li>\n<li>being in a good mood for no apparent reason<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><b>Results may vary, golf is not Nature.\u00a0<\/b><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The video has almost a million views on YouTube since its debut on August 4. It has also won the best short or best short short film\u00a0with the following awards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colorado Environmental Film Festival<\/li>\n<li>Going Green Audience Awards<\/li>\n<li>Rainforest Partnership\u00a0&#8211; Films for the Forest\u00a0(Audience Choice Winner)<\/li>\n<li>Earth Port Film Festival<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is the first commercial, with more to come:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nature Rx Part 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bf5TgVRGND4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1>Learn More<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature-rx.org\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC4Us7SZ7eY0GCHXKxNwDnww\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/naturerx\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Please Share<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">#NatureRx #GetOutdoors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve mentioned\u00a0several research efforts that have shown the benefits of being outdoors in nature and we&#8217;ve even noted that if nature was a drug, your doctor would prescribe it to you. \u00a0Well, Dream Tree Films and Productions with Justin Bogardus, Joseph Victorine, Jed Lazar and Cassandra Ellis have taken the idea a step farther. \u00a0They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,22,21,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-health","category-mental","category-physical","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}