Technology is the use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes or applications, whether in industry or in our everyday lives. Clean technologies — also known sometimes as green tech — reduce the negative effects that our post-industrial society has on the planet and its ecosystems, including human life.
Instead of restricting children to built urban structures like pavement, tile, and gravel — which have a different yet still positive role in brain and body health — daycare workers established a lawn, planted dwarf heather and blueberries, and showed children how to care for crops in planter boxes. Researchers studied these youngest students whose play time included being immersed such a mini-forest’s greenery and undergrowth.
It makes logical sense then that, if an environment rich in living things impacts on our immunity, then a loss of biodiversity through excessive built structures and their suppression of green spaces could be at least partially responsible for the recent rise in immune-related illnesses.