The document discusses two experiments. The first experiment aims to encourage meditation outside of formal sessions by developing a meditation app with timers and linking it to familiar behaviors like alarm clocks. The second experiment measures and ranks tree coverage around several California universities, with the University of California, Santa Cruz having the highest coverage at 47.5% and Santa Clara University the lowest at 11.1%. The tree coverage score could be adapted for other areas and used to encourage adding more green spaces.

1. Nature Score
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2. 2 Experiments
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3. 1. Encourage
Meditation Outside
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Social = accountability
From 0 minutes of meditation
to sporadic spikes of
meditation
Simpler if App with timer
would eliminate need to
open up google docs
Motivation wave
Once you start you
understand how good it
is for you
Encourage a habit
Have the timer tied to
an alarm clock ->
associate meditation
with a familiar behavior

7. 1. Measure tree coverage
around universities
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1. University of California, Santa Cruz (47.5% coverage)
2. University of California, San Diego (38.4% coverage)
3. University of California, Berkeley (32.3 % coverage)
4. Stanford University (29.3% coverage)
5. University of California, Los Angeles (20% coverage)
6. Santa Clara University (11.1 % coverage)
Nature Coverage Score for
California Universities

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Relevant information about
Greenage around universities
Score adaptable to other
areas like cities and
neighborhoods
Provide information to
universities, cities or
publications to encourage
adding additional greenage
Can be used to supplement
other ranking systems