Developing undergraduate community psychology pedagogy and research practice.

In this study two community psychology students describe their experiences in participating in different types of "green" volunteer sustainable programs. In the first scenario, Anthonie Collins describes his experiences in working with young men in a youth detention facility and how the participants discovered the intrinsic value of maintaining a vegetable community garden. In the second scenario, Jordan Seitz describes her experiences in organizing a community apple harvest at a local fruit tree orchard in Wyoming, MN.

Going "green" from gray: Providing opportunities of community development and sustainability within a correctional facilities program.

This quasi-experimental study examined the community and psychosocial benefits in the development of a "green space" environmental project (apple fruit tree orchard) among community residents and inmates in a minimum security prison in St. Paul, MN. Seventeen ( = 17) participants volunteered in the development of an apple tree orchard located on the grounds of a prison facility located in Ramsey County, MN.

Community service activities reducing hate crimes and extremism: A "green intervention" approach.

This brief review examines the topics of evolutionary psychology, community development, and human preferences towards "green space" environments as an effective intervention model to reduce ethnic conflict and violence. The term "Biophilia" is introduced to describe the innate human preference to specific types of outdoor or natural (i.e.