I had to Google “biophile” the first time someone used it to describe me. This was about two years ago during a productivity-focused Slack discussion where I’d shared some photos…
Last month, I read an article about a developer in Montreal who wanted to gut a beautiful Art Deco bank building rather than restore it. Got me thinking about how…
I never thought I’d be the parent who gets excited about classroom lighting, but here we are. Last month, I found myself sitting in my daughter’s third-grade classroom in Portland,…
You know what I never expected to become an expert on? Restoration design centers. But when you’re a dad trying to fix up a 1960s split-level while learning about biophilic…
So I got this weird call from my daughter’s school counselor last month. She mentioned they’d been looking into what they called “environmental factors” affecting kids with anxiety and ADHD,…
I was scrolling through one of those parenting forums at 2am last week (don’t judge – my son had strep and wasn’t sleeping), when I came across this incredible story…
I never really understood how much my workspace affected me until I started working from home during the pandemic. Like most parents, I’d cobbled together a “home office” in whatever…
You know what’s weird? Before I had kids, I never really thought about why certain spaces felt good and others felt… off. Like, I knew our old downtown condo felt…
You know that feeling when you walk into a space and your whole body just… relaxes? I experienced this so powerfully last month when I took my daughter to a…
I’ve been obsessing over London’s approach to bringing nature into urban spaces ever since I stumbled across an article about their “nature deficit disorder” initiatives. As someone who’s spent the…
I never thought I’d spend my evening reading industrial engineering papers about air pollution control systems, but here we are. It all started when I was researching air quality impacts…
So I’ve been going down this rabbit hole lately about something called regenerative design, and it’s kind of blowing my mind. It started when I was researching ways to make…
I’ll be honest – I never paid much attention to old buildings until we started looking at houses in older neighborhoods for better school districts. Most of the places we…
I never thought I’d become obsessed with spa design principles until I started connecting them to what I was learning about creating calming spaces for my kids. It started when…
I discovered Timothy Beatley’s work on biophilic cities during one of those late-night deep dives that happens when you’re trying to figure out why your kids seem so much happier…