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November 21, 2025 Building Materials Design & Research Professional Practice

Ashley Furniture’s Green Claims: A Specs Writer’s Reality Check

My neighbor knocked on my door last Tuesday night – right during dinner, actually – asking if I’d seen Ashley Furniture’s sustainability commercial during the game. “Are they actually green…

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November 12, 2025 Workplace & Productivity

I Tracked Productivity in 12 Green Towers – Here’s What Actually Works

Last month I found myself 47 stories up in Milan’s Bosco Verticale, pressed against floor-to-ceiling windows while watching maintenance crews tend to living walls that cascade down like green waterfalls.…

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November 10, 2025 Biophilic Design Basics Spaces & Buildings Workplace & Productivity

I Analyzed Urban Biophilic Design Data and Found Something Interesting About Productivity in Cities

Three months ago, I found myself standing in what used to be a concrete plaza in downtown Portland, watching city workers install this pop-up forest installation. I know this sounds…

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November 5, 2025 Biophilic Design Basics Workplace & Productivity

I Spent Six Months Tracking India’s Biophilic Revolution – The Productivity Data Is Mind-Blowing

I was standing in a Mumbai office lobby last month with my laptop out, timing how long people spent near this massive living wall by the elevators. Sounds weird, I…

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October 31, 2025 Biophilic Design Basics Home & Residential Workplace & Productivity

I Tracked How Natural Elements Affect My Home Productivity (The Data Will Surprise You)

I’ve been tracking my productivity metrics for about five years now, but it wasn’t until I visited my colleague Sarah’s place last week that I realized I’d been missing a…

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October 28, 2025 Workplace & Productivity

I Tracked My Productivity for 3 Years – Here’s Why I’m Rethinking Everything About Workspace Design

I was staring at my productivity spreadsheet last Tuesday when I had this realization that’s been bothering me for weeks. After six years of remote work and three years of…

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October 22, 2025 Biophilic Design Basics

My Weekly Roundup of Biophilic Design Developments (Plus Some Data-Driven Takes)

I’ve been tracking biophilic design trends for the past few months—partly for my own workspace optimization research, partly because I’m genuinely curious about how quickly this stuff is moving from…

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October 10, 2025 Home & Residential Workplace & Productivity

I Tested Living Building Materials in My Home Office (And Now I’m Tracking Mushroom Walls)

I’ll admit it – when I first heard about mycelium insulation, I thought it sounded like something from a sci-fi movie. Mushroom roots that eat agricultural waste and turn into…

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October 2, 2025 Biophilic Design Basics

The UK’s Biophilic Design Boom: What I’ve Learned From Tracking This Movement for 6 Years

Back when I started optimizing my own home office, I was pretty focused on my personal productivity metrics. But spending hours reading research about natural light and plants led me…

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October 2, 2025 Spaces & Buildings Workplace & Productivity

How I’m Using Modern Tech to Track and Optimize Historical Building Restorations

Three months ago, I found myself standing in a 1920s bank lobby in Portland, watching restoration specialists carefully remove dropped ceiling tiles to reveal original coffered plasterwork that hadn’t seen…

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October 2, 2025 Spaces & Buildings

Why Green Buildings Don’t Go Far Enough: My Data-Driven Dive Into Regenerative Design

I’ve been tracking my home office productivity metrics for years now, and one pattern kept nagging at me: my best work days consistently happened when I spent time on my…

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October 2, 2025 Spaces & Buildings

I Spent Three Months Tracking Regenerative Design Data – The Results Actually Surprised Me

So I went down a bit of a research rabbit hole last quarter that started with me trying to optimize my own workspace and ended with me buried in academic…

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October 2, 2025 Biophilic Design Basics Workplace & Productivity

I Tracked My Remote Team’s Productivity Before and After Adding Nature Elements – The Data Surprised Me

My manager called me last month asking if I’d noticed anything different about our team’s performance metrics. We’re all remote, but he’d been tracking project completion rates and noticed some…

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September 23, 2025 Biophilic Design Basics Health & Wellbeing Home & Residential Spaces & Buildings Workplace & Productivity

Why I Stopped Optimizing for “Net Zero” and Started Designing for Ecosystem Recovery

I’m sitting in my home office this morning, looking at the small air quality monitor on my desk that’s showing steadily improving numbers since I installed those plants two years…

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September 8, 2025 Spaces & Buildings Workplace & Productivity

Optimizing Remote Work Vocabulary: When “Regenerative Design” Terms Get Confusing

I started tracking something weird in my productivity data recently – not my usual metrics like focus time or task completion rates, but how much confusion around workspace terminology was…

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