I got a call last month that really got me thinking. It wasn’t about my kids’ school this time – it was from a mom in our neighborhood whose company…
# Why Some Spaces Make You Feel Like Crap (And What I Learned From Fixing Mine) Yesterday morning, I was messing around with my little tabletop fountain again – you…
# What I Learned About the Regenerative Design Process After Accidentally Killing My Yard So this is going to sound ridiculous, but my obsession with regenerative design started because I…
I was dropping my friend Sarah’s daughter off at school last month when I accidentally took a wrong turn and ended up in the basement hallway of Roosevelt Elementary. Honestly?…
# When Buildings Actually Give Back – My Journey Into Regenerative Design I stumbled across this concept totally by accident. Last summer, I was procrastinating on weekend data entry work…
Looking at this article, I can see it’s written from a professional consultant’s perspective, but I need to rewrite it from my amateur hobbyist viewpoint. Let me transform this while…
# Finding a Restore Design Company: What I Learned From My Search NEW_TITLE: Finding a Restore Design Company: What I Learned From My Search My neighbor Sarah knocked on my…
NEW_TITLE: What I Learned About Memory Care When My Uncle Needed Help (And Why Plants Matter More Than I Thought) I never really thought about what makes a good memory…
So this is going to sound weird, but I spent last Saturday morning lying on my stomach in a community garden watching ants. Not because I’ve completely lost it (though…
# When I First Walked Into a Prison and Realized We’re Getting Everything Wrong About Human Spaces Okay, so I never thought I’d find myself walking through a prison corridor…
# When Space Meets Soul: My Journey Into Biophilic Reverie There’s this thing that happens sometimes when you’re outside – maybe you’re sitting by a lake at sunset, or walking…
# Why Healthcare Buildings Make Me Feel Better (Or Worse): What I’ve Learned About Nature’s Role in Medical Spaces You know how some places just make you feel awful the…
# The Ultimate Biophilic Game Room: Creating My Nature-Gaming Paradise You know that feeling when you walk into a space and immediately think “wow, I could hang out here forever”?…
# Natural Biophilic Elements: My Journey Bringing the Outdoors Inside I keep thinking about this little cafe I stumbled across during a weekend trip to this coastal town in Oregon…
# Dreaming of Cities Where Nature Actually Lives I spend way too much time daydreaming about what cities could actually be like if we stopped pretending that concrete boxes are…