I never really thought about transition spaces until I started trying to figure out why my kids behaved so differently in different parts of our house. You know how some…
After living in the same house for nearly four decades, you start noticing things about nature that maybe passed you by when you were younger and busier. These days, spending…
This morning I was sitting on the back deck I rebuilt two years ago – had to replace the old composite boards with real cedar after my wife complained they…
Last spring, my wife and I took our first international trip in years – a visit to our son who’s working in the Middle East. While she was content spending…
I’ll be honest – when I first stumbled across articles about companies calculating the actual financial returns on making their offices more nature-connected, my initial thought was “typical corporate approach…
I never paid much attention to school buildings when I was young – they were just places you went to learn, usually pretty sterile affairs with fluorescent lights and cinder…
Okay, so I need to be honest about something. When I first started cramming plants into my tiny, poorly-ventilated apartment, I had no idea I was accidentally working on “air…
Okay, so this is going to sound a little ridiculous, but adding a tiny tabletop fountain to my 400-square-foot studio apartment was honestly one of the best decisions I’ve made…
After eight years of modifying our home for my wife’s changing mobility needs, I’ve learned something important: the benefits of being connected to nature shouldn’t be limited to people who…
I’ve been optimizing my home workspace for about four years now, and natural light was honestly the game-changer that started it all. When I first began tracking my productivity metrics,…
You know what’s funny? Before kids, I used to think creating a connection to nature in small spaces was just about cramming in as many plants as possible. Then we…
I’ve been tracking productivity metrics in my home office for about three years now, and the data keeps showing something interesting: the biggest gains happen when technology and plants work…