Biophilic Design in Corrections Facilities
# 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…
Making Nature Accessible for Everyone: What I’ve Learned About Inclusive Garden Design
After my wife’s stroke eight years ago, I learned firsthand how design choices that seem minor can create major barriers for people with mobility or sensory challenges. We had to…
How I Learned Plants Actually Help You Breathe Better (And Why It Matters More As We Age)
I never paid much attention to indoor air quality until my wife’s health problems started getting worse. After her stroke, she developed respiratory issues that seemed to flare up more…
When Your Phone Is Watering Your Plants Better Than You Are: Tech + Nature in Tiny Spaces
So I’m sitting in my 400-square-foot cave of an apartment last week, watching my phone send me notifications that my plants need water while simultaneously adjusting my grow lights based…
What I’ve Learned About Creating Healing Spaces for Women’s Health – From My Wife’s Recovery to Helping New Families
When my wife was recovering from her stroke eight years ago, I started noticing things I’d never paid attention to before. How the quality of light in a room affected…
I Tracked How Natural Elements Can Actually Boost Local Economies – The Millfield Data
I wasn’t expecting to spend last autumn analyzing the economics of struggling communities, but that’s exactly what happened when I read about a small manufacturing town called Millfield. As someone…
Does Having Plants Actually Make You Smarter? I Tested My Brain Function in Different Spaces
Okay, so this is going to sound kind of nerdy, but I’ve become obsessed with whether my plant collection actually makes me think better. Like, beyond just feeling less depressed…
What I Learned About Making My Tiny Apartment Work for Whatever Climate Change Throws at Us
Okay so this is going to sound dramatic but bear with me – last February when that polar vortex hit Chicago and knocked out power for three days, I had…
How the Pandemic Made My Tiny Apartment (and Everyone Else’s) About Finding Nature Indoors
I’ll never forget the moment I realized COVID had completely changed how we think about our living spaces – and it wasn’t during those endless lockdown days in my 400-square-foot…
Why Plants and Natural Light Actually Matter for Kids’ Mental Health (From Someone Who Learned This the Hard Way)
Okay, so I’m not a therapist or anything, but I’ve been going down this rabbit hole about how plants and natural light actually affect mental health, especially for kids and…
I Accidentally Fell in Love with Nature’s Secret Design Algorithms (And You Should Too)
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…
How Modern Biophilic Design Finally Made Contemporary Spaces Feel Like Home
You know that moment when you walk into a space and suddenly understand what you’ve been missing? I had that experience about two years ago when I was researching childcare…
Testing Nature-Based Workspace Design: What I’ve Learned from Bringing Biophilic Principles to My Home Office and Beyond
Working from home for six years has taught me a lot about optimizing my environment for productivity, but I’ll be honest – it took me way too long to figure…
Living Walls Forty Stories Up: Why Some High-Rise Buildings Are Actually Growing Gardens (And What That Means for the Rest of Us)
I saw this photo on Instagram a few months ago – someone had posted a picture from what looked like a hotel room, but instead of looking out at the…
Understanding the Science: How Biophilic Design Actually Works
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