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August 10, 2025 Health & Wellbeing Workplace & Productivity

How Nature-Focused Spaces Changed How I Think About Kids’ Learning (And Why Museums Are Missing the Point)

I never used to pay much attention to how museum spaces were designed until I started taking my kids to them regularly. Before parenthood, I’d walk through exhibits focused mainly…

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August 10, 2025 Health & Wellbeing Workplace & Productivity

What I’ve Learned About Wellness Centers That Actually Connect You to Nature

My wife and I have visited our share of wellness centers over the past few years, partly for her physical therapy needs after her stroke, partly because we’re both interested…

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August 10, 2025 Biophilic Design Basics Health & Wellbeing Spaces & Buildings

How Cities Are Bringing Nature Back – What I’ve Learned from Visiting Biophilic Cities with My Kids

When I first heard the term “biophilic city,” I had no idea what it meant. But after watching my kids respond so differently to various environments – thriving in some…

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August 10, 2025 Biophilic Design Basics Health & Wellbeing Home & Residential Spaces & Buildings Workplace & Productivity

Making Tiny Urban Spaces Feel Less Soul-Crushing: What I’ve Learned About Bringing Nature Into the City

Okay, so I’ve been thinking a lot about fabrics lately, which is honestly not something I expected to care about when I first moved to this tiny studio. But after…

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August 8, 2025 Biophilic Design Basics Workplace & Productivity

Actually Measuring What Works: My Journey Testing Biophilic Workspaces (With Real Data)

Look, I’ll be honest – when I first started getting obsessed with workspace optimization and biophilic design elements, I had no idea how to actually measure whether any of this…

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August 6, 2025 Biophilic Design Basics Health & Wellbeing

Biophilic Design and Indoor Air Quality

# Why Your Living Space Might Be Making You Sick (And How Plants Can Actually Fix It) I used to think my constant morning stuffiness was just Seattle allergies. You…

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August 1, 2025 Biophilic Design Basics Home & Residential

Biophilic Design for Tiny Apartments: What I Learned From Desperate Pandemic Plant Parenting

So here’s the thing – I used to think “biophilic design” was just fancy Instagram speak for “having a lot of plants.” Like, cool, you’ve got money for fiddle leaf…

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July 30, 2025 Biophilic Design Basics Health & Wellbeing Home & Residential Spaces & Buildings Workplace & Productivity

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…

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July 28, 2025 Health & Wellbeing Home & Residential

What I’ve Learned About Making Homes Work Better for Grandkids on the Autism Spectrum

A couple years ago, our youngest daughter asked if she could bring her eight-year-old son over for dinner more often. He’d been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder the year before,…

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July 23, 2025 Health & Wellbeing Home & Residential

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…

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July 14, 2025 Home & Residential

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…

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July 11, 2025 Home & Residential

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…

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July 9, 2025 Biophilic Design Basics

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…

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July 7, 2025 Health & Wellbeing

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…

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July 4, 2025 Home & Residential Workplace & Productivity

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…

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