I fell down this rabbit hole about regenerative building design after seeing some absolutely mind-blowing Instagram posts from people living in homes that literally improved the land around them. 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?…
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…
My wife and I don’t travel as much as we used to – the mobility issues and my own arthritis make it more complicated than it once was. But when…
# 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…
I never thought I’d become the kind of person who gets excited about stripping wallpaper, but here we are. Last month I was helping our neighbors with their 1920s bungalow…
You know that feeling when you walk into a space and your whole body just… relaxes? I experienced this so powerfully last month when I took my daughter to a…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the difference between fixing something that’s broken and actually making it better than it was before. It’s a distinction I never really considered…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Last week, I found myself reading about something called regenerative air preheaters after running into a problem with the greenhouse I built for my wife three years ago. The heating…
I’ve been obsessing over London’s approach to bringing nature into urban spaces ever since I stumbled across an article about their “nature deficit disorder” initiatives. As someone who’s spent the…
So I’ve been following this regenerative design stuff on Instagram for a while now – you know how the algorithm works, you start with houseplant content and somehow end up…