Happy Belated Earth Day: 5 Posts You May Have Missed on Healthy Buildings

As you may know, Earth Day was this week.

To celebrate it, I was going to write a post about healthy buildings—which are buildings that don’t harm people or the planet. Then I realized I’ve already written quite a few posts on this topic recently.

In case you missed them—or want to revisit them—here they are:

1. New Study Finds Patients Care About Environmental Impact of Healthcare

Did you see the images of Earth taken from deep space by the astronauts aboard Artemis II this week? The photographs are breathtaking—our planet suspended in darkness, wrapped in a thin blue veil of atmosphere that sustains all life.

From that distance, the boundaries we tend to draw between human systems and natural systems disappear. The planet looks both vast and fragile at the same time.

It’s a perspective that reminded me that human health and planetary health are deeply intertwined. More>>>

2. Healthy Buildings Aren’t a Luxury: They’re Core to Our Health & Well-Being

Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time working with MindClick, a company that does something our industry has long needed: it delivers real ROI data on the sustainability and health impacts of interior product choices.

And the more I dig into the numbers, the more convinced I am that we have reached inflection point in healthcare and senior living design. More>>>

3. Reshaping What ESG Looks Like in Practice: A Conversation With Jill Brosig

ESG in senior living can feel like a buzzword these days—until you meet someone who actually knows how to make it meaningful. Every so often, I come across a leader who isn’t just talking about impact but is reshaping what an environmental, social, and governance framework it looks like in practice.

Jill Brosig, Senior Managing Director and Chief Impact Officer at Harrison Street, is one of those people. More>>>

4. Still Making the Case for Healthy Buildings

When Texas A&M Professor Leonard L. Berry asked me in February 2021 what topic I wanted to write about with him for an article in a special series titled “Shaping Tomorrow’s Healthcare Systems: Key Stakeholders’ Expectations and Experiences” in the Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy (JHMHP), I didn’t hesitate.

“Healthy buildings,” I told him. More>>>

5. Designing for Climate Change: A Call to Action

“Climate change is no longer a distant threat. It’s here. It’s personal. And it’s devastating.”

These words, written by mental health architect Anosha Zanjani, who lost her house in the LA fires, are part of a powerful, call-to-action piece on designing for climate change that she posted on LinkedIn titled, “Rising from the Ashes: How Architecture Must Adapt to a Burning World.” More>>>

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