Stress management is now more important than ever, as research tells us that increased stress levels can negatively impact our immune response over time and increase our susceptibility to infections. If you’re feeling stressed, consider meditation, breathing exercises, yoga, short walks [...]
What do air pollution levels tell us about urban life & Covid-19 lockdowns? Read more from the team at [...]
In this New York Times article, Dr. Allen, Director of the Healthy Buildings program at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, writes about how proper ventilation, filtration and humidity can reduce the spread of pathogens like the new coronavirus. “Limiting the impact of this epidemic [...]
The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) is committed to galvanizing community efforts to address the Covid-19 pandemic. “This is a critical time to work together to accelerate conversations, education and solutions that focus on how the places where we spend our lives can enhance and [...]
We hope you are staying as safe as possible during the outbreak of Covid-19. As you hunker down at home for the long haul, here are some tips to improve sanitization and disinfection; from hand washing as self-care and UVC light to clean your phone to disinfectants meeting EPA standards and HEPA [...]
For the past several months, hundreds of bushfires near Sydney and across New South Wales have been devastating the area and choking Australian residents. As of January 8, they have destroyed over 10 million hectares of land, burned down more than 5,900 buildings, and claimed the lives of 28 [...]
Innovation in the housing industry has been driven by a range of consumer and industry trends over time. Open plan design, energy efficient products and smart home technologies have become common solutions to provide greater convenience, reduce our environmental impact and advance movability within [...]
Mindfulness is often described as an individual’s awareness of their present state. Meditation and yoga aim to support health and wellbeing and are successful strategies to engage kids and young adults in mindful practices. While still preliminary in a growing field, the following mindfulness [...]
Meet Julie – a sleep-deprived woman Julie turns the key to her front door and exhaustion hits her. After collapsing onto the lounge she turns on the television, responds to a few more work emails, and when the TV show ends, tells herself she deserves to relax and just one more episode can’t [...]
Over the past 200,000 years, we homo sapiens have spent the vast majority of our time outside as hunters and gatherers, lived in temporary structures, and would walk to wherever the best food and resources happened to be. It wasn’t until relatively recently—over the past 10,000 years—that [...]