Belonging as a Universal Design Principle: Bioneers 2017
As a behavioral scientist, it’s always inspiring and affirming when others get to the lowest common denominator and it’s behavior change. It happened last week at […]
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Growing Buildings Using Atmospheric Carbon
My approach to helping address climate change and wellness challenges integrates behavioral sciences, design thinking, biomimicry, and meditation. In this post, I want to explore and […]
Continue reading »The Future: 5 Pillars of Biomimetic Wellness
On the heels of my last post about mindfulness, and my recently launched book, which focuses on the connections between human health, climate change, and social […]
Continue reading »Make America Think Again: Book Launch
As we celebrate Independence Day, let’s consider what that means for us. How might we liberate ourselves as Americans in this moment? Previously, we wrote about […]
Continue reading »Climate Leadership: Not a Moment to Lose
With the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, several setbacks loom for global efforts to address climate change. According to climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, these […]
Continue reading »Germany and U.S. Lead Vegan Charge
Excitingly, a recent study indicates that healthier diets could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the food production system AND the healthcare system by reducing […]
Continue reading »Mindfulness, Values, and Behavior Change
As AZENTIVE embarks on a quest to share Authentic Sun, a full spectrum plasma lighting technology, with North American customers, we are very mindful of […]
Continue reading »How to Be Happy AND Fight Climate Change
I read several articles this weekend and two were about the same solution for two seemingly very different challenges facing society: being happy, and improving climate stability. […]
Continue reading »Operationalizing Science: A Wider Audience
Building on my post about how to reinvent academia, I want to focus a bit on the constraints that make scientific research limited in its […]
Continue reading »Plant-Based Food: A Doctor’s Personal Journey
I have been a meat eater for more than sixty years. Despite my forty-year career in medicine, I was rarely exposed to plant-based medicine as a […]
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