Nice overview of this topic via @NewYorker & Jill Lepore.
We're evolutionarily mismatched to many aspects of our indoor environments so it's important to figure out how to make the indoors mimic the outdoors relative to it's impact on us as well... 1/
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as spend more time outdoors.
And quantifying those impacts, as @j_g_allen & @cleantechcities lay out in detail in their book, Healthy Buildings, can effectively help drive decision-making to give us healthier built environments.
@BranchPattern has... 3/
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been doing this at the individual project level for more than a decade to help facilitate healthier decision-making during the design/construction process. And the design/operational strategies that result in healthier buildings typically are aligned w/ other sustainable... 4/
strategies that reduce a building's overall carbon footprint. The health and productivity impacts also tend to vastly outweigh other operational cost impacts, like energy costs. Therefore it's critical to explicitly include them in any life cycle cost analyses impacting... 5/
the decisions being made. It moves us in the right direction not only w/ regards to health and wellbeing, but also with respect to building emissions and climate change (though that also has a health/wellbeing component, just at a larger scale). 6/
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