Hacking Mental Health: 4 Important Goals
Last weekend I volunteered as a mental health mentor at the Hack Mental Health event in San Francisco. This first-of-its-kind event was buzzing with energy. […]
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4 Ways to Make Sure The Force is With You in 2018
[In case you STILL haven’t seen the movie – don’t worry, no spoilers here]. No doubt one of the most talked-about events of 2017 has […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »Design Thinking for Good Governance
Back in grad school, I wrote an National Science Foundation (NSF) proposal called Policy as Design. It was an extension of my work with the Research […]
Continue reading »5 Biomimicry Principles for Collective Intelligence
I’ve been reading my esteemed colleague Dr. Tamsin Woolley-Barker’s Teeming: How Superorganisms Work to Build Infinite Wealth in a Finite World for the past few […]
Continue reading »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 »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 »The Biomimicry of Vipassana
Recently I participated in a ten-day Vipassana Meditation Training in the California desert. It had been on my bucket list for over a decade, so I […]
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 […]
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