Moving to Green (05-21-12)
Leonard investigated the push to green workplace design using ethnographic research tools.
Leonard investigated the push to green workplace design using ethnographic research tools.
Research by Marc Berman, a post-doctoral fellow at Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute in Toronto and colleagues has linked walking in natural settings and improved memory function in people with major depression.
Kolb, Gockel, and Werth confirmed that temperature does indeed affect behavior.
PBS has released the list of the 10 influential American buildings it will profile in an upcoming series titled “10 Buildings That Changed America.”
Some individuals are more oriented toward the people in their environment and some to things.
The number of obese children in the United States has increased interest in any of their activities that burn calories.
Roenneberg and his colleagues tie discrepancies between circadian rhythms and daily responsibilities to obesity, and these circadian rhythm/daily responsibility disconnects (termed “social jetlag”) can arise through lack of exposure to natural light.
Research continues on factors that increase walking.
Researchers, lead by Christine Hoehner of Washington University in St. Louis have learned that longer car commutes are linked with poorer health on the part of commuters.
New research reiterates the important role physical gestures play in communicating information and reinforces the importance of face-to-face communication, at least until communication technology evolves to the point that gestures can be reliably shared.