We are an image culture – so what happens when our visual field is littered with billboards, cables, building sites, and actual litter? It’s called
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From melting ice caps in Antarctica and Greenland to severe droughts, which have doubled the number of wildfires in the western United States between 1984 and 2015 - climate change anxiety is rising, and so is the willingness to act on it. However, climate change concerns more than just global…
Throughout history, man has become an increasingly indoor animal. According to the EPA, the average American now spends 90% of his time indoors, breathing in a stew of airborne pollutants that scientists and the public know relatively little about. While shelters are designed to keep environmental hazards out, indoor spaces…
Instagram can tell you what’s new, what’s cool, and what’s for dinner. But can you use it to find happiness? The data analysts at HouseFresh reckon so, and we’ve processed thousands of Instagram selfies to find the happiest places in the U.S. – and those places where intense smiles are…
Most people know that air purifiers are good for their overall health and wellbeing. Of course, having cleaner air is a good thing, but is there any science to back this up? Well…there is. Quite a lot of it, in fact. There have been numerous studies on their performance that…
Monica Geller: Neat. Practical. Energetic. Biophilic? Biophilia is our innate love of nature. Biophilic design embraces the idea that our inner cave person still longs for the natural environments through which we evolved. Adapting natural shapes, materials, and principles to create “habitats for humans” may help us relax, heal, and…
“Upon my life, I believe handsome public grounds, with music, would have the happiest influence in allaying riots and debauchery, crime and secret vices,” declared landscape designer Andrew Jackson Downing in 1848. The public garden was late to the U.S. In Europe, the Italian Renaissance had ushered in a culture…
For a moment, every neighborhood radiated the glamor of a picture postcard landmark. When the first 2020 lockdown struck, a temporary bonus was the drop in air pollution. The view through our windows seemed freshly polished. Tourist attractions shone with an intensity unseen for decades. Environmentalists keenly told us that…
No matter where you are in the world, it's important to monitor the air quality. So, we've curated this list of the best apps for air quality. The quality of the air we breathe is of the utmost importance. Due to environmental factors and air pollution, the quality of the…
Cigarettes are killing our planet. We smoke 4.5 trillion cigarettes every year – enough to reach Saturn and back. But we don’t send the butts to Saturn. We crush them under our shoes. To better understand the scale of the issue, HouseFresh crunched the numbers to visualize the human-made structures…
It’s the romance of the century: the houseplant has wrapped its tendrils around humanity’s heart, and it won’t let go. The millennials started the affair. Filling their rental properties with greenery. Taking ‘shelfies’ to supplement their Instagram selfies. Then, annual gardening revenue in the US grew by 4.62% in 2018,…
You can get a real brain fog trying to decide what college to attend. There are so many variables to consider. Does your college have inspiring teachers? Impressive grades? A supportive community? How about the air quality? You want your brain to be at its best when you study. But…
Divorce. Having a baby. Getting married. Studies show that none of these are as stressful as moving home. Psychoanalyst Ronnie Greenberg calls the home “a matrix of safety”. A roof over your head, a familiar space, a payment structure that you understand (even if it’s a struggle). No matter how…