Bill Browning & Biophilia on USGBC’s New Podcast

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Bill Browning & Biophilia on USGBC’s New Podcast

Bill sat down with Flavia Grey, a PhD candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and host of USGBC’s  new podcast, Built for Health, to talk about biophilic design. Flavia talks to Bill and Professor Peter Khan in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Human Interaction With Nature and Technological Systems (HINTS) Lab at University of Washington. They discuss their professional journeys, the benefits of interacting with nature, and ways of implementing biophilic design in our spaces. The episode, called Biophilia, aired on January 26th and is the second in the series. Listen to the full episode here.

Built for Health is a new podcast series from USGBC that explores the various impacts of our built environment on human health. Catch up on the first episode to hear Adhamina Rodriguez, Founder and CEO of AR Green Consulting, and John Spengler, PhD, Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation at the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discuss the impact of indoor air quality on our health, looking at the influence of ventilation, moisture and the off-gassing of building materials.

Rebecca is the Director of Operations at Terrapin and has a background in natural resource policy and management. She is interested in how policy helps shape our relationship to nature, and how we can work with and learn from natural systems to address human needs.