COVID-19 has inexorably changed the way we view density and urbanization. CatchOn, a Finn Partners company and a leading communications and market research practice, asked 20 architects, designers, urban planners and environmentalists what we now need to focus on if we want to build more viable and healthy cities, neighborhoods and communities in the future. Their 20 reflections present dozens of ideas on the post-pandemic…
The GWI’s latest “Wellness in the Age of COVID-19” Q&A is with death experts and “dying well” activists Dr. Candi Cann, associate professor of religion, Baylor University, and Liz Eddy, CEO of Lantern, a public benefit corporation that provides a single source of guidance for navigating a death. They discuss: How COVID-19 has exposed what is broken in our culture around grief and dying: from…
Employment is one of the most important determinants of wellbeing, and conversely, unemployment has a strong deleterious effect on our wellbeing (studies examining mental health during lockdown conclude that those forced to leave paid work suffered much more than those who remained fully or partially employed or were furloughed). The repercussions of unemployment go well beyond the loss of income. It affects not only the…
COVID-19’s Legacy: This Is How to Get the ‘Great Reset’ Right – World Economic Forum, July 14, 2020 GWI partner economist Thierry Malleret and Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, have written a new book, COVID-19: The Great Reset, a guide for anyone who wants to understand how the virus has disrupted our social and economic systems and what changes will…
Wellness Tourism Initiative Collaboration: New Research: What Will the Future of Wellness Tourism Look Like? Katherine Droga, founder Droga & Co, Adam Glickman, principal of Parallax Wellness + Hospitality, and the Wellness Tourism Initiative prepared an hour of insights and inspiration. During this Zoom call the team shared actionable results from their not yet released, global survey, which took the temperature of over 2,000…
A major new study from the NIH (10,123 US teens) is the first to show that exposure to outdoor, artificial light at night negatively impacts teens’ mental health and sleep. Teens exposed to higher levels of nighttime light are more likely to have a mood disorder (including anxiety and bipolar disorder and phobias). This adds to the evidence that disruptions to circadian rhythms contribute to…
