August | Harvest “Clouds in the sky cover the color of summer, and the sound of leaves shows the beginning of autumn.” Beginning of Autumn – Waiting for the Harvest Into August, the heat gradually recedes, and cool breezes blow in the morning and evening. The sky is clear and bright, gradually filtering out the color of summer. The leaves of the Chinese parasol trees…
Symposium Portfolio: Curated content from leading experts in wellness real estate The Global Wellness Institute wants your wellness real estate project to succeed – and educated consumer demand is raising the bar. Learn from the experts, innovators and disruptors in this booming sector. Purchase the digital Symposium Portfolio to receive access to the insights from the Global Wellness Institute’s 1st annual Wellness Real Estate and…
New Research: Wellness Real Estate Market Doubles from 2017-2020–Reaching $275 Billion Says GWI Research Team By Beth McGroarty The Global Wellness Institute today released new research on the wellness real estate market–and it reveals incredible recent growth. The global market nearly doubled in 3 years: from $148 billion in 2017 to $275 billion in 2020. That’s 22% annual growth. The pandemic further fueled growth: from 2019-2020, wellness real…
Investing in nature gives industry and business a competitive advantage.–World Economic Forum, September 7, 2021 The case as to why investing in nature is a sensible business proposition is made here. As more and more industry leaders understand that nature and economics are inextricably linked, the next business frontier lies at the intersection of climate change and biodiversity. It will entail: (1) changing the measures of growth,…
By Thierry Malleret, economist The pandemic has exposed and exacerbated a distinct pattern of “air pollution inequity.” In the US, for example, PM2.5 exposure (fine, inhalable particles with serious health consequences) is disproportionately caused by the consumption of goods and services by white Americans but disproportionately inhaled by Black and Hispanic minorities. According to a paper published in 2019 by the US National Academy of Sciences, white Americans benefit from a major “pollution advantage”: They experience 17% less air pollution…
How the pandemic has increased the importance of all kinds of wellness for consumers has been much discussed. For the sake of proving the case of “wellness expansion,” let’s just take fitness—one of the sectors hit the hardest by the pandemic. The major fitness researcher IHRSA reported this summer that during the pandemic, 22% of all fitness facilities globally closed permanently–(and they document the market declines for every global region). But in large…
