201 - Dr. Joseph Allen, Director of the Harvard Healthy Buildings Program, on How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick or Keep You Well

How do we go from creating buildings that are sick – to buildings that are healthy? We as humans spend 90% of our time indoors, yet we think very little about the health of our indoor environment.

Dr. Joseph Allen, director of Harvard's Healthy Buildings Program, wants to change that. He joins us on the podcast today to share the latest science – which shows that prioritizing building health can not only reduce disease transmission, but improve worker performance, lead to better mental clarity and sleep, and more.

As an Associate Professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and a renowned forensic investigator of "sick buildings," Dr. Allen is the leading expert in transforming our indoor environments with health and well-being in mind. His thought-provoking message – including how to keep your home healthy – is one you won't want to miss.

He's also the author of the new book: Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick―or Keep You Well – named a NYT and Fortune Magazine Best Book of the Year: https://healthybuildingsbook.com/

A quick note for our listeners – our fourth season is coming to a close – after over 200 hundred episodes, we are going to pause for the holidays and will be back in the spring with a new podcast format, exploring the intersection of nature, biodiversity, climate, and health. I'll be back in your feed soon with more details on this exciting new series.