Saalt funds projects that educate and provide sustainable menstrual solutions to women around the world. At the beginning of the pandemic, when everyone was panic-buying toilet paper and diapers, I told a girlfriend that I was relieved to own a menstrual cup. It was one […]

Tye Farrow mixes up his wood and hospital design skills and adds a zipper. Kate Wagner writes a cruel but hilarious post on her McMansion Hell website titled Coronagrifting: A Design Phenomenon where she complained about “cheap mockups of COVID-related design “solutions” filling the endlessly […]

Even just one sugar-sweetened beverage a day could boost heart disease and stroke risk in women. When most people talk about sustainable living, things like driving less and reducing single-use plastic come to mind. But making healthy lifestyle choices is a significant part of the […]

She would have a lot to say about how to deal with the coronavirus. Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820 into a wealthy family, and grew up fond of mathematics and statistics. To her parents’ chagrin, at age 17 she decided to become […]

What happens to old hotel soap? One young social entrepreneur created a humanitarian and environmental nonprofit that saves, sanitizes and supplies recycled hotel soap for the developing world. When empowered young people and smart sustainability initiatives come together, some powerful stuff can happen. If you […]

This is how shipping container architecture should work. Shipping containers changed the world; because of their standard sizes and those little corner castings, they can move stuff around the world quickly and cheaply. But as we noted in an earlier post on a hospital made […]

With disinfecting and sanitizing on everyone’s mind, good old-fashioned bar soap has never been more necessary. We’ve all seen the pictures on Twitter (or experienced firsthand) the empty grocery shelves where hand soap and portable sanitizers and all kinds of disinfectant once lived. The panic-shopping […]

You can’t really ‘boost’ your immune system, but certain lifestyle decisions will make its job easier. Health is on everyone’s minds these days, and the nagging worry about how the coronavirus would affect us individually, should we be unfortunate enough to contract it. The question […]

It takes a lot of preparation, prefabrication and people. The Chinese have all of this. It’s hard to find much information about Huoshenshan Hospital, the modular marvel that was assembled in Wuhan in seven days, but it is a pretty amazing project. A lot of […]

The modern movement started as a way of dealing with tuberculosis. The same rules apply today. They are everywhere in Asia now, (this photo is a railway station in Seoul,) disinfecting everything in the hopes that it it will control the Coronavirus that started in […]