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Signo Uddenberg
- Mar 17
- 1 min
Step Inside of Science...like really!
The New York Times has been running some really cool science stories this year, and a recent one on the benefits of fresh air ventilation in classrooms got their Virtual Reality (VR) treatment! Check it out here Scroll to the bottom and you'll see a QR code to try out. At MKThink, we're constantly measuring our environments to understand how they affect our behaviors and performance. We're both conducting our own research and leveraging the very good research being done aroun
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Lila Edwards
- Feb 5
- 2 min
Making Hybrid Minds
Once upon a time, there was a pandemic, and the children stayed inside. With stay-at-home orders and school closures, contemporary childhood is not the same. Playgrounds are taped off, and many parks around the country are closed. Coronavirus is a generation-defining moment, and experts are already considering the term “Gen C” for those born during this time. Schools are adapting to parameters like social distancing, as set forth by the Center for Disease Control and Preventi
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M.R. Miller, FAIA
- Feb 3
- 1 min
An Update: Successful Higher Ed Covid-19 Response From "The Atlantic"
Pleased to highlight this informative article from The Atlantic, written by Aaron E. Carroll, Professor of Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine. Prepared by a teaching physician, the piece highlights positive outcomes achieved through a combination of applying scientific knowledge and thoughtful planning, procedures, infrastructure redeployment, and proximity detection. Most importantly, it speaks to applying learnings to continually improve the health of the c
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Cristina Greavu
- Feb 1
- 2 min
The healthy achievements of Emeryville Center of Community Life
ECCL was awarded the 2017-2018 ULI Global Award for Excellence Winner. Emeryville Center of Community Life (ECCL) consolidates Emeryville California's schools with community and family services, arts and recreation into one site, one locus of vision for a healthier community. It is a place of synergies and rich community connections, the kind that make communities vibrant, connected and healthy. Here the community welcome center and senior lounge, at times hosts community eve
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Cristina Greavu, Ashley Wells
- Feb 1
- 1 min
Outdoor Learning for the Complete Child - Hillbrook School
Hillbrook School was founded in 1933 on the belief that the environment rather than genetics raises the child. While working on a campus strategy and masterplan effort, MKThink engaged the school community in exploring healthy outdoor learning potential to reinforce the school’s pedagogy, while helping keep the school’s heavily regulated footprint from growing. In collaboration with our team, the school implemented multiple tactical outdoor projects, including: - a new outdoo
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Cristina Greavu
- Feb 1
- 2 min
The Y: Gotta Know: Healthy Response to Toxic Wildfire
Sample image of the AirAngel dashboard shows the “target” condition in green (healthy for everyone), “boundary” condition in yellow (sensitive populations are more likely to feel discomfort) and “amiss” condition in red (exertion and prolonged exposure will cause significant discomfort). Indoor and outdoor environments are being measured at select locations. Chief Operating Officer at the Y of San Francisco Jamie Bruning-Miles faced a major challenge during the wildfire seaso
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Marijke Smit, Gavin D'Souza
- Feb 1
- 2 min
Covid 19 Response: Success in Action - North Monterey County
When North Monterey County Unified School District (NMCUSD) was forced to suspend its in-person learning along with the rest of the California in the Spring of 2020, 4,765 students, the kids of migrant workers, 38% of them homeless and foster youth, were suddenly cut off from school and the essential services they relied upon for their daily survival -- access to breakfast and lunch, family services, internet, or just a place to stay during the day. Understaffed and overwhel
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Christine Koroki
- Jan 30
- 2 min
Comfortable Places for Learning: A Hawaii Story
It is the end of lunch recess and students are finding their way back into classrooms at James B. Campbell High School in Ewa Beach, Hawai‘i. They pass through a lush courtyard covered by a large breathable shading structure that cools the air before it enters the classrooms. The recent addition of the shade structure has transformed the courtyard, sparking a new garden project that features native plants. Lessons can be seen taking place there at times. In the classrooms the
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Mark R. Miller
- Jan 30
- 1 min
What? Why?
You may notice me hanging out around San Francisco’s during the latest COVID-19 surge. I have been at the San Francisco Zoo, Stanford University, and the “Y” (YMCA) of San Francisco. Currently I am visiting a sample of Safe Streets San Francisco, and am also fortunate to have a sibling currently visiting O‘ahu and helping out there. I am the Air Angel, an experimental test rig whose role is to help stand sentry to provide insights to protect the human health of our public spa
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Signo Uddenberg
- Jan 25
- 1 min
Going Back to the Office: Embracing "Kick-Ass!"
Linkedin recently published 20 Big Ideas that will shape the world in 2021. One of those ideas was that in order for people to go back to the physical workplace, those places need to be "kick-ass"! - We believe that they need to be safe too, but Kick-Ass gets me motivated. They interviewed Brittney Van Matre Nike's director of workplace strategy and operations and she had the following to say: "...companies would be wise to entice people with either “a kickass headquarters w
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Signo Uddenberg
- Jan 25
- 4 min
Keeping People in Their Homes: Fannie Mae's National Energy Efficiency Research
Fannie Mae has been looking for innovative ways to keep people in their homes. From educational programs to homeowner friendly financial products and low-interest loans, they have been aggressively looking for ways to help homeowners navigate the sometimes turbulent financial waters. In the last few years those programs have begun to look at energy efficiency as one way to reduce a homeowner's monthly financial burden. And in 2018, in partnership with MKThink and Google, they
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Signo Uddenberg
- Jan 25
- 1 min
Why Embed in a Philippine desert Forward Operating Base?
Because Saving Realized Energy Saves Lives: A study between 2006-2009 estimated that 1 in 9 casualties in the war in Afghanistan occurred during refueling missions to forward operating bases. Since the results were published the US Navy has led a concerted effort to reduce energy use on forwarded operating bases as well as to generate more energy onsite. As part of that effort, our team was engaged to investigate the actual energy use at these bases and the conditions that i
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