Imagine having your office environment designed with you in mind. What a concept! Unfortunately, office buildings, factories, hospitals, warehouses and other work environments typically have the same standard blue-spectrum fluorescent tubes we’ve all come to know and hate.
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Even in the dead of winter, when it’s a gruesome -40 Celsius outside and you’re wondering when if you’ll ever see the light of day again, you know where the light at the end of the tunnel is. (It’s right above you).
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When Tracey McVicar moved back to Vancouver after living in New York City teaching in an inner city school, it was a giant career move. But she doesn’t regret a thing.
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Have you ever seen a quantum dot nanoparticle magnified? It’s like a big ball of Styrofoam covered in colourful wrinkled crepe paper.
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In Canada, there are more than 18 million employed persons. If even half of them are regularly working in offices that use that type of lighting, that’s about nine million people who are working in adverse lighting conditions.
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When you think accomplished woman, is one of the first people that come to mind Peggy Van de Plassche? If not, it should be.
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In natural environments, our bodies experience constantly changing light conditions. That variation throughout the day helps maintain our mood and is directly connected to our productivity level.
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In both Creative Destruction Lab and Annihilation, my observation is that when it came to both the accelerator and the film, the human experience plays out in Greek mythological proportions.
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“If we can put a man on the moon, surely we can create gender-equal boardrooms.”
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Meet Lauren Robinson, a modern Rosie the Riveter. It’s a title well earned. Lauren is an entrepreneur who is well recognized in the Canadian tech and innovation field, through her various contributions to various boards and other national initiatives.
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Meet Nicole LeBlanc, a local entrepreneur that has so many accomplishments knocked off her list and has made such a difference that she rivals Mother Teresa herself.
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Canada’s sustainability goals are becoming more and more active, with even Vancouver trying to become the greenest city by 2020. But when it comes to eco-sustainability in the finance world, Michelle Scarborough is leading the way.
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