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STORY IDEAS AND EXPERTISE
Specific Story and Speaking Engagement Topics
Writing a story or preparing a broadcast on sustainable, healthful residential or commercial design? Lyn Falk, founder and owner of Retailworks and its sustainable design division, Solterra Studios, can offer experienced insight for your piece, and is available for interviews.
Lyn is a nationally recognized expert on the following topics:
- Retail design in general
- How retail space can be designed to improve the bottom line
- The psychology of retail design
- Eco-friendly retail design
- How to arrange building interiors to enhance vital energy flow
- How to determine whether an interior environment is healthful or toxic
- How a community can incorporate eco-friendly revitalization plans
- 10 things you can do to make your home more healthful and eco-friendly
- 10 things you can do to make your commercial space more healthful, eco-friendly and profitable
In addition to the above general topics, the Healthy Style team and business associates of Solterra Studios can work with you on the following specific story topics, and are available for conferences, seminars and speaking engagements on the topics.
Creating Healthy, Eco-Friendly Interior Spaces
What questions should you ask your designer, architect, and/or builder before you begin a project? Take a comprehensive look at interior layout, materials, finishes, furnishings, lighting and maintenance. Learn how to make decisions that work for you, your family and the environment.
Eco-Home Audits – How Healthy and Sustainable is your Home and Property?
Learn how to conduct your own home and property audit. Determine your sustainable baseline and green goals. Identify areas in need of improvement.
Sustainability-101: What Any Family Can Do
What people can do to make positive changes in their everyday lives to reduce their environmental impact. Based on a real-life story of a family that has been implementing practical sustainability strategies without compromising their modern way of life.
What the Heck is Sustainability, And Why Should I Care?
A layperson's introduction to the concept of environmental sustainability with practical suggestions for how it might work on a day-to-day level.
Interior Air Quality – How Healthy is the Air in Your Home?
Find out what affects your indoor air quality. Learn how to maintain healthy indoor air 24/7.
Enhancing Vital Energy Flow
How should you site your building, design the interior, and arrange your furniture to enhance vital energy flow? What colors, sounds, aromas, lighting should be used to enhance specific activities? Learn how to pull a multitude of elements together to create an environment that will serve the predominant activity of the space.
Creating a Healthy Bedroom
We spend 1/3 of our life sleeping. Is your bedroom nurturing you or harming you?
Learn about healthy eco-alternatives in bedding materials and linens, room finishes and furnishings, lighting, and cleaning materials.
Creating an Eco-Kitchen
Is your kitchen as healthy as the food you prepare? Learn how to create an efficient, eco-kitchen that also looks beautiful.
Chemical Sensitivity – Why the Canaries Have Stopped Chirping
Understanding Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) syndrome and chemical culprits. Designing a home with as few chemicals as possible.
Eco-Friendly Construction Methods
What are the pros and cons of building with straw bale insulated concrete forms (ICFs), structural insulated panels (SIPs), aerated concrete, etc.? When and where is a green roof appropriate? Determine what type of eco-building materials is right for your project.
Sustainable Site Design – Do your Home and Landscape Elements Act as Structures Imposed on the Land, or Could They Have Grown There?
Learn about the "natural architecture" of your landscape and how the "built environment" can be designed to take advantage of or complement the surrounding habitat.
Eco-Friendly Community Revitalization
How can communities incorporate healthy, eco-friendly elements into their revitalization plans? Learn how to positively affect the health of your community – economically, socially, and ecologically, through landscaping, recycling, energy efficiency, storm water runoff control, and remodeling and new construction techniques and materials. Also learn how to build community support for green revitalization initiatives. |
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