Trend Alert: Putting the 'hospital' in 'hospitality'

Trend Alert: Putting the 'hospital' in 'hospitality'

The medical spa green room in St. Dominic Hospital - Jackson, Miss.

Throughout the states hospitals are cranking up the swank with lush interior design and incredibly chic amenities.

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The 'Triple Bottom Line' for Green Healthcare

The 'Triple Bottom Line' for Green Healthcare

"Hospitals are beginning to seek systemic solutions for the systemic challenges that current policies and chronic diet-related disease have created."  - Kim Bayer, Ann Arbor News 

We love the idea of integrating local and organic foods into hospitals in striving to achieve a triple bottom line of sustainability - one that would provide "better patient care, improve population health, and reduce per capita cost" (Kim Bayer, freelance writer for The Ann Arbor News).

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On the Rise: Conscious Consumerism + Fashion Transparency

On the Rise: Conscious Consumerism + Fashion Transparency

Mohnton Knitting Mills in Pennsylvania

"Does knowing where a shirt comes from 

affect your decision to buy it?"

- Emanuella Grinberg, CNN

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