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Chapter 13

Big Heart Intelligence in

Healthy Workplaces and
Sustainable Communities*

Julian Gresser
Alliances for Discovery, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Chapter Outline
How Far Have We Come? 249 Big Heart Intelligence Process 253
Big Heart Intelligence Basics 250 Example 2: Retirement Communities
Example 1: Big Heart Intelligence Linked to Universities and College
in the Design of Hospitals and Towns 254
Health Care Facilities 251 Smart Technologies with a Heart 255
Explorers Wheel: Inspiration, Evolving Buildings Within an Emerging
Conception, Design 251 New Paradigm in Global Health 256
Oxygen for Caregivers 253 References 257

In the early days of the industrial revolution Charles Dickens captured perhaps
better than any author the brutal, uncompromising, and fearful face of the
unsustainable workplace:

It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and
ashes had allowed it; but, as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and
black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall
chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for
ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that
ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of buildings full of windows
where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of
the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an
elephant in a state of melancholy madness.
Dickens (1854)

* To see the illustrated online version of this chapter please see http://alliancesfordiscovery.net/
bhi/bhi-in-sustainability/.

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