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AU: Green roofs make happier, more productive workers

A now very famous architect once visited a cottage I was renting and said he didn't like the country; "everything looks green like a salad and I hate salad." Clearly that was before biophilia was a thing, the concept that we have an instinctive bond to other living things, and that we are healthier and happier when we are surrounded by them.

There is science, which can actually test these theories.

A new study, The role of green roof views in attention restoration and work performance led by Kate Lee of the University of Melbourne, demonstrated that participants who took a 40 second break looking at an image of a green roof performed a given task better than those who looked at an image dull and boring concrete roof.

Click here to read the complete article at www.treehugger.com.

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