Maureen K. Calamia
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Maureen works with commercial and residential clients to create spaces to enhance and maintain well-being -- through working with new structures, renovations, or just looking for low-cost solutions to enhance their current space. She uses concepts of environmental psychology and biophilia in her work to inspire balance and joy by re-establishing a connection to the nature. She is currently writing a book on the Human-Nature Connection. Faculty of the Feng Shui Certificate Training program at the Metropolitan Institute of Design, Syosset, NY. Author and lecturer. Board member of the International Feng Shui Guild and Sweetbriar Nature Center, Smithtown, NY. Call her for a free assessment of your project. Certified Feng Shui and Building Biology Practitioner.

Blog Entries by Maureen K. Calamia

What the City Could Be Doing to a Child's Psyche

Posted September 17, 2011 | 13:07:00 (EST)

Me and nature? Let's just say that I had to work for the relationship. Growing up on Long Island, NY in the 1970s, I attended a private elementary school made of cinder block construction. Our "playground" was an ugly asphalt parking lot adjacent to a small wooded area of about...

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Why Plants Make Us Feel Good

Posted August 4, 2011 | 09:32:00 (EST)

Plants make us feel good. In fact, other elements of the natural world do also. Why is that?

In a word, it's "biophilia." A term coined by social psychologist Erich Fromm in the 1960s, biophilia is our biologically-inherited need to commune with nature. Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson,...

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