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Designing our homes, workplaces, and leisure spaces in ways that consider the passage of time can boost our well-being and our mental and physical health, particularly in these key domains:

Natural and circadian lighting help your body stay in sync with your location on the Earth, which is a fancy way of saying they'll help you keep track of what time it is and reduce your stress levels, too, all while boosting your mental performance and ability to interact positively with other people. So, open your curtains as wide as the thermal power of your windows permits.

For circadian light without fancy investments, make sure that in each room of your home, there are some warmer white light bulbs and some cooler white ones. Turn on the fixtures with the warmer lights in the morning and evening and use the cooler lights during the middle part of your day.

To even more closely support natural lighting with your electrical lights, it’s great if, during times when you’re using the warmer lights, light levels are, relatively, a little dimmer; cooler lighting, when it’s turned........

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