Environment

Workplace Environment

By FABRICE LECLERC

The Noise

Millions of employees around the globe are exposed to noise every day at work and all the risks noise can entail. While noise is most obviously a problem in industries such as manufacturing and construction, it can also be an issue in a wide range of other working environments, from call centers to schools, orchestra pits to bars.

The word “noise” is used for unwanted sounds, but generally for the unwanted perturbation to our normal activities, to a healthy life. Noises can be acoustic, which we can hear, or any other form of vibration (sounds, colors, and energy waves like radio, wifi, and electromagnetic waves). They interrupt all our life functions, which use natural vibrations to perform at the optimum level; noise progressively affects our immune system, our resistance, our performance, and our longevity. Like air pollution, noises can be unheard and unseen; they are mostly invisible. When someone works with a computer he is not aware of the multitudes of harmful noises that surround his life, from the electromagnetic fields generated by the batteries and the screen, to radiation and wifi fields, one is plunged into a noise which is unknown by his body and his cells, thus creating interferences, and errors of DNA replications which use the same wavelengths as wifi. The best way to control the noise is not to create it in the first place. It is like energy; the most sustainable energy is the one that we do not use.

NOISE 2.0 But modern life has been infiltrated by millions of new sources of noise, which are hard to avoid. It is not uncommon that in cities one is exposed to 10 wifi systems at the same time, even at night, a time when we should absolutely get rid of all noise sources as our body is in repair. This is why people who sleep nearby a source of noise, near the sound of an elevator, cars in the street (but also invisible noises like electromagnetic fields generated by the antennae of the guy next door, electric wires which were not turned off, the TV

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which remains on) feel tired when they wake up in the morning. Sleeping without noise is one of the most fundamental health habits to take on. The car industry understands how to implement noise-cancelling technology inside a car. Each vibration has a wave frequency, each noise as well. By producing the exact opposite frequency, the two waves combine to create silence, one canceling the effect of the other. This observation has been used for millennia; the most advanced medicines, the vibrational medicines, are using these principles to cure diseases which can also be called “body noises”, because they generate unnatural/pathogenic vibrations.

CREATING-SILENCE.COM

Creating silence is part of a luxury experience; being in a quiet, protected space in a world full of noises is rare, hence the explosion of concepts that sell isolation, refuges, and escapes from the noise. The open space, (or open-door policy, which sounds nice at the beginning) loads our space with noise by design, and is therefore an example of bad design. Cutting-edge management is addressing this with new environments, spaces, and offices that are always in contact with organic elements and with Nature. It is well-known that plants and Nature in general have a natural ability to reduce the noise, and to detox our environment. When we walk in a forest, even if we hear thousands of birds, and the volume is high, these are good sounds, not negative noise. We can feel that we heal when just walking in a forest and listening to natural sounds, breathing fresh air, free of chemical noise (pollution). Sounds of birds, sea waves, children laughing, and dolphins are often used in advanced therapies to heal or just to relax. They support our immune system and detoxification processes. New office buildings constructed near the wilderness are leading examples. Steve Jobs created the new Apple headquarters protected by a circular forest inside and outside, which will cover more than 80% of the occupied land for the project. Spanish designer business firm Selgas Cano tickles us with their racy yet low-impact federal agency. These examples are showing the way. Nestlé, Google, L’Oreal, and the millions of other companies in the world can behave the same -- it is just a matter of authentic leadership.

FOOD MAKES SOME NOISE

Noise and pathogen vibrations can also take the form of foods. Here, we are discovering a fascinating cutting-edge skill in life, which is going to revolutionize the way we think about the food we eat. When we eat something we introduce the vibrations of the molecules which compose the food into our body. These vibrations pass into our blood and reach our organs, our cells and our genes, and affect the way they function. The emergence of the nutrigenomics science is not more than what our ancestors had already understood thousands of years ago. This is why we know that “we are what we eat”. Eating a food which does not vibrate in harmony with our genes is very harmful, as it is considered to be noise (pollution) for our body, slowing it down, creating a surplus of issues and toxins at a nuclear level. If you eat these foods, exposing yourself to this noise, you create a pollution of your whole body, which weakens your

Among the first generation of realist painters, Don Eddy is one of the few who have taken his vision and unique painting process into new subject matter and a new visual arena. For the past several years he has returned to the imagery of the urban landscape, this time using New York as his prime subject. Painted in 20-30 layers of transparent acrylic over an under-painting of three colors, Eddy’s new multipanel works are “saturated“ in palette and in subject. More complex and more concentrated than his earlier works, the recent paintings offer the viewer much to experience and savor slowly. New York, or “the City” figures as the locus around which all revolves in several paintings. In “Evening Calls Sad Anteros,” New York is viewed from a-high, the cityscape becomes rooftops, a stormy, almost apocalyptic sky looms overhead, creating an elegiac air. Underneath the main panel is a predella of three images. In “Seasonal City II,” a four panel magnum opus, on which the artist worked for a year, Eddy celebrates each season.

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Paintings by Don Eddy. Courtesy of Nancy Hoffman Gallery

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"Taking a picture for me is the attempt to understand something. Understand reality, which manifests itself in the form of landscape. " says photographer Olaf Otto Becker whose return trip to Iceland in the summer of 2010 and 2011 was the search for traces of the time devoted. The works of his last trips to the same place 1999-2002 resulted in the published book Under the light of the North. This year we have Under the Nordic Light - A Journey Through Time. Temporal experience, as a stationary or constant that is mediated differently. Whether at the obvious example of social components such as the photographs of the architectural development of Iceland - which has been hit hard by the financial crisis in recent years, little changed. Or the photographs of the Icelandic landscape, the temporal evolution must submit sometimes or elsewhere seems to escape her. 01 Dyptich Öraefajökull glacier tongue (1999-2010) 02 Canyon of Jökulsá á Bru (2010) 03 Akranes Beach (2002) 04 Háifoss waterfall in the rain (2002)

Photos by Olaf Otto Becker Courtesy of Galerie f5,6

immune system and increase your risks of getting ill. “Noise” foods include refined sugars, flours, and industrial foods in general: most of the foods that we see on TV, buy in the supermarket or eat at the office! One of the most toxic, dangerous foods is the genetically modified food which, in essence, break the healthy relationship that we have with Nature, which is found with normal, i.e, organic foods. Thousands of studies today clearly establish that genetically modified foods are not only useless (they are designed only for making more profit by some world corporations like Monsanto; in defiance of our health, longevity and quality of life in general, not to address the supply of food in the world), but are very deadly, not only to us but to our environment and all living species. The American Academy of Environmental Medicine and leading doctors all over the world have thousands of scientific studies that confirm the links between the introduction of genetically modified crops and a series of very severe illnesses. Moreover it is demonstrated that genetically modified crops create a succession of toxic impacts (noises) on our environment, killing trillions of living forms each year. Guess what the majority of people working in offices eat today? These highly toxic foods! The solution of eliminating this food toxic noise is easy: get rid of them, only buy and eat organic, local foods, made with authenticity and good intentions.

BEES MEAN LIFE

Albert Einstein once said, “if the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.” 70% of the bees, which are at the base of the production of all the food we eat, have died over the past 10 years due to the introduction of new, very toxic noises such as wifi and genetically modified crops -- a phenomenon caused by man called colony collapse disorder. Noise has been introduced into our lives for lack of understanding, and, simultaneously, as part of a quest for profitability without bearing the cost nor the responsibility of the toxicity of these models. This is ground zero of management and business and the industrial dream, which results in a nightmare at every level -- from performance and economy to health, it is causing our decline as a species. It is causing the decline of most species on earth, as well as the eco systems which sustain life and, in return, of course, business. As Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, said, “there is no business to do on a dead planet.” The economy and the environment can only go hand in hand. We are responsible, each one of us, for cleaning up now and dropping the sources of the toxic noises, in the air, the water and the soil.•

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