Dr. Glen Jeffery

The other thing that we've not touched on, which is, I think, very important in the architectural world and the school world, is that all plant matter reflects infrared light.

You grab a plant out here in California where maybe it's 80 degrees, the leaf is not hot.

Why does that happen?

It's because it reflects infrared light.

Now, if you go up to a plant in...

brilliant sunlight, and you put your measuring equipment on it, the light that's being reflective is just a small reach away from what we think the smallest therapeutic dose could be.

So planting trees to reflect the infrared light that is available to you is very important.

Architects are really getting that one.

Well, okay, have an incandescent source, but have also plants on the outside that are getting sunlight because they're going to bounce the infrared back to you.

One of the physicists in our lab said,

Edward Barrett has a fantastic infrared camera and he goes around taking infrared photographs.

And we were in an office building and there was blackout blinds, very thick blinds.

And when we looked to the infrared camera, there was a small fire.

at the bottom of these curtains.

I mean, just really surprised.

And then we pulled back the curtain and there was a row of plants.

So and there is

The name completely escapes me.

There is a city in the Midwest where the authorities planted something like a thousand trees.

And what they did was they measured blood markers that were blood markers of stress, including complement related protein, which is a sign of systemic inflammation.