Walk, Work & Sit with the Sit-to-Walkstation from Details

Introducing the Sit-to-Walkstation (very similar to the infamous Walkstation). The table on the Sit-to-Walkstation has been expanded to allow room for a chair as well as a treadmill (brilliant!).

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Feel great. Burn calories. It’s as easy as a walk in the park.

Energize your workday with the Sit-to-Walkstation. Just choose how you want to work — sit, stand, or walk — with the push of a button.

The Sit-to-Walkstation combines a complete, low-speed treadmill with an electric, height-adjustable worksurface, so it’s easy to add movement and burn calories as you work, whenever you want. The result: better health and more energy. Not to mention less time at the gym, and more time for what matters.

The Sit-to-Walkstation. A great way to walk toward a healthier you.

Green office furniture? No, we’re not talking about the color green (though I used to have a green filing cabinet that was very cool). In this case, we’re referring to the “green” movement – the effort of people and businesses to move towards practices that are sustainable, meaning actions that don’t destroy the ecological balance of the earth.

If you’re green-minded, office furniture is one of those areas where you have to be careful. It’s quite an investment and you want to be sure that the company you’re working with has a philosophy that embraces sustainability. Below, I’ll outline some of the key steps that office furniture suppliers can take to “go green”.

We’re proud to acknowledge that OA sponsor and furniture supplier, Steelcase Store honors each and every one of these. Throughout the design, manufacture, delivery and product lifecycle, Steelcase considers sustainability a part of their social contract.

The actions below represent a company that respects and values the environment, and they’re a great point of reference for evaluating suppliers of all sorts. I encourage you to investigate all of your business suppliers to see if they’re values are aligned with the values of you and your company.

Product Design
Green furniture should be durable and long-lasting, made from safe and sustainable materials, and easily disassembled and recycled at the end of life. In the production of green furniture, the company should manage waste and air emissions and conserve natural resources.

Materials Chemistry
The chemical makeup of office furniture and the chemicals used in the production process can be dangerous to human and environmental health. Several years ago, Steelcase worked with McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry to better understand these issues. Today, they evaluate chemicals against 19 human and environmental health criteria and are working to eliminate them in new and existing products. When looking for a green supplier, consider the efforts the company has made to understand the dangers of chemicals and reduce their use of problematic ones.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
LCA is the measurement of a product’s impact on the environment from material selection to the end of its usefulness. Green suppliers will measure this in an effort to continuously improve performance.

Recycle and Reuse
This is a two-part process that a sustainability-focused furniture supplier will take into account when choosing materials and designing products. Steelcase has actually taken it a step further with their Steelcase Environmental Partnership, where they enable customers to easily dispose of products in an environmentally friendly way through recycling, reselling, donating, and refurbishing.

Cradle to Cradle Product Certification
This certification “provides a company with a means to tangibly, credibly measure achievement in environmentally-intelligent design and helps customers purchase and specify products that are pursuing a broader definition of quality.” So, when you see products that are Cradle to Cradle certified, you can feel confident that they have been designed to meet stringent environmental standards and requirements.

Steelcase offers the following Cradle to Cradle certified products:

Leap task chair is Silver Cradle to Cradle Certified

Think, the FIRST EVER certified product is Silver Cradle to Cradle Certified

Amia task chair is Silver Cradle to Cradle Certified

Move stackable seating from Steelcase with Silver Cradle to Cradle Certification

Tour Workspace, desks by Turnstone with Cradle to Cradle Certification

Groupwork, tables and conference tables with Cradle to Cradle Certification

Republished from our friends at Office Arrow

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cobi - every part of cobi was designed to flex and adjust to your body

Steelcase received the prestiguous 2009 Red Dot Design Award for the cobi® chair, the newest edition to Steelcase collaborative seating collection. The Red Dot award, formally known as Design Innovations, is ranked amongst the largest design competitons.

cobi was designed by Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd of the London-based PearsonLloyd, in collaboration with Steelcase Design Studio. The chair’s design encourages users to move freely and minimizes fatigue by supporting a wide range of sitting postures. It features an elastomeric top edge that gives way when users drape an arm over the back of the chair (which, I’m sure we are all guilty of doing when sitting in a chair for longer periods of time).

Also, the seat pan flexes on three sides, allowing users to sit multiple ways in comfort. cobi caters to a collaborative work environment and combines aesthetics with performance.

cobi will be available to purchase on the Steelcase Store beginning in June. The armless version of cobi starts at $399 whereas cobi with arms starts at $439.

Click here for more information regarding cobi.

The Walkstation was featured on the Today Show

Check out this not so recent Today show clip about the Walkstation that I just happen to come across today. The clip discusses how Mutual of Omaha Insurance is experimenting with the Walkstation treadmill desk. 16 employees are walking and working for 2 hours per day.

One lost one full dress size; the other lost 17 lbs in 12 weeks and others have much more energy. The hope is that employees will save on healthcare costs, take less sick days and be happier.

See the video here…Walkstation on the Today Show