Jessica Green: Can We Design Buildings Encouraging Healthy Microbial Environments?
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March 25, 2013
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Our bodies and homes are covered in microbes - some good for us, some bad for us, and some just along for the ride. As we learn more about the germs and microbes who share our living spaces, TED Fellow Jessica Green asks: Can we design buildings that encourage happy, healthy microbial environments?

Jessica Green wants people to understand the important role microbes play in every facet of our lives: climate change, building ecosystems, human health, even roller derby - using nontraditional tools like art, animation and film to help people visualize the invisible world.

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