UO research gets Discover magazine feature
By Christina Williams
Sustainable Business Oregon editor
University of Oregon's Jessica Green, a scientist with an expertise in the microbes that live inside buildings, took a leading role in a feature on the topic published in the latest issue of Discover magazine.
The article, included in the July/August issue (the story isn't included on the magazine's website), features Green's work with the UO's Biology and the Built Environment Center.
Under the headline, "Earth's Last Unexplored Wilderness ... Is Your Livingroom," the article goes in depth on the "microbial soup" that is indoor air and the implications it holds for sustainable buildings.
"We live nearly 90 percent of our lives indoors, but we know almost nothing about that environment," Green said in the article. "We don't think about the wildlife in the air because we can’t see it. But it's here."
Green spoke at the TEDxPDX event in Portland this spring and was named a TED Fellow in 2010.
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