# Jessica Green: Good germs make healthy buildings

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?

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2013
- Runtime: 8 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/JessicaGreen_2013U)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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