BioBE @TEDxTalks

The BioBE Center’s preliminary findings at the Lillis Business Complex presented at TEDxPortland this year can now be viewed online via TEDxTalks.  

Is Your Office Building Trying to Kill You?

(credit: wired.com. Flickr/Andrew Dupont) The BioBE center was featured in an article on Wired, “Is Your Office Building Trying to Kill You?” Don’t panic! While we may know very little about the indoors, we are working to advance our understanding of the interaction...

Discover Mag talks with BioBE

“Earth’s Last Unexplored Wilderness: Your Very Own Home” in the July-August 2012 issue of Discover Magazine features the BioBE Center and other prominent labs leading the investigation of the indoor microbiome. Members of BioBE talk about center projects including The...

The Nature of Cities

The recently launched Nature of Cities collective blog looks fantastic.  From the contributors:  The Nature of Cities is a collective of contributors, an essay site devoted to cities as ecological spaces.  Cities are fundamentally ecological spaces. They are...