Two UO professors are helping to organize an inaugural gathering to develop a healthy-building certification process similar to LEED, which advocates for green-building programs. Architecture Associate Professor Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg and biology Professor Jessica Green are working on the 2017 Health and Energy Consortium, which hopes to strike a balance between the greenest and healthiest technologies. "The most energy efficient building is not the healthiest [microbiome] building, because for energy efficiency, you’d turn the fresh air off and seal the building up. You wouldn’t have windows. These are not habitable places," Van Den Wymelenberg told FastCo Design.

Above: Architecture Associate Professor Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg