Michael Green designs and studies flags, and is fascinated about how we use them as symbols of personal identity and pride.
Why you should listen
Michael Green uses a designer’s eye to examine the surprisingly crazy world of vexillology and why humans revere colored pieces of cloth. He is a published vexillologist, a member of the North American Vexillological Association (NAVA) and has served as a design judge on many flag redesign efforts around the US.
Green is the founder and CEO of Flags For Good, a flag company that only makes flags it believes in, and which donates a portion of each to relevant charities. Before leaving the nine-to-five to run Flags For Good full-time, he was the assistant athletic director for branding, digital and social media at Texas A&M Athletics and an adjunct professor of design thinking at Mays Business School. Prior to moving to the Athletics side of A&M, he was the manager of emerging and interactive media for Texas A&M University, creating content and helping @TAMU grow into one of the leading social media accounts in higher education.
An avid traveler, Green has now stepped foot in over 75 countries and collects flags along the way.
Michael Green’s TED Talks
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Open: The talks of TED@DestinationCanada
March 13, 2023
When we come together with open hearts and open minds, anything is possible. It was in this spirit that TED partnered with Destination Canada for a day of talks and performances featuring new ideas on living, seeing the world and reimagining our shared future. The event: TED@DestinationCanada: Open is the first event TED and Destination […]
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We the Future: Talks from TED, Skoll Foundation and United Nations Foundation
September 27, 2018
We live in contentious times. Yet behind the dismaying headlines and social-media-fueled quarrels, people around the world — millions of them — are working unrelentingly to solve problems big and small, dreaming up new ways to expand the possible and build a better world. At “We the Future,” a day of talks at the TED […]
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A portable feast: TED’s wooden pavilion
March 17, 2015
To build a 20-story building out of cement and concrete, 1,200 tons of carbon dioxide gets released; to construct the same building from wood, 3,100 tons are saved, a difference of about 900 cars taken off the road in a year. Michael Green (TED Talk: Why we should build wooden skyscrapers) builds with wood because […]
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