Bill Reed – författare

"The members of 7group and Bill Reed are examples writ large of the kind of leadership that is taking this idea of green building and forming it into reality, by helping change minds, building practice, and design process."—from the Foreword by S. Rick Fedrizzi President, CEO, and Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building CouncilA whole-building approach to sustainabilityThe integrative design process offers a new path to making better green building decisions and addressing complex issues that threaten living systems. In The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability, 7group's principals and integrative design pioneer Bill Reed introduce design and construction professionals to the concepts of whole building design and whole systems. With integrative thinking that reframes what sustainability means, they provide a how-to guide for architects, designers, engineers, developers, builders, and other professionals on incorporating integrative design into every phase of a project.This practical manual: Explains the philosophy and underpinnings of effective integrative design, addressing systems thinking and building and community design from a whole-living system perspectiveDetails how to implement integrative design from the discovery phase to occupancy, supported by process outlines, itemized tasks, practice examples, case studies, and real-world stories illustrating the nature of this workExplores the deeper understanding of integration that is required to transform architectural practice and our role on the planetThis book, both practical and thoughtful, will help you deliver your vision of a sustainable environment.

In a volume containing 15 original plays - including three shadow-play adaptions of Gogol, Morton and Runyon classics - the author resurrects a sadly neglected theatre genre - the shadow play combining traditional shadow techniques with normal acting to create 'full-bodied' mainstream plays.

From the early days of minstrelsy to Black Broadway, this book is the story of African American entertainment as seen through the eyes of some of its most famous as well as others of its practitioners. The book moves from the beginning of African American participation in show business up through the present age. Will Marion Cook and Billy McClain are discovered in action at the very dawn of black parity in the entertainment field; six chapters later, the young Sammy Davis, Jr., breaks through the invisible ceiling that has kept those before him "in their place." In between, the likes of Valaida Snow, Nora Holt, Billy Strayhorn, Hazel Scott, Dinah Washington, and others are found making contributions to the fight against racism both in and out of "the business."

'Are you a human being?'... a question in the ordination of monks in Theraveda Buddhism). For all those around the mother of Jimmy Massey that question had to be asked too.

If it wasn't for other human beings, he would have become the most polished and the most talented Australian. As it was, what with Australian Aborigines and Sri Lankans and all those other Australians, it was hard to keep his coconut above the waves. Nobody was waving..

What have the famous father's shocking WW1 experiences to do with today's crime and mayhem that tear his family apart? What has be done to his sons? What sort of metaphor to the-now was it when the old boy finally coughed up the bullet that almost killed him forty years before?

This is a reprint of one of the most successful award-winning plays of Bill Reed. Over the years it has been performed both on the professional and amateur stages around Australia and overseas, and additionally published in Currency Press's 'Plays of the 60s'.

Truganinni stood alone, a living relic of her race who witnessed the whole range of degradation her people suffered. As she approached her end, she had the memories of the butchering of the last male's body. She pleaded, 'Don't let them cut me up!' They still eventually did.

Cass Butcher Bunting' begins with an explosion and a cave in down a mine shaft. Three miners are trapped there; Cass, the local golden boy, Butcher, the mentally-heavy, stay-at-home product of a small mining community, and Bunting, the old-timer, the 'humpy'.