Green building pioneer to speak

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

 

Green building pioneer to speak

Industry legend Bill Reed, an architect and planner as well as co-founder of the LEED rating system through United States Green Building Council, will meet with students during the day  and hold a public lecture in the evening Thursday, Jan. 24. A faculty reception is set for Friday.

Reed will be addressing the landscape architecture students and green entrepreneurship students in North Ag Hall 105 from 2 - 5 p.m. Thursday. A public lecture is set for 7 p.m. Thursday in the Architecture Building followed by the "Wake Up & Be Heard" stakeholder input session designed to capture students' ideas about a residential life ecovillage housing option on campus.

A faculty reception is scheduled for Friday, Jan. 25 from 9 - 10:30 a.m. at Taylor's Dining Room in Human Sciences Building, which  allows for small group discussion about how to integrate sustainability into curriculum and how an ecovillage can be a tangible platform. No RSVP required; come-and-go.

For more information Reed, click on the following link  http://www.integrativedesign.net/biographies.htm

For information about the Provost grant to explore ecovillage as an interdisciplinary tool: http://spears.okstate.edu/creativity/files/Scope-for-Project.pdf