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	CENTER FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL BUILDING SYSTEMS: 35 YEARS OF SERIOUS COMMOTION The Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, established in 1975, in a non-profit education, research, and demonstration organization specializing in life cycle planning and design. Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems: 35 Years of Serious Commotion chronicles the Protocols, Policies, and Prototypes that emerged from the nation’s oldest sustainable design non-profit organization. Over 35 years, Pliny Fisk III and Gail Vittori pushed the boundaries of sustainability in the built environment and collaborated with some of the world’s preeminent thought leaders. From early work with solar water heaters in Crystal City, Texas to disaster relief building systems for small island nations, the work of CMPBS has a broad range of influence on new waves of thought and innovation.
Limited Commemorative Edition 978-0-61539-819-8, Cloth, 330 pages Download selections from the book	Purchase the book today! Signed by authors upon request! $100 plus tax and S&H* *Shipping based on media mail domestic rate, for expedited or international shipping please contact our office: center@cmpbs.org or 512.928.4786
Praise "CMPBS’s 35 Years of Serious Commotion is a magnificent oeuvre. I hope it finds many pathways into the minds and hearts of those who want to transform the world and to those who do not understand how transformable the possibilities truly are." - Paul Hawken, author of The Ecology of Commerce "An inspiring chronicle of how a small group of visionaries can change the world. A lively historical account that also signals the future for high performance, highly sustainable building." - Bill Walsh - Executive Director, Healthy Building Network "This book and the people who created it -Pliny Fisk and Gail Vittori, and thirty five years of work by them and their team, is simply a Work of Nature arriving just in time to provide the planet with the handbook it needs to survive and thrive. Bucky Fuller wrote the first Operating Manual for Planet Earth. CMPBS exceeds our prescient optimist heros’ wildest dreams. Go Planet!" - Sim Van der Ryn, President, EcoDesign Collaborative "Pliny Fisk and Gail Vittori pioneered green building design and contributed much to what we currently call sustainability. With their Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems colleagues, they continue to lead in both theory and practice. We now have a wonderful book, which chronicles the many contributions of Fisk, Vittori, and CMPBS since 1975. The scale and scope of those contributions are breathtaking. They have undertaken projects from Austin to Haiti and China and beyond to the whole planet. These amazing projects have fundamentally changed how we design with nature." - Frederick R. Steiner - Dean, University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture "This delightful book reviews 35 years of pioneering vision, research, and demonstration by the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems (CMPBS), in Austin, Texas. Through hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and descriptive text, CMPBS co-directors Pliny Fisk III and Gail Vittori tell the story of this remarkable organization." - Environmental Building Network
About the Authors Pliny Fisk III: Pliny Fisk III is Co-Director / Co-Founder of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems. He is also Signature Faculty and Fellow of Sustainable Urbanism, Health Systems Design, and the Center for Housing and Urban Development at Texas A&M University. He is a pioneer in the sustainable architecture and planning movements and a leader in local and national green building policy, creating flexible open building systems, developing innovative ecological planning methods, and pioneering regionally appropriate, sustainable materials. His work has been recognized by many national and international awards including the 1992 Earth Summit Award for the Austin Green Builder Program, the American Solar Energy Society's Passive Pioneer Award, the U.S. Green Building Council's first Sacred Tree Award for Public Sector/NGOs, and Citation of Achievement from the Mayor of Austin. Mr. Fisk previously held professorships at the University of Texas at Austin and Ball State University and distinguished visiting chairs at Mississippi State University and University of Oklahoma. Gail Vittori: Gail Vittori is Co-Director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems. She was the 2009 Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council Board of Directors and served on the USGBC Board from 2002-2009. Ms. Vittori currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Green Building Certification Institute. She is a leader in green healthcare initiatives, including Convener and Co-Coordinator of the Green Guide for Health Care and co-author of Sustainable Healthcare Architecture with Robin Guenther. Her work experience includes coordinating CMPBS’s Sustainable Design in Public Buildings Program, spearheading emerging green and affordable housing programs, and driving innovative green building and zero waste management policy initiatives. In 1989, Ms. Vittori proposed a conceptual framework for what evolved as the City of Austin’s Green Builder Program, the only U.S. program recognized at the 1992 U.N. Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and the first green building program in the world. She was featured as an Innovator: Building a Greener World in TIME Magazine and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.

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