Bill Caplan

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With a passion for people-friendly building design, an engineer's understanding of sustainability and a 34-year career in high-technology, Bill Caplan’s books address the built environment from a human and environmental perspective. A sober look at our efforts to contain global warming and the public's self-delusion with “green” and “sustainable” living inspired his writing Thwart Climate Change Now, published by the Environmental Law Institute (2021). Buildings Are for People, a holistic approach to designing sustainable user- and community-friendly buildings published in 2016. Contrast 21c: People & Places followed in 2018, a photographic essay about people and places in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam highlighting disparities between rural a ...more

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