Chris Prelitz
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Chris Prelitz is an environmental and green building advocate and author.
Chris Prelitz lives in a net-zero solar powered home that Prelitz designed and built in Laguna Beach, California.
His book, Green Made Easy: The Everyday Guide for Transitioning to a Green Lifestyle was published by Hay House
in April, 2009.
Prelitz was one of the founders of CASBA, The California Straw Bulders Organization, a California NGO responsible for California code and DOE adoption of strawbale construction. In 1993 Prelitz built the first permitted solar powered residence in Southern California.
, an ocean and aerospace engineer and a mother of Native American
descent.
Prelitz holds a Bachelor of Arts from California State University, Fullerton, and is a graduate of Duke University's Environmental Leadership program.
His design-build firm Prelitz + Partners developed projects ranging from off-grid solar communities to the first solar-powered LEED certified auto dealership in the U.S. for Mercedes Benz.
Chris Prelitz lives in a net-zero solar powered home that Prelitz designed and built in Laguna Beach, California.
His book, Green Made Easy: The Everyday Guide for Transitioning to a Green Lifestyle was published by Hay House
Hay House
Hay House is a New Thought and Self-help publisher. It was founded in 1987 by author Louise Hay, when she self-published her books Heal Your Body and You Can Heal Your Life...
in April, 2009.
Prelitz was one of the founders of CASBA, The California Straw Bulders Organization, a California NGO responsible for California code and DOE adoption of strawbale construction. In 1993 Prelitz built the first permitted solar powered residence in Southern California.
Early life
Chris was born in 1956 in Memphis, Tennessee, the oldest of 6 siblings. Son of Paul Philip PrelitzDSRV-1 Mystic
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, an ocean and aerospace engineer and a mother of Native American
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
descent.
Prelitz holds a Bachelor of Arts from California State University, Fullerton, and is a graduate of Duke University's Environmental Leadership program.
His design-build firm Prelitz + Partners developed projects ranging from off-grid solar communities to the first solar-powered LEED certified auto dealership in the U.S. for Mercedes Benz.
Advocacy
- Prelitz chairs the City of Laguna Beach Environmental Committee and has served on environmental advisory boards at city, state, and national levels. In the early 1980s, he served on the board of Directors of the Eos Institute, publishers of Earthword, the first U.S. journal on sustainabilitySustainabilitySustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of union, an interdependent relationship and mutual responsible position with all living and non...
.
Selected Projects
- Guest host of The Discovery Channel's Greenovate July 10, 2008 http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tv/greenovate/greenovate-0711087pm.html
- Mercedes Benz, Az. Sustainability Consultant 2007 http://web11573.aiso.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=38&Itemid=54 First LEED Silver Rated Auto Dealership in U.S.
- City of Lancaster, CA - Prime Desert Interpretive Center
Publications
- Green Made Easy: The Everyday Guide for Transitioning to a Green Lifestyle (2009)
- The Hybrid House: Designing with Sun, Wind, Water and Earth (2010)
- Interview, Interview with Chris Prelitz By Terence Loose, August 2008 http://www.coastmagazine.com/Coast-Magazine/August-2008/Interview-with-Chris-Prelitz/ http://web11573.aiso.net/pdfs/laguna-beach-sustainability.pdf
- Interview, Solar Home Lets in the Sun By Kelly Garrison, The Orange County Register, March, 2007. http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/life/abox/article_1595912.php
- Interview, Home, Green Home Riviera Magazine 2006, By Kersten Wehde, Photos by Geoff Ragatz http://web11573.aiso.net/RivieraMagazine06-v2.pdf