Chris Prelitz

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Early life

Chris was born in 1956 in Memphis, Tennessee, the oldest of 6 siblings. Son of Paul Philip Prelitz, 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. suede car seats

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. air purifier ionizer

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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 American journal on sustainability.

In 1992, when Prelitz discovered that burning rice straw was the number one cause of air pollution in California, he collaborated with 2 colleagues to form the non-profit CASBA (California Straw Builders Assoc.) that found a sustainable use for the straw as a high performance building system. CASBA funds fire, moisture, seismic and load testings that have furthered the adoption of strawbale construction and eventually saw the California Building Code and Department of Energy embrace Straw-bale construction.

Prelitz was the sustainability consultant for the City of Lancaster's award winning Interpretive Center (The Elyze Clifford Interpretive Center), the first publicly funded strawbale structure in the U.S.

Selected Projects

Guest host of The Discovery Channel's Greenovate July 10, 2008 Real estate investor and professional green consultant, Chris Prelitz, is determined to show people the light. He has purchased a 1600 square-foot, two bedroom, two bathroom house in Laguna Woods, California for $460,000 and plans to not only transform it into a model solar-powered home, but also flip it for a profit. However, it's not long before Chris encounters resistance from the local home owners association and he begins to realize that his green vision may require a lot more "green" than he had anticipated.

Mercedes Benz, Az. Sustainability Consultant 2007 First LEED Silver Rated Auto Dealership in U.S. Solar p.v. shade structure will provide up to 35 percent of the electrical power during off-peak hours and any surplus power would be sold back to the electric company. Waste water and storm runoff will be reused in landscape irrigation.

Tesco Corp. 2007, Fresh and Easy Markets - U.S.

City of Lancaster, CA - Prime Desert Interpretive Center | Construction Photos

La Posada Hotel Winslow, AZ

Publications

Green Made Easy: The Everyday Guide for Transitioning to a Green Lifestyle (2009)

Interview, Interview with Chris Prelitz By Terence Loose, August 2008

Interview, Solar Home Lets in the Sun By Kelly Garrison, The Orange County Register, March, 2007.

Interview, Home, Green Home Riviera Magazine 2006, By Kersten Wehde, Photos by Geoff Ragatz

Featured Expert, Citizenre REnU

References

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External links

New Leaf America

Hay House Radio

Chris Prelitz official website

Interview with Chris Prelitz, 2008

Solar Home Lets in the Sun, 2007

Home, Green Home, 2006

The Discovery Channel: Greenovate

Meet the Greenovate Hosts: Chris Prelitz

Five Super Solar Products: Chris Prelitz

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