Advisory Board

Donald W. Aitken, Ph.D.
DONALD AITKEN ASSOCIATES
Consulting Scientist

Ed Begley, Jr.
Actor / Environmental Advocate

Steve Bornstein
Consultant

Christopher Flavin, President
WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE

Jean A. Gardner, Director
EARTH GROUP

Sara Nichols
Environmental Attorney

Walter Scott Perry, Architect
S E ARCH

William Roley, Ph.D., Director
PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Michael Rotondi FAIA
ROTO ARCHITECTS, INC.

Steven J Strong, President
SOLAR DESIGN ASSOCIATES

Mary Tucker
Environmental Services Specialist
CITY OF SAN JOSE

Robert Wilkinson
Lecturer, Environmental Studies
UC SANTA BARBARA
DONALD BREN SCHOOL

Steven J. Strong
President
sjstrong@solardesign.com
SOLAR DESIGN ASSOCIATES

Steven founded the firm in 1974 after serving as an energy-systems engineering consultant on the Alaskan pipeline. He was convinced that there were easier, less-costly, more environmentally desirable ways to provide comfort and convenience to the consumer than "going to the ends of the earth to extract the last drop of fossil fuel".

Drawing on his background in architecture and engineering, he has earned the firm an international reputation for the pioneering integration of renewable energy systems - especially solar electricity - with environmentally responsive building design.

Over the last 24 years, he has designed dozens of homes and buildings powered by solar electricity which provide delightful living/working environments while requiring little or no purchased energy. In 1984, working with New England Electric, he completed the world's first PV-powered neighborhood in central Massachusetts. In 1996, he worked with Olympic village architects to power the natatorium complex at the 1996 Summer Games with solar electricity using the world's largest roof-top PV power system.

Steven is the US Representative to the International Energy Agency's expert working group on PV-in-Buildings and has served as an advisor on energy and environmental issues to 3 Governors, 2 US Senators and 3 presidential candidates as well as a number of electric utilities. TIME magazine has named him an 'Environmental Hero'.

He is the author of The Solar Electric House and Solar Electric Buildings, an Overview of Today's Applications. He is the editor and contributing author of Photovoltaics in the Built Environment, a Design Guide for Architects and Engineers and Reshaping the Built Environment: Ecology, Ethics and Economics.

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