FESTIVAL WORKSHOPS

Steven Strong –  Saturday, July 21 at 5pm

Steven Strong is President of Solar Design Associates, a group of Engineers and Architects dedicated to the design of environmentally responsive buildings, and the engineering and integration of renewable energy systems.

Over the past three decades, he has earned an international reputation designing dozens of Zero-Net-Energy homes and buildings which provide delightful living/working environments with no purchased energy. He powered the Atlanta Summer Olympics with PV, designed and installed three solar systems at the White House and consulted to the United Nations on powering their World Headquarters with solar.

He’s represented the US on the International Energy Agency’s Experts’ Working Group on Solar in the Built Environment and served as an advisor on energy and environmental issues to 3 governors, 8 US senators, 3 congressmen and 4 presidential candidates. In 1999, TIME Magazine named him an “Environmental Hero of the Planet’. The American Solar Energy Society presented him with its Charles Greeley Abbot Award - the Society’s highest honor, for outstanding lifetime achievement in the advancement of solar energy. TIME again recognized Steven in their 2007 feature: “Innovators Building a Greener World”.

For Solar Fest, Steven will weave technology, politics and social policy together with humor and compelling graphics to clearly demonstrate that the end of the era of cheap oil is upon us and, that renewable energy is ready here and now to help define the path to a sustainable future in the post-petroleum world.