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Chris Prelitz

Chris Prelitz

Master home designer and builder; principal designer at Prelitz Design + Build and director of energy projects at Solutions International; pioneer in net-zero, solar-powered, and green building practices for 35+ years.

Jul 17, 2026

piper: decoding healthy & regenerative design

piper: decoding healthy & regenerative design

Raising bale: Building a straw think tank

Jul 17 · 31m

Beth Cochran
Beth CochranHOST
3:32
And that's Chris Prelitz, the third conspirator behind the idea of CASBA.
Chris Prelitz
Chris PrelitzGUEST
3:37
And we ended up, uh, taking the flight back from Ne- New Mexico to California, and on the flight was sort of the seed of CASBA.
Chris Prelitz
Chris PrelitzGUEST
3:44
We'd all said, you know, "I'm excited about this.
Chris Prelitz
Chris PrelitzGUEST
3:46
You're excited about this." We were all builders, and so as builders, we sort of got and saw, like, this makes sense.
Chris Prelitz
Chris PrelitzGUEST
3:53
These are just big bricks that are sustainable.
Chris Prelitz
Chris PrelitzGUEST
3:55
They're super insulating.
Chris Prelitz
Chris PrelitzGUEST
3:57
Um, we- we're, we're really excited about this.

18 MINS LATER

Turco Sims
Turco SimsGUEST
21:57
But there's been this continuity, and there is something about straw bale.

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