Lisa Alexander
LEED AP
Lisa Alexander is a LEED AP specializing in New Construction, Existing Building Renovations and Operation & Management. Ms. Alexander is a Licensed Realtor who has won several excellence in real estate awards and became the first Certified EcoBroker® in her area. She is also a Nationally Recognized Green Living Expert and a...full bio
Certified Green Building and Environmental Consultantls.
Ms. Alexander is a CSR specialist and was the original Founder/CEO of Green Life, Inc., a Green Consulting Firm committed to educating the public and corporations on how to build healthier, more sustainable lives and buildings for ourselves and future generations. Through Green Life, Lisa designed and implemented strategies to achieve the company’s vision through research, written articles, educational lectures, presentations, DVD’s, and other consulting and educational training programs for both home owners and business owners. She worked closely with community leaders and corporations to develop and successfully implement customized and fully functional Sustainable Environmental & Sociably Responsible Programs to reduce energy, waste, emissions, pollution, water consumption and carbon footprint.
While still in college studying engineering and business management, Lisa was recruited by a private Engineering firm specializing in Home Renovations. Although she loved her job, she soon augmented that with a BA in History and NJ Teachers Certification from New Jersey City University, NJ., where she graduated with Honors; Magna Cum Laude, and Phi Alpha Theta. While working on an addition to a home owned by a commercial TV producer, Lisa was “discovered” and spent the next ten years in New York having a successful print and TV career both in front of and behind the camera. By her early 30’s, Ms. Alexander had distinguished herself as an expert on home renovation was tapped to produce, write and star in her own television home improvement Show, “ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT”, which aired in 2000.
Dubbed by some of her contemporaries and journalists as “The Queen of Green”, Ms. Alexander can best be described as an expert in all things green including green building & renovations, corporate social responsibility, everyday sustainable living, and even organic cooking. Ms. Alexander writes regularly about Green Building and Sustainable Living for various local and national publications, lectures around the country, is often booked on National TV and Radio broadcasts as a Green Expert and appears every year on MSNBC’s GREEN IS UNIVERSAL week as an expert covering the US Green Building Council’s Greenbuild conference.
Lisa Alexander is a member of USGBC, NAR, PAR, SAG, AFTRA, NRDC, WWF, NWF, Audubon Society, UCS, PETA, Defenders of Wildlife, ASPCA, HSUS, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, NPCA, Natures Conservancy and more.