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Many years ago I had the privilege of knowing Hector Romulus Demmel, a French Canadian backwoods guide who could do just about everything. He was an extraordinary fisherman, even though he didn’t like ...
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Onward, Home Performance Soldiers!
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The rapid expansion of weatherization programs funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (AARA) is requiring an army of newly trained professionals led by veteran home performance contractors. In response, the Building Performance Institute (... [continue reading]
On-the-Job Mentoring
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A theoretical understanding is not enough, and the kind of one-one-one mentoring your workers get in the field - working on real houses with real problems - often can't happen in a classroom or online. [continue reading]
2009 Training Guide for Home Performance Professionals
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Trainers Speak Out on Demand for Green Retrofit Workforce
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The demand is there to create a new green economy, but do we have the trained workforce to begin the job? [continue reading]
Weatherization Boot Camp
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It has become evident, with a national focus on the new “green-collar” job sector, that there is a lot of work to be done if we want to train a workforce to meet ... [continue reading]
Going Green with Online Education
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Some of you may wonder, can online education really prepare individuals for jobs in the building trades or the building performance industry? Let’s face it—computers have changed our world in a ... [continue reading]
Deborah E. Miller
HPC Working For You: Climate Change & Carbon Reduction
HPC develops new approaches to federal, state and local policies that promote growth in the residential energy efficiency sector through ...
Shilpa Sankaran
New Report Shows Big Jump in Net-Zero Energy Homes
Net-zero energy homes seem to be growing their way out of a purely niche market. The number of zero energy ...
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