PC: https://solect.com/business-beyond-profit-focusing-triple-bottom-line/ By Katelynn Essig Working in a conservative community to complete energy efficiency and renewable energy projects seems nearly impossible from a distance. This is, in large part, due to the idea and desire to communicate the need to ‘fight climate change’ and reduce ‘carbon emissions’. In school, we are taught these are the most […]
By Sean Doty: Almost a half year has gone by working as a Montana Energy Corps member and it feels like I’m running into new challenges. With each project I start at the City of Missoula, I am continuously exposed to new ideas and concepts. Weather it is learning a new energy bench marking tool, […]
By Erika Barnett: National Day of Service for AmeriCorps members intentionally falls on Martin Luther King Day, and it is a day in which all AmeriCorps members commit themselves to enacting public service to benefit specific communities. For the Energy Corps members of Montana, this community was the Northern Cheyenne reservation. Off we drove to […]
By Rachel Sussman: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs depicts the levels of motivation for humans, starting with basic needs- physiological and safety- and moving up to those less essential for survival and more essential for having a meaningful existence. The immediacy of those basic needs does not mitigate the importance of the upper levels; however, it […]
By Alexa Holliday: With only about four months of service with Energy Corps behind me I have already grown and learned in so many ways. One thing that has been on my mind lately is the importance of strong and sustainable communities. Serving for Home ReSource has instilled upon me the vision of their […]
