On Wednesday I was interviewed for my involvement with Tremaine Phillips’ TogetherGreen Project in Lansing, Michigan. Look for the footage on www.togethergreen.org soon!
The interview was about my experience with the East Lansing Residential Weatherization Pilot Program (RWPP), a grant-funded program that ran this past January. The RWPP was aimed at showing East Lansing homeowners how to reduce home energy consumption in order to lower energy bills. A team of trained group leaders helped ten families install do-it-yourself home weatherization kits, demonstrating the ease with which homeowners can implement similar changes all over the city.
To help facilitate the program, Phillips reached out to a select group of community volunteers who shared his own passion and knowledge about energy efficiency to act as group leaders.
“I was delighted to help out Tremaine with the program, basic weatherization upgrades are an easy, cost-effective way to cut our energy use and save Lansing homeowners money on their utility bills.”
Inspired by this very notion as a senior at MSU, Duke co-founded Go Green Energy Consulting, a home energy improvement company based in Lansing. As a group leader for the RWPP, he shared his knowledge and experience working with home energy efficiency. He now runs Go Green EC full time, performing home energy audits and weatherization upgrades all over Southern Michigan.
“A majority of the feedback we’ve received has been very positive,” said Phillips. “Adam and the rest of the team did an excellent job and we look forward to reshaping Michigan’s energy future.”
About TogetherGreen:
TogetherGreen is an Audubon program funded by Toyota that “aims to provide inspiration, leadership and opportunities that inspire people everywhere to take action at home, in their communities and beyond to improve the health of our environment.” For more information, visit www.togethergreen.org.
