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Local Students Explore STEM Careers

A home energy audit is the last thing on the summer bucket list for most high school students, but that’s just what Jessie Knight found herself doing last month. Knight shadowed Evergreen Home Performance Energy Advisor Liza Wheeler as part of a pilot program developed at the

Making Sense of Your Home

Homeowners come to energy efficiency along all different paths. Lee from South Portland, Maine had been thinking about it for years, but her preliminary research made the process seem overwhelming. When she learned that Evergreen Home Performance offers a free one-hour consult, she ju

Evergreen and Community Buildings

We’ve had a couple of Hey, do you ever work on community buildings? calls lately. The answer: You bet!

Indoor Air Quality & Healthy Homes

Are you living with one of the EPA’s list of top five environmental threats to public health?

It’s time for the North Atlantic Blues Festival!

Evergreen Home Performance is proud to be a Presenting Sponsor of MidCoast 102.5’s simulcast of the North Atlantic Blues Festival. The annual two-day blues music festival is held at the Public Landing in Rockland, Maine, but Evergreen’s sponsorship m

On the Evergreen Bookshelf: Before the Lights Go Out

We’re avid readers here at Evergreen, and we’ve been telling everyone about Maggie Koerth-Baker’s new book on the future of America’s energy system. Here’s why.

Sorry, Kid: The Truth about Insulation

It’s hard not to bring your work home with you – especially when your work focuses on homes. That explains why the dinner-table conversation at my house tends to include insulation, basement encapsulation, and the potential of PACE and PowerSavers to transform Maine’s energy landscape.

Evergreen in the Community

Starting a business comes with plenty of headaches, but one of the many rewards comes from building an organization we’re proud of. At Evergreen Home Performance, that means responsible business practices like family-friendly wages, on-the-job training, and health insurance for all of our employees. It also means supporting the community organizations we care about.

Practical Wisdom

One of our customers sent this our way. It’s about workplace rules, and how they bolster bureaucracy and undermine innovation. They end up interfering with – even impairing – our progress towards core, mission-critical goals. Barry Schwartz, who studies the link between economics and psychology, argues that the only solution is to encourage and embrace the practical wisdom that comes from doing.

Come for the Art, Stay for the Energy Efficiency

When the head of the National Endowment of the Arts visited Rockland, Maine last week, he probably didn’t expect to hear about energy efficiency contracting. But in the story of Rockland’s renaissance, art and the economy are intertwined, and Evergreen Home Performance has one of the staring roles.

Prioritizing Efficiency – and Moving Forward

Lowering our energy expenses is a far bigger priority for most of us than getting the newest iPhone or iPad – but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to do. A survey by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research asked people to rank their energy usage priorities and the challenges to changing those usage patterns.