This year at Rising Sun Energy Center (Rising Sun), we are joined by three interns from three different countries: Ghana, Turkey and Costa Rica. These individuals have traveled miles away from home to gain deep knowledge and practical experience in successful models of encouraging energy efficiency to build…

Rising Sun Energy Center (Rising Sun), a leading workforce development non-profit based in the San Francisco Bay Area, has been selected as one of only fifteen organizations to be featured in Learning a Living: Radical Innovation in Education for Work. The book, which was recently published and is now available…

Sustainability. It’s a hot word in today’s society, but what does it really mean? Being sustainable can mean restoring as much as you use to maintain a balance point for all things. Ecologically this means that we must conserve resources and control production and waste to preserve our environment.

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”]No visit to Ireland is complete without a visit to the Blarney Stone! Christina Chan Marketing & Outreach Manager I recently…

Evan Pendleton LIFT, Pleasanton California Youth Energy Service’s Pleasanton site had an especially fantastic week. We’ve now met almost all of our goals and we still have three more days of Green House Calls to go! Today we had a great time filming a parody of Queen’s Bohemian…

Sophie Barich LIFT, Marin County What’s been growing in Marin? This week has exceeded our expectations! We received confirmations that next week we will be performing mass Green House Calls (GHCs) on… not one… not two… but three multi-unit dwellings! To finish such a feat in 3 days…

Rai Fung Lee LIFT, San Leandro The San Leandro site is doing an awesome job finishing strong. We are headed towards achieving our goal of serving 250 homes. Our energy specialists are doing their very best at trying to reach this goal; they are getting walk-in appointments when…

Dorian Miller LIFT, Union City Week 5 is in the books and the end of the CYES program is fast approaching at the Union City site. Our Energy Specialists (ESes) have really been working hard helping the site reach our performance goals for this summer. They also had…

Rachel Burns LIFT, Berkeley The past week in Berkeley, we recorded a song to educate our community about the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab meters. These meters have been very popular in the Berkeley community so this song was to be a piece of cake for our site. However,…

William Spivey LIFT, Antioch Our program, which started on July 3, has recently concluded its fifth week of services in Antioch. At the end of Friday (Aug 3), we surpassed our goals for the number of greenhouse calls (250) to 256 total homes. We are currently on pace…