REBUILDING TOGETHER IN MONTANA – GET OUT YOUR HAMMER

This is a great idea. There is nothing more to say except: Go get your hammer.

Billings Homeowner Benefits from Cost, Energy-Saving Renovations
Kerry Strapazon, September 8, 2007 (PR Newswire via Yahoo News)

WHO
Rebuilding Together Yellowstone County (“Rebuild”) (Mary Lou Affleck, executive director), the Montana Petroleum Association (MPA) (Dave Galt, executive director),



WHAT
As part of the Energy Efficient Homes Initiative, Rebuild and MPA rehab’ed the home of a low income Billings, Mont., woman to cut her expenses by saving energy through efficiencies.

WHEN
The “Rebuild” program began in 1973.

WHERE
National “Rebuild” began in Midland, Texas. It will renovate 10,000 US homes this year, cutting energy consumption and costs as much as 30%. The Yellowstone “Rebuild” will do 6 homes this year.

WHY
- The homeowner of the highlighted project is a grandmother helping to raise a 10-year old grandson, physically and financially unable to make the improvements herself.
- The improvements: new weather-stripping and insulation, light fixtures with compact fluorescent lights, energy-efficient windows, exterior and interior painting and electrical work.
- Rebuilding Together is the largest organization of its kind in the country: 250 affiliates, 1879 communities, 270,000 volunteers.

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QUOTES
- Affleck: "This is a wonderful partnership. Together, we are making a positive difference in the lives of those most in need…Providing homeowners living on modest means the tools to dramatically improve energy efficiency enables them to save money and use it for other immediate needs such as food and health care."
- Galt: "America's oil and natural gas industry practices energy efficiency every day within its operations, so we know the significant value of such a commitment…We are delighted to partner with Rebuilding Together Yellowstone County in this outstanding initiative. Our efforts will provide low-income homeowners with the dual benefit of saving energy and money."