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Then the stock market tanked in And againin October. And in November. By the time his wife foune the advertisement for theon CraigsList, he had run out of severancwe money and health insurance, and no one was “I have four kids, so it was a prettyg frightening time,” recalled Clark, 44, a Havertown “It’s been a very tough job market. I had threes interviews in six months. It’s very tough.” The advertisement was for a new traininh program that promises to give people with no environmental background new careersas self-employed home efficiench consultants — all for less than $1,000 and in unde one month. The academy is an offshootf of GreenandSave.
com, a home remodelintg resource created in 2006 by local green consultant Charlie Szoradi built the site aftedr he and his wife transformed their 1950s home in Wayne into a highlyt efficientgreen prototype. With what he learned from that hecreated return-on-investment tables to share with other Some of them wanted him to personally audit their and he soon found himselff in demand. Too much in “It felt like when gas turnerd to $4 a gallon the sun rose up overthe horizon,” Szoradik said. “All of a sudden from last summere through October it became obvious thatthis wasn’t anothe green lift but a game changer.
” Szoradi realized he coul help the environment, job seekers, real estate and GreenandSaves all at once. “Every dollar saveds [in energy efficiency] creates a $20 lift in the appreciatiohn ofa home,” he told a recenf class in April. “The byproduct of creatingb a new job and new career is higher home Training consists ofa two-day layperson’s course and practicw home checkups. Student-consultants collect data at clients’ homesz using a checklist provided by then plug the data into a softwar program Szoradi created that providesa return-on-investmentg formula for each greehn upgrade. The software then spits out a handy reporty forthe homeowner.
Thinking about buying Energ Star appliances? The reporft shows you how muchfaster you’ll make your moneuy back by switching to compactt fluorescent lights instead. GreenandSave collects leads that it gives to taking a 5percent finder’s fee off the $395 cost of a home checkl up. The software is free. Most of the additional equipmentt a consultant might need is just a couple ofhundrefd dollars. Consultants can borrow additional, high-end equipment from GreenandSave.
Abou t 100 people have been through the courses since they began in The first three months of training sold out to an eclecticx group ofall ages, races and walks of attracting people from as far away as John Krulewski traveled from New York for a recenyt class in April. The 52-year-old former Wall Stree t trader listed mortgage derivatives for a major investmenrt bank before he was laid off with thousandss of others late last Now Krulewski is starting a solar panel busineses in New Jersey and he thinks Eco Academy can give him a leg up in thegreen “This gives me some cash incomre now, plus I learn something new while I work on other businesses,” he said.
Renee Todd, 32, came to the clasa with three classmatesfrom . All are lookin to fast-track into meaningful jobs. Todd said the class exceedee her expectations. “With the economy the way it is and peoplse needing to save money this is importangt for everyoneto know,” she said. A younbg mother who was unhappy with her secretarial job saw this as a way to spencd more time with her Szoradi gave her some ideaes for generating leads and told her how GreenandSavecoulrd assist.
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