Obviously, we here at the Conservation Law Foundation think that crafting and advocating for environmental solutions is a very important thing to be doing and that when we have a job opening that the best, smartest, most tenacious and brightest folks should apply.

However, we know that we are part of a much larger network and community of people and organizations working to create positive change.  Some of those groups work largely out of the public eye – providing critical infrastructure for the flashier and more visible efforts.  An excellent example of one such group is the Appliance Standards Awareness Project (ASAP) which has done a phenomenal job of coordinating and advancing the work of the environmental and efficiency advocacy communities in the world of standards setting for appliances.  It might sound kind of boring but it is of critical importance – which I will lay out a bit more below.

But before I get to that here is the important part – they are hiring.  If you have what it takes to be a “Strategic Program / Technical Analyst” you should give them a look.

And getting back to why this is important – take a look at your refrigerator.  It uses much less energy today (inspiring many fewer nasty power plant emissions into the air and painful wallet emissions into energy bills) than if there had not been a massive effort over decades to improve standards for that most vital of appliances. And ASAP has played a key role in creating the new standards that will make our society, homes and buildings even more efficient, saving money while reducing emissions.

This is the real story of energy efficiency – saving money, creating new technologies (and jobs) -  a stark contrast to the ugly and inaccurate (ok: wrong and evil) stories that are told by people of ill will.  And the fact that a small organization that has for worked quietly out of a main office in a quiet residential neighborhood of Boston has been at the center of this positive revolution is just another really cool part of the tale.