ABOUT ENERGY SHIFT
Founded by Laurie Huber in 2005, Energy Shift is the realization of ideas that have been gaining momentum since the OPEC oil embargo and the first Earth Day in the early 1970’s. Focused on the principle that the backbone of change is individual action—Energy Shift introduces you to simple tools and gives you useful information to help you move away from our collective dependence on fossil fuels.
Energy Shift wants to inform everyone about choices we have in how we consume energy. We are dedicated to educating and encouraging energy consumers to make choices that shift energy consumption away from polluting, sometimes imported, fossil fuels to renewable energy sources and more efficient products.
Energy Shift provides you with information about how and why to reduce the amount of energy you consume and information about products that enable all of us to reduce the amount of energy used. Energy Shift seeks to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and improve air and water quality. We are working to increase individual consumer action supporting an overall energy shift.
Energy Shift will help you make small changes in your life that will, collectively, make big changes in our world.
Responsible energy use and energy conservation starts here.
Laurie Huber, founder of Energy Shift
About Laurie Cahill Huber
I am a lifelong lover of nature and playing outside. Growing up playing in the woods and especially the creeks near home and school; and childhood vacations at the beach made a strong impression. Nature, the earth, is pretty great.
Living in the Washington Metropolitan Area, I was fortunate to have had access to many events such as the Solar Decathlon https://www.solardecathlon.gov that provided a rich environment for immersion in various interests and employment in renewable energy, conservation, waste reduction, recycling, and later hazardous waste management, water and drinking water protection and community outreach related to environmental concerns.
Early work experiences included Georgetown Junk (paper recyclers), intern for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (environmental work only), and U.S. Marine Corps Headquarters Land and Facilities Division Environment and Natural Resources Office. Followed by working for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Resource Conservation and Recovery Act – Superfund Hotline. These jobs provided a unique set of knowledge, experience, and contacts that laid the groundwork for a very successful career as an environmental consultant. As a consultant I supported hundreds of clients with compliance and/or program development primarily with hazardous waste, waste reduction, and community outreach—but also with energy conservation, water, and drinking water management.
Volunteering in my community has also been a large part of my life—working on the community Litter Prevention and Recycling Council. We established one of the first curbside recycling collection programs in the country. As a heavily treed community, we created a yard waste collection and composting program. We also developed a program for elementary school kids, Operation Earth Watch. Finally, I participated in the update to a 20-year Plan for Solid Waste Management for our city and was co-chair of the city’s Climate Change Task Force.
I have always been most interested in Climate Change– taking and inspiring others to individual action. I started Energy Shift Corp in 2005 (produced a quarterly newsletter, website, sold household items that conserve energy or were alternatives to fossil fuel-based items). Always a tiny business, it was virtually dormant during for the last few years, but we are reviving it now.