Kevin Brenner
Healthy Home Energy & Consulting
Brewster, NY USA
"There isn’t a more important trade that anybody can be doing right now than saving the planet."
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Day In The Life
Skills &
Education
Advice for getting started
Focus on learning a trade that you're passionate about and that can help save the planet. That can mean becoming an electrician who works toward energy efficiency or it can mean becoming a software engineer who creates a new sustainability-focused product. You don't necessarily need to go to college to do so. Find the right path for you personally to learn that trade. I'm self-taught, which worked out well for me because I was able to build my knowledge and experience myself from the ground up.
Here's the path I took:
High School
Bachelor's Degree
Psychology
Binghamton University
Doctorate
Podiatric Medicine (DPM)
New York College of Podiatric Medicine
Life & Career Milestones
I've taken a lot of twists and turns
1.
Both my father and brother were podiatrists, so I always assumed I would go into podiatry as well.
2.
I graduated college with a degree in psychology and then went on to medical school for podiatry.
3.
After medical school, I was awarded a residency but ultimately decided not to continue.
4.
I had been doing carpentry on the side and started my own company, Brenner Builders—it started with me as the plumber, electrician, and carpenter, and then grew into a successful 60-person company.
5.
I eventually started testing the houses we worked on to see how they’d perform for energy consumption and realized that this could be a whole new business model.
6.
From there, I created Healthy Home Energy & Consulting.
7.
I managed both companies for a while but eventually closed Brenner Builders because my values no longer aligned with my clients’.
8.
I’ve since been solely focused on Healthy Home Energy & Consulting, where we aim to improve the health and comfort of people’s homes while also saving the planet.
