But I also saw that from a selfish perspective, it was going to take me probably 20 years of working my way up through the chain of command and through the different positions to really be able to have the type of effect I would want to have on education. And for me, I’m really passionate about education because I do, I really do believe that that is one of those meta-issues that affects everything else in our, in our world. And so I asked myself if I, if I was going to line up all the issues facing the world today in order like a domino chain, what are the first few dominoes that underlie every other problem that we see in the world? And in my infinite 21-year-old wisdom, my answers at the time were education and energy. Jessica Miller-Merrell: Talk to me about your background and how you began working in the solar and clean energy space.Īmanda Bybee: Well, when I graduated from college with my handy dandy liberal arts degree, I asked myself what I wanted to really do with that and I am a person that needs to feel that my work is meaningful in the sense that it is solving some kind of a problem. You are busy busy.Īmanda Bybee: It has been a busy year. Jessica Miller-Merrell: That is quite the introduction. Amanda, welcome to the Workology Podcast.Īmanda Bybee: Thank you so much for having me. In recent years, she has contributed time and energy to several passion projects, including a Women’s Speakers Bureau with WRISE, an informational website on how to recycle solar equipment at and an industry coalition on diversity, equity, and inclusion called Renewables Forward. Amanda has worked in the solar industry since 2003, and over the course of her career, she has helped launch several cooperatives, including employee-owned cooperative Namasté Solar, purchasing cooperative Amicus Solar, financial cooperative Clean Energy Credit Union and shared-services cooperative Amicus O&M Cooperative. Today, we are joined by Amanda Bybee, CEO of Amicus O&M Cooperative. Pierre collaborates with employers and apprenticeship programs to help meet employer talent needs and enable people with disabilities to benefit from apprenticeships that increase their opportunities for lifelong access to high-growth, high-demand jobs. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy, or ODEP. Jessica Miller-Merrell: This episode of the Workology Podcast is part of a podcast series powered by the Partnership on Inclusive Apprenticeship, or PIA. How to Subscribe to the Workology PodcastĮpisode 335: Meaningful Work With Amanda Bybee, CEO of Amicus O&M Cooperative.Episode 335: Meaningful Work With Amanda Bybee, CEO of Amicus O&M Cooperative.Climate warming is rapidly changing things for both bears and humans. But if there was one thing I’d emphasize, it’s that polar bears are directly connected to the people that live and work in the Arctic. What do you wish people knew about polar bears?Īctually, I’m constantly amazed by how much the public knows about polar bears - especially kids. I came up with the secret polar bear sauce (it’s really old fish, old cheese and walrus blubber) that we put inside the traps as a scent attractant. How did you come up with the technique, shown in the film, that uses a wire enclosure to collect polar bear fur for DNA analysis?Ī colleague in Alaska developed the first “hair snare” traps for polar bears, and then engineers here at the UW Applied Physics Laboratory improved the design to make the traps lightweight and collapsible. Researchers use those samples to help monitor the health and movements of polar bears on Wrangel Island. ![]() Polar bear fur comes off on the trap and provides samples for genetic analysis. Eric Regehr (left) and a Russian scientist place a “hair snare” trap by the coast on Wrangel Island.
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