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January 26th, 2010

CRES Clips

As a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, CRES depends on your support.

CRES is successful because of the energy and commitment of members, volunteers and donors. The scope and outreach of CRES will be enhanced and expanded by further use of technology and the expansion of paid staff to guide and coordinate the CRES pool of dedicated volunteers.

Would you consider investing in renewable energy for Colorado?
Mail your donation to CRES at P.O. Box 933, Golden, CO 80402
You can also contribute online through the (secured by PayPal) CRES website:
http://www.cres-energy.org/joinorder.html

Climate Change Activities from Congress to Copenhagen” featuring Congressman Ed Perlmutter!
7:00 PM Thursday, January 28

There has been more official activity to deal with climate change over the past year than at any other time since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. Join CRES for an update on these activities at the national and international levels.

Invited: Congressman Ed Perlmutter represents the 7th District of Colorado. He was elected to his first of two terms in the Colorado State Senate in 1994, where he garnered a reputation as a bipartisan bridge-builder and a champion of renewable energy and smart growth policies. In the 111th Congress, he serves on the exclusive Financial Services Committee and the influential Rules Committee which sets the parameters for debating and voting for legislation on the House floor.
http://perlmutter.house.gov

Bill Becker moderated several panel discussions at the recent COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project at the University of Colorado's Wirth Chair in Environmental and Community Development Policy. Before that, Bill was the director of the US Department of Energy's Central Regional Office, where he specialized in energy efficiency, renewable energy technologies and sustainable community development. His diverse career has also seen him serve as Associate Director of the Wisconsin Energy Extension Service and Communications Director for the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. His specialization in sustainable development began in the 1970s when he proposed and helped implement a pioneering project in which a Wisconsin community relocated from a floodplain and built the nation's first "solar village.
www.ClimateActionProject.com

This meeting will take place on Thursday, January 28, 7:00 PM, at the Jefferson Unitarian Church, 14350 West 32nd Avenue (about a mile west of I-70) in Golden.
www.jeffersonunitarian.org

PLEASE CARPOOL AND ARRIVE EARLY, as the JUC parking lot can fill up quite quickly. There are overflow lots at the park about two blocks west of the JUC, and in the Applewood Shopping Center on the east side of I-70. You can offer a find a ride to this meeting through the Discussion of this event on LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gid=1833110&
discussionID=12206779&goback=%2Eana_1833110_1263336241700_3_1%2Eanh_1833110

Admission is Free for CRES members, and only $5 for non-members.
A free networking reception with light snacks and drinks will follow the meeting.

Those who cannot join us in person can log on to our FREE Live Webcast!

CRES Regional Groups will not be hosting any official viewings of this webcast in the Fort Collins, Colorado Springs, or Pueblo areas, but we still hope to see many of you log in on your own from those parts of the state.

We are also very excited to announce that the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce will host its own viewing of this webcast from its offices at 6840 S. University Blvd. (just south of Arapahoe Rd., and across University from the newly-redeveloped Southglenn neighborhood) in Centennial.
www.BestChamber.com

A total of 25 connections will be available to this webcast. If you are outside the Denver West area (and the areas mentioned above) and would like to host your own viewing of this webcast, please download the updated webcast instructions for using our new LinkUpGreen webcasting platform from the CRES website:
www.cres-energy.org/events/misc/
CRES-WebcastHosting&ViewingInstructions-2010.pdf

Complete information about this meeting and webcast – with more coming soon – is available on the CRES website:
www.cres-energy.org/events#Jan2010CRESmtg

And if you're not available at all this Thursday night, you can still view the recorded webcast of this presentation – along with all monthly meetings since March 2008 – on the CRES Event Archives by the end of the week:
www.cres-energy.org/events/archives/2010 > January 28

This event is co-sponsored by the Jefferson Unitarian Church
www.JeffersonUnitarian.org

Please JOIN US for this educational and inspiring event!

CRES Annual Meeting, Party, and Silent Auction
Friday, February 26, in Denver

The 2010 CRES Annual Meeting, Party, and Silent Auction will take place on Friday, February 26, 6:30 PM at the Colorado History Museum, 1300 Broadway in Downtown Denver. This venue was chosen due to its central location in Denver, and to celebrate the unique character of Colorado’s past.
www.cres-energy.org/events#AnnlMtg

Enjoy great food & drinks, win valuable prizes like a Solar Thermal System (donated by SolSource) in the Silent Auction, hear about the past & next year in CRES activities, and network with leaders of Colorado's New Energy Economy ... all while supporting CRES!

You can save 25% by registering online through CRES’s PayPal-secured website by Monday, February 22:
www.cres-energy.org/joinorder.html#CRES_Annual_Party

CRES also invites you to be a part of the renewable energy movement in Colorado by donating an item to our silent auction at this event. Your donations support our annual educational events throughout the state, including the Colorado Renewable Energy Conference and the Tour of Solar Homes. Donations from last year’s fundraiser enhanced these and other educational activities in Colorado. To donate to this effort, please contact CRES at either
303-806-5317 or silentauction@cres-energy.org.

If you don’t have an item or can’t attend the event but would like to help anyway, then please consider donating $25 or the amount of your choice to CRES.
www.cres-energy.org/joinorder.html

Thanks to Rothgerber, Johnson & Lyons, LLP for sponsoring this event.
Sponsorship opportunities are still available for this and all CRES events.
Contact CRES for more information:
303-806-5317 / info@cres-energy.org

ACTION ALERT: Restore Solar Access to Denver’s Zoning Code!

Have you heard of Solar Access? Solar Access asserts a legal principle that we all have a right to access sunshine. Check out the City of Denver’s Code Rewrite – Final Draft (#4) – at its Zoning Code website:
www.NewCodeDenver.org

Denver had solar access in its codes from 1992 until 2002, but those provisions were not renewed. Now the city is in the final stages of rewriting its codes according to a new scheme oriented around neighborhood and building types. Each type of neighborhood requires graphic and verbal description of solar access – and exercise that Denver planners have not bothered to go through. In order to re-establish solar access, the examples would need to specify how neighboring buildings spatially relate to each other and to the sun, and how architecture and landscaping must preserve access to sunshine. Final Draft (#4) of the code rewrite does NOT restore solar access rights to Denver. Denverites and solar businesses who care about this issue should discuss it with their local City Council representatives and at-large members before final approval.

The CRES Policy Committee also wants to hear about similar issues throughout the rest of Colorado. Please contact CRES if you want to ensure solar access in other cities’ zoning codes.
303-806-5317 / info@cres-energy.org

CRES Policy Committee Update

The Policy Committee is also exploring additional possibilities to advance the New Energy Economy in Colorado, including providing input to Denver’s City Council regarding codifying active and passive solar access, exploring loading order directives and best practices favoring the dispatching of renewable energy in baseload; and other mechanisms, including feed-in-tariffs, for supporting the growth of the renewable energy and energy efficiency industries throughout Colorado.

If you would like to help with any of these efforts, please contact CRES:
303-806-5317 / info@cres-energy.org

Updates from CRES Regional Groups

The SE-CRES regional group (based in Colorado Springs and Pueblo) held a successful re-organization meeting a few weeks ago, so look for more updated information and opportunities to come soon from them.
http://secres.wordpress.com

Join NCRES for its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, February 9, 7:00 PM at the Odell Brewery in Fort Collins. Stephen Ponce-Pore is the Energy Programs Manager for the Bank of Colorado, and he will discuss “Can residential solar and the mortgage industry save the world?”
www.ncres.org

CRES would also like to welcome the following regional group liaisons to its Board of Directors:

- NCRES: Roger Alexander
(SolSource, Sirius Energy Solutions, and Poudre Valley REA)

and

- SE-CRES: Terry Meikle
(Colorado Springs Utilities)

Call for Papers to Present at
2010 Colorado Renewable Energy Conference,
June 18-20 in Montrose

The 2010 Colorado Renewable Energy Conference will be held in Montrose on the weekend of June 18-20. This year's theme is "Clean Energy: Let's Get to Work!"
www.cres-energy.org/conference

CRES is calling for presentations, papers and panel discussions regarding clean energy & energy efficiency technologies, measures, policies, programs and analytical tools. We invite you to contribute your most creative work and new ideas in the following areas:
- Renewable energy in the agricultural environment
- Energy technologies and information technologies
- Micro-hydro
- Geothermal energy
- Design and performance of buildings
- Transportation
- Utility regulation, strategies, and policy
- Sustainable communities
- Program design, implementation, and evaluation
- Human and social dimensions of renewable energy use
- Climate change and renewable energy or energy efficiency policies
- Workforce development, training and growth of renewable energy/
energy efficiency jobs

Selected papers, presentations and panel discussions will be showcased at the Conference on Saturday, June 19th. If you are interested in making a presentation or organizing a panel discussion, please submit an abstract (250 words maximum) to CREC 2010 Planning Committee:
CREC2010_Submission@cres-energy.org

The deadline for submitting proposals is Friday, February 12th.
Tracks and groupings will be decided after presentation topics are selected.

If you have additional idea on the program content (keynote, topics, workshops, panel discussions, speakers, etc.) and format type (panel discussion, roundtable, group discussion, etc.), please feel to send us a note to the email address above.

Thank you in advance for your interest!
We look forward to seeing you at the 2010 Conference, June 18-20 in Montrose.

CRES Volunteer Needs

Even though we are growing, CRES remains primarily a volunteer-run organization. We are looking for volunteers to help with the following needs:

Membership Database Upgrade & Conversion
CRES Membership Coordinator Pat Grossman needs some computer-database-savvy volunteers to help with converting our membership database to eTapestry Online between now and (approximately) April 2010. You can be involved on a limited basis, and during the process help brainstorm & customize this very powerful new management tool for CRES. You can work on this project at any point in your day, and there should only be a few meetings to attend.
303-806-5317 / info@cres-energy.org

Volunteer Intern for the Tour of Solar Homes
Few people realize how much work is involved in staging a Tour of Solar Homes. While it only happens over 1-2 days, it is truly a year-round effort! CRES needs someone to work with an intern from the Center for ReSource Conservation in Boulder to help promote the Denver and Boulder Tours of Solar Homes in late September, compile data, assist the committee in home selection, and overall planning for the event.
303-806-5317 / info@cres-energy.org

Webcast Volunteers
The CRES Webcast Committee has – until now – consisted mainly of Sierra Dall (Challenge International) and CRES Communications Director Phil von Hake, whom you might recognize from working the computer, projector, microphones, and phones in the front row at our monthly meetings over the past two years. While Phil & Sierra will still be deeply involved with the monthly webcasts, CRES now wants to add more volunteers to this committee at both the host and remote viewing sites. If you’d like to help with running the webcast at the main meeting site – or if you’d like to host your own viewing of CRES webcasts outside the Denver area (a great networking and marketing tool for those already using it!) – then please contact the CRES Webcast Committee directly:
303-762-8547 / webcast@cres-energy.org

Miscellaneous
CRES always needs volunteers to help staff its booth at events (especially during the Earth Day season from March until May), make some phone calls, etc. Please contact CRES if you'd like to be a part of this effort:
303-806-5317 / info@cres-energy.org

Nominations for CRES Awards

CRES is now accepting nominations for its awards:

Renewable Energy in Buildings Awards
Recognizing building owners, builders, and construction companies for innovative use of renewable energy in buildings
www.cres-energy.org/about_awards.html
#The_Colorado_Renewable_Energy_in_Buildings_Awards_

The Larson-Notari Award for Distinguished Service
Recognizing individuals for distinguished service and exemplary contributions to the field of renewable energy
www.cres-energy.org/about_awards.html
#The_Larson-Notari_Award_for_Distinguished_Service_

Volunteer of the Year Award
Awarded to a CRES member who has volunteered extraordinary amounts of time and effort and made significant contributions to the betterment of CRES and its causes
www.cres-energy.org/about_awards.html#CRES_Volunteer_of_the_Year_Award

You can download the Nomination Forms for each of these awards at the CRES website:
www.cres-energy.org/documents/2010Awards/
2010_Renewable_Energy_and_Sustainable_Design_in_Buildings_Awards.pdf

www.cres-energy.org/documents/2010Awards/Larson_Notari_Award_Form_2010.pdf

www.cres-energy.org/documents/2010Awards/
Volunteer_of_the_Year_Award_2010.pdf

The deadline for CRES award nominations is Friday, April 2.
These awards will be announced and presented at the 2010 Colorado Renewable Energy Conference, June 18-20 in Montrose.

New Date for the 2010 Denver & Boulder Tours of Solar Homes

The 2010 Denver Tour of Solar Homes will now be held on Saturday, September 25, and the Boulder Tour will be on Sunday, September 26. Both CRES and Boulder’s Center for Resource Conservation have decided to hold their Tours one week earlier than the usual “first weekend in October” in order to avoid conflicts with The Race for the Cure, election campaigning, and other major events.

Would you like to feature your own home or building on the 2010 Denver Tour of Solar Homes? You can start the process by filling out our web questionnaire:
www.cres-energy.org/events/tour/questionnaire.html

Look for other exciting changes coming to our 2010 Tour!

CRES has expanded its Social Media offerings … again!

Thanks to CRES volunteers John Avenson, Gerry Fitzpatrick, and others, CRES expanded into the world of social media this past summer through its page on LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=1833110&trk=anet_ug_grppro

And now, thanks to new CRES volunteer Jesse Truax, CRES now also has a presence on

Facebook
www.facebook.com/pages/Colorado-Renewable-Energy-Society-CRES/209982749702?ref=ts

Twitter
www.twitter.com/c_r_e_s_

and (just added)Meetup
www.meetup.com/CRES-Events/?a=fd_new_rsvp_multi_grp

Please join these pages and help spread the word about them throughout your own social networks!

Look for additional social media, web/e-mail, and other exciting new projects to come from CRES in 2010 and beyond.

 

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