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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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