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| CRES
EVENT ARCHIVE
2007
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| January
2007 |
| Friday,
January 26
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
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"Can
We Define, Let Alone Prevent,
‘Dangerous’ Climate Change?”
Jefferson Unitarian Church
14350 W. 32nd Ave.
Golden
Professor Stephen Schneider is Co-Director of the Center
for Environmental Sciences and Policy at Stanford University,
and is one of world's pioneers in climate change research.
Professor Schneider’s career has been devoted to the
study of the Earth's climate. He was a member of the
scientific staff at the National Center for Atmospheric
Research from 1973 to 1996, where he founded the Climate
Project.
He has served as a consultant to federal agencies and
White House staff in the Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush,
and Clinton administrations. He served as Chair of the
American Association for the Advancement of Sciences
Section on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences from
1999 to 2001 and is a member of the National Academy
of Sciences. In 1992, Professor Schneider was honored
with a MacArthur Fellowship (or “MacArthur Genius Award”)
for his ability to integrate and interpret the results
of global climate research. He is the Editor-in-Chief
of the Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather and author
of over 200 scientific papers, proceedings, edited books,
and book chapters.
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| February
2007 |
| Saturday,
February 24
6:00 - 10:00 PM
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CRES
Annual Meeting and Party
Cableland Mansion
4150 Shangri-La Drive
Denver
Special Invited Guest and Keynote Speaker:
Congressman Ed Perlmutter (CO - 7)
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| March
2007 |
Wednesday,
March 21, 2007
5:30 - 7:00 p.m. |
"A
New Market Paradigm
for Zero-Energy Homes” National Renewable
Energy Laboratory Visitors Center
15013 Denver West Parkway
Golden
Barbara Farhar, Ph.D. will talk about how to build
zero energy homes. The talk is a summary of “The San
Diego Case Study,” her recently published comparative
analysis of the first high performance homes by a production
builder in the United States.
Barbara C. Farhar recently retired after 25 years as
a senior policy analyst and senior social scientist
at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in
Golden where she focused on the human dimensions of
energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies.
Farhar has published more than 240 publications and
holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Colorado.
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| April
2007 |
Wednesday,
April 25
5:30 to 7 pm
CRES
Monthly
Meeting |
Towards a Sustainable
Transportation System: Technology and Politics
The CRES monthly meeting will feature a talk by Dr.
Frank Kreith, who is a professor emeritus at the University
of Colorado, where he teaches part time in the Department
of Mechanical Engineering.
The meeting will be held at the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory Visitors Center, 15013 Denver West Parkway,
two blocks west of the Marriott Hotel near I-70 and
Denver West. For directions, see:http://www.nrel.gov/visitors_center/
Frank Kreith C.V.
Dr. Frank Kreith is a Professor Emeritus at the University
of Colorado, where he teaches part time in the Department
of Mechanical Engineering. Kreith was the ASME legislative
fellow at the National Conference of State Legislators
in Denver for the past 13 years where he provided technical
information on energy management, waste disposal, and
transportation to legislators in all 50 states.
Before that, Kreith served for 10 years as chief of
thermal research and senior research fellow at the Solar
Energy Research Institute (now NREL) in Golden. He was
a professor of mechanical engineering at the University
of California at Berkeley (1951-53); Lehigh University
in Bethlehem, PA (1953-54); and the University of Colorado
at Boulder (1959-78).
Kreith has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers,
and authored/edited 15 books on heat transfer, solar
energy, bioengineering, transportation, and waste management.
He was founding editor of the ASME Journal of Solar
Energy Engineering, and is currently editor of the CRC
Mechanical Engineering Series, which publishes text
and reference books for engineering professionals.
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| June
2007 |
Weekend,
June 8 – 10
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CRES
2007 Conference
Steamboat
Grand Resort
Steamboat Springs
Keynote Speakers include
Chuck
Kutscher (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
and
Patricia
Limerick (Center for the American West)
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| July
2007 |
Wednedsay,
July 25
5:30 pm
CRES
Monthly
Meeting
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Book Signing - Greg
Pahl:
"The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook:
Community Solutions to a Global Crisis"
National
Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Visitor Center
15013 Denver West Parkway
(Take I-70 to Exit 263, Denver West Blvd., and then
follow the signs)
Golden
The CRES monthly meeting for July will feature Greg
Pahl, a freelance writer and journalist.
Greg has written hundreds of articles and commentaries
on the arts, business, finance, farming, wind power,
solar energy, electric cars, biodiesel, "green"
appliances, home building materials, and sustainable
forestry management.
The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook is an
eloquent appeal for community and regional action to
initiate an array of solutions to energy needs until
now controlled by large, distant utilities and consortiums.
It is time to take back control of the energy and environmental
challenges ahead; this book will help people do just
that. It is a handbook for anyone ready to take the
first steps towards a more sustainable future.
The meeting will be held at the National Renewable
Energy Laboratory Visitors Center, 15013 Denver West
Parkway, two blocks west of the Marriott Hotel near
I-70 and Denver West. For directions, see:
http://www.nrel.gov/visitors_center/
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| August
2007 |
Thursday,
August 23
5:30 PM
CRES
Monthly
Meeting
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"Colorado's
Climate Challenge: Reducing your Carbon Footprint"
Featuring
Susan Innis (Western Resource Advocates - Boulder)
and
Randy Udall (Community Office for Resource Efficiency
- Aspen)
Jefferson
Unitarian Church
14350 W. 32nd Avenue
(just west of I-70)
Golden
CRES is hosting the renewable energy debate
of the year! Renewable Energy Certificates (also known
as RECs or "green tags") are being used more
extensively in promoting the development of renewable
energy. This debate will focus on whether this certificate
business will work to actually fight global warming,
or allow some polluters to inexpensively buy their way
out of meaningful change.
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Susan Innis is a member of the CRES
Board of Directors. She is the Green Power Marketing Director
at Western
Resource Advocates (WRA), a regional environmental
law and policy center. She works with stakeholders in
the Rocky Mountains to develop and implement community-based
strategies for selling clean energy, and to develop state-level
policies to encourage the use of renewable energy. She
sits on the steering committee for the National Wind Coordinating
Committee and is a member of the Green-e Green Power Board.
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Randy Udall has directed the Community
Office for Resource Efficiency (CORE), a nonprofit
organization that promotes energy efficiency and renewable
energy since 1994. CORE Director Udall also serves on
the Board of Directors of Solar Energy International and
Colorado Renewable Energy Society. CORE promotes renewable
energy and energy efficiency in partnership with Holy
Cross Energy, a rural electric utility serving 40,000
customers. Holy Cross leads the U.S. in the percentage
of its customers who buy wind power. In 1998, CORE started
the first “solar production incentive” program in the
United States; the program pays customers who install
PV systems 25¢/kilowatt-hour for their energy. Holy
Cross has more grid-connected photovoltaic systems than
any of the 930 rural electric utilities in the nation.
Holy Cross’ wind, solar, and hydropower programs will
keep 500 million pounds of greenhouse gases out of the
atmosphere over the next 20 years. In 2000, CORE started
the nation’s first Renewable Energy Mitigation Fund, which
has collected $1,000,000 in building permit fees to install
renewable energy systems.
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A reception with refreshments and
networking will follow this event.
The Jefferson Unitarian Church is at 14350 W. 32nd
Avenue in Golden. Take I-70 to Exit 264, and then go
west on 32nd Avenue for about 1 mile.
www.jeffersonunitarian.org
This event is co-sponsored by
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| September
2007 |
Thursday,
September 27
5:30 PM
CRES
Monthly
Meeting
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Us
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"The
Promises and Prospects of Cellulosic Ethanol"
Jefferson
Unitarian Church
14350 W. 32nd Avenue
(just west of I-70)
Golden
Jim McMillan is the group manager
for Biorefining Process R&D and a principal biochemical
engineer in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's
Bioenergy Center, where he helps advance biochemical-
and thermochemical-based lignocellulose biorefining
technologies. His is the co-inventor on two patents,
co-recipient of two R&D 100 awards, and author or
co-author of six book chapters, more than 60 technical
papers and reports, and more than 100 posters and presentations.
He co-chairs the annual Symposium on Biotechnology for
Fuels and Chemicals and has co-edited the past six symposia
proceedings volumes. A reviewer for several journals
and funding agencies, Jim is a member of both the American
Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers. He is a former elected director in the institute's
Food, Pharmaceutical, and Bioengineering Division and
chaired for its first four years the topical conference
"Envisioning Biorefineries: Chemicals and Materials
from Renewable Resources." He obtained his B.S.
in chemical engineering with high distinction from Colorado
State University and his M.S. in chemical engineering
practice and Ph.D. in biochemical engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A reception with refreshments and networking will
follow this event.
Admission is free for Members of CRES, the Sierra
Club, and the Jefferson Unitarian Church; and only $5
for non-members.
The Jefferson Unitarian Church is at 14350 W. 32nd
Avenue in Golden. Take I-70 to Exit 264, and then go
west on 32nd Avenue for about 1 mile.
www.jeffersonunitarian.org
This event is co-sponsored by
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| October
2007 |
Saturday,
October 6
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2007
Tour of Solar Homes
Denver
http://www.cres-energy.org/events/tour
Fort Collins
http://www.ncres.org
Colorado Springs
http://www.cres-energy.org/chapters_secres.html
several other communities throughout Colorado
http://www.ases.org/tour/2007_tour/colorado.htm
and Nationwide!
http://www.ases.org/tour
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Thursday,
October 25
5:30 PM
CRES
Monthly
Meeting
Please Help
Us
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and Distribute
the Flyer for
this Meeting:
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"Wind
Energy: New Challenges, New Opportunities"
Jefferson
Unitarian Church
14350 W. 32nd Avenue
(just west of I-70)
Golden
Brian Smith is the Program Director
of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's National
Wind Technology Center. Brian was hired at NREL (SERI)
in 1988. He is responsible for managing the laboratory
commitments to the DOE Wind & Hydropower Program
Office and ensuring fulfillment of those commitments.
He works directly with NREL's NWTC and with wind program
staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Brian started
at NREL as a test engineer for field testing of advanced
blades and then became project leader for advanced wind
technology development and field verification partnerships
with industry. He has been involved with the DOE Turbine
Research and DOE-EPRI Turbine Verification Program activities
since their inception in the early 1990s and is well
versed in many aspects of wind turbine research, design,
product development, manufacturing, installation, testing,
certification, operation, and maintenance. Before joining
NREL, Brian worked as Chief Engineer and Operations
& Maintenance Manager for several wind energy companies
in California from 1984 to 1988 during the initial wind
rush.
Brian Smith's Presentation
( PDF
/ 5.6 Mb )
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| November
2007 |
Wednesday,
November 14
5:30 PM
CRES
Monthly
Meeting
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"An Inconvenient
Truth"
First
Universalist Church of Denver
4101 E. Hampden Avenue
(NE Corner of Hampden Ave. & Colorado Blvd.)
Denver
Jeff Hart will present a slide show
and discussion on Al Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary
film, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Jeff has 15 years experience
managing evaluations of government environmental programs
and policies.
More information on this presentation is available
at 303-907-4664 or
jeffshart@comcast.net.
The official website for "An Inconvenient Truth"
is
www.climatecrisis.net
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2007 |
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