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Larson-Notari Award
2012 AWARD - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
CRES Nomination Form
2011 Larson-Notari Award Winner: Ms. Leslie W. Glustrom
Past Recipients:
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2010
About the Award
CRES annually recognizes individuals who have made
significant contributions to the field of renewable energy, energy
efficiency, and sustainable buildings through the Larson-Notari award.
The Larson-Notari Award is named in honor of Dr. Ronal
Larson and Paul Notari, two founding members of the Colorado Renewable
Energy Society (CRES) in 1996.
Read more about Ronal Larson and Paul
Notari.
The CRES Board of Directors selects each year’s winners
from nominations submitted by CRES members. The winners must live in
Colorado but do not have to be CRES members. Nominations are
confidential, and CRES notifies only the winners that they were
successfully nominated. CRES gives each award winner a handsome plaque,
which is thanks to a generous donation from Pieter van der Mersch, who
has been a resource-conservation advocate since the early 1970’s, and his
wife, Martha van der Mersch. |
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2010 Recipient: Amory Lovins |
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Colorado Renewable Energy Society is proud to present
its
Larson-Notari Award for 2010 to Amory Lovins.
Few people have done as much to advance
the important discussions about energy and resource
efficiency in modern society as Amory B. Lovins, a
consultant and experimental physicist based in Snowmass,
Colorado. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1993, and
has been active at the nexus of energy, resources,
environment, development, and security in more than 50
countries for 35 years. He is one of the world’s leading
authorities on energy—especially its efficient use and
sustainable supply—and a fertile innovator of
integrative design.
In 1976, Amory upended energy thinking by
asking why customers want energy (e.g., for hot showers
and cold beer), then suggesting they seek it in the
right amount, quality, source, and scale to do each task
in the cheapest way. This “end-use/least-cost” approach
offers foresight into efficient market outcomes, and
enormously reduces waste, cost, risk, pollution,
depletion, vulnerability, poverty, and conflict.
In 1982, Amory and Hunter Lovins founded
Rocky Mountain Institute ( www.rmi.org ) to extend his
approach to real-estate development, transportation,
climate protection, community & global economic
development, security, engineering design, and other
areas. But Amory and RMl's core efforts have focused on
energy: electric utilities, vehicle efficiency, green
buildings, and energy- & resource-efficient business
practices. Indeed, when RMI was founded, Amory and
Hunter decided to create an extremely energy- and
resource-efficient building as their base. Today, their
main building remains among the world's most
energy-efficient, saving 99 percent of space- and
water-heating energy, 90 percent of household
electricity (the reset is solar generated), and 50
percent of water, all with a 10-month payback in 1984.
Some of Amory’s many other achievements
include developing many of the conceptual & technical
ideas for the now-multi-billion-dollar "negawatt"
(electric end-use efficiency) industry, design of the
Hypercar (a 99-mpg SUV boasting ultra-light
construction, low-drag design, and hybrid-electric
drive), and leading the formulation of the first
comprehensive and profitable synthesis of how to
eliminate U.S. oil dependence entitled Winning The Oil
Endgame.
Far from resting on his laurels, Amory’s
current project is Reinventing Fire. As Amory himself
describes it: “Reinventing Fire is a ‘grand synthesis’
that will systematically combine decades of intellectual
capital, both ours and others’, into a practical map of
the road beyond fossil fuels—then help the world head
down that road with deliberate speed; Integrating the
latest developments that make getting off oil and coal
even more attractive than we thought five years ago,
Reinventing Fire weaves together a resilient,
multi-layered web of connected, efficient, renewable
replacements for fossil fuel.”
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2009 Recipient: Carol
Tombari |
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Carol Tombari
Manager, Stakeholder Relations, National
Renewable Energy Laboratory
 CRES applauds Carol
Tombari’s contributions and dedication to the field of renewable
energy and energy efficiency. We are also very proud to have her as
an active member of CRES where she is this year’s co-chair of the
Colorado Renewable Energy Conference
Carol Tombari is the
Manager of Stakeholder Relations at the U.S. Department of Energy’s
(DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), where she works on
electric utility and economic development issues.
Prior to joining NREL’s Public Relations office, she directed
the laboratory’s State and Local Initiatives office.
Ms. Tombari previously was self-employed as
president of Mountain Energy Consultation, specializing in public
policy and programs related to energy efficiency, renewable energy,
and the environmental impacts of energy use.
In this capacity, Ms. Tombari led three delegations of State
Energy Officials to the People’s Republic of China, to discuss public policies to
facilitate the development of renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Ms. Tombari has specialized in energy and
environmental policy and programs for more than twenty-five years. She
directed the State of
Texas’
energy efficiency and renewable energy programs for a decade.
She worked for two Texas governors, served as an electric
utility regulator, and was natural resources advisor to the lieutenant
governor. She was a founder of the National Association of State
Energy Officials; chaired an advisory committee to Congress on
renewable energy joint ventures; and was appointed to by the Secretary
of Energy to DOE’s State Energy Advisory Board.
Ms. Tombari’s educational credentials include a
master’s degree in public affairs and an undergraduate degree in
geography.
She is the
author of
Power of the People:
America’s New Electricity Choices (Fulcrum Publishing).
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2008 Recipient:
Governor Bill Ritter |
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CRES salutes Bill Ritter for
his foresight and action on the
New Energy Economy, and looks forward to working with him
and his staff over the rest of his term as Colorado's Governor!
Bill
Ritter won election as Colorado's Governor in 2006, and his promise
of a "New Energy Economy" was a major component of his campaign.
His first month in office brought a
flurry of new laws & policies in support of the New Energy Economy:
doubling the Renewable Energy Standards set by Amendment 37, mapping
the energy resources available throughout Colorado, greatly
expanding the Governor's Energy Office, taking bold steps to address
Climate Change, and much more.
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2007 Recipient: Becky
Campbell-Howe |
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Colorado Renewable Energy Society is proud to present its 2007
"Larson Notari Award" (for significant contributions to the field of
renewable energy, energy efficiency, and sustainable buildings) to
Becky Campbell-Howe.
Becky is Director of Operations for the American
Solar Energy Society (CRES's parent organization). She is ASES’
webmaster, equipment and software buyer, network administrator,
database programmer and meeting planner.
She has been involved in the planning and organization of 14 of the
last 15 National Solar Energy Conferences. She organized ASES’ first
three National Solar Tours, beginning in 1996. In addition to her
work for ASES, she has organized several Colorado Renewable Energy
Conferences, and the first and second Colorado Wind and Distributed
Energy Conferences for the Colorado Governor’s Office of Energy
Management and Conservation. Becky also worked as Assistant to the
Secretary of the International Energy Agency’s Wind RD&D Executive
Committee and worked in Human Resources at the National Center for
Atmospheric Research.
 When
Becky first heard about receiving the Larson Notari award, she "fell
out of my chair." The fact that the award is named after two of her
personal heroes -- CRES co-founders Ron Larson and Paul Notari --
makes receiving it that much more special.
Becky Campbell-Howe has been a pillar of professionalism and
strength at the American Solar Energy Society. Often working behind
the scenes, Becky has quietly but significantly contributed to the
progress of renewable energy development and to the Society’s
mission. We all gain because of her dedication and talent. |
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2006 Recipient:
John Avenson |
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John Avenson stands next to the
PV system on the roof of his house in Westminster. |
 The
Colorado Renewable Energy Society recognizes John Avenson’s
contributions to the field of energy efficiency, renewable energy,
and sustainable buildings in Colorado with the 2006 Larson-Notari
Award.
(Read more about the
Larson-Notari award.)
John Avenson won this recognition
from his peers because of his ongoing commitment to advance the
cause of solar energy. Although he does not work in the field,
Avenson does more public outreach and education than almost anyone
else in Colorado. For example, he took a week vacation from his day
job so that he could volunteer for the ASES Solar 2006 Conference in
Denver.
For several years now, the Avenson
house in Westminster has been the most popular on the Colorado Tour
of Solar Homes. Avenson goes out into the community and recruits
different organizations to visit his home and see how solar energy
works. Every item in the house that is energy efficient is neatly
labeled so that people know all the little things that can be done.
He even sends out 'press releases' when he adds something new!
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John
Avenson hung the 2006 Larson-Notari Award plaque on the wall
next to the computer than controls energy consumption in his
home. |
Avenson said at the Solar 2006
Conference after receiving the award, “I hung the award plaque in my
front hall next to the house energy monitor computer.”
This computer monitors the house
temperature at each window, sun irradiance, light switches (on or
off), motion sensors, and controls the up-down motor on the window
shades. The system automatically makes sure that the sun does not
interfere with the entertainment system, the shades hold the heat in
during winter or out during summer, and no lights are needlessly on.
Avenson posts the output of his PV
system online.
http://view2.fatspaniel.net/FST/Portal/SolSource/
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2005
Recipients : Rick Gilliam & Mark Fitzgerald |
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| Rick Gilliam speaks at the
CRES 2004 Conference about the upcoming election to pass Amendment
37 |
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Photo: Dave Bowden |
Rick Gilliam
Rick Gilliam is an advocate for effective clean energy
policies and practices throughout the West. He has been the lead
environmental representative for the renewable portfolio standards (RPS)
in Arizona and Nevada, and drafted RPS legislation in Utah and Colorado.
He was the primary author of Colorado Amendment 37, which was the
renewable energy ballot initiative passed by the voters in November
2004. He is also a minority principal in the Hopi Solar Enterprise –
NativeSUN.
Gilliam has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical
Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York and a
Masters of Environmental Policy and Management from the University of
Denver. His spent six years as an expert witness with the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission and 12 years as director of revenue requirements
for Public Service Company of Colorado. In 1994, Gilliam joined the Land
and Water Fund, now known as
Western Resource
Advocates, a nonprofit conservation law and policy center
promoting sustainable energy development and water use in a six state
region of the interior West. |
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| Mark Fitzgerald had a
life-long service to the advancement of solar energy. |
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Mark
Fitzgerald
Mark C. Fitzgerald was executive director of the
Institute for Sustainable Power, Inc.
(ISP), a nonprofit organization in Highlands Ranch that develops and
implements global training accreditation and practitioner certification
standards for renewable energy professionals. ISP is currently active in
developing accreditation and certification frameworks in 12 countries
and several American Indian Nations.
Fitzgerald was the founding publisher and editor of PV
International magazine and served as executive director of the PV
Information and Education Association in the 1980s. He worked for
several solar energy companies and government agencies that are active
in energy, including the U.S. National Center for Appropriate Technology
in Butte, Montana, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in
Golden.
Fitzgerald was the U.S. representative to the
International Energy Agency’s Photovoltaic Power Systems Task 9 Expert
Working Group on Photovoltaics in Developing Countries. He served on the
ANSI review committee for the ISO/IEC-17024 Standard for Accrediting.
And he served on the advisory board of the American Solar Energy
Society’s Solar Today magazine. He was also the author of more than 25
articles for both technical and popular publications.
Fitzgerald received an undergraduate degree in biology
from the University of Arizona, Tucson; a Master of Arts Degree in
Energy and Environmental Planning from Governors State University in
Illinois; and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Planning and Design from
the University of Colorado. Over the years, Mark pursued a hobby in
compiling hundreds of hours of interviews of solar pioneers. This
footage is being compiled into a video presentation on solar pioneers in
August at the 2005 Solar World Congress in Orlando, Florida. |
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| The CRES board issues an award annually to
individuals who contribute to advancing renewable energy and
energy efficiency in Colorado in the name of CRES founders
Ronal Larson and Paul Notari. |
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About the Award
The Board of Directors of the Colorado Renewable
Energy Society established the Larson-Notari Award in 2005 to
recognize individual contributions to renewable energy and energy
efficiency. Ronal Larson and
Paul Notari are cofounders of CRES.
Ronal
Larson
Dr. Ronal Larson is a retired professor of
electrical engineering Georgia Tech and former branch chief and
principal scientist at the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI), now
the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden. He
received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
His U.S. solar energy activities began in 1973 as a
Congressional Fellow when he worked on the first two solar bills
passed by Congress. His fellowship continued for an extra year with
the now disbanded Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.
In 2005 Dr. Larson serves as chair-elect of the
American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and will serve as chair in 2006.
He is chair of the ASES Strategic Planning Committee and serves on
five other ASES Committees. He was a co-editor of ASES white papers
on the economics of renewables and on renewable hydrogen, and an MIT
book on commercialization of solar thermal systems. For its first
eight years of existence he served as CRES secretary, and he still
chairs the CRES Committee on State Regulatory and Legislative Issues.
He is owner of a “zero-energy” home that was built around the
University of Colorado’s 2002 award-winning Solar Decathlon House. He
is also active in preparing for the 2006 ASES Conference in Denver.
Dr. Larson’s international work is equally
impressive. Starting in 1996, Dr. Larson served for seven years as
the volunteer coordinator of the “stoves” Internet list. His stoves
and international interests grew out of leading a U.S. Agency for
International Development project in Sudan in the early 1980s. That
activity in turn grew out of being the principal author (while at
SERI) of the U.S. National Paper for the United Nations Conference on
New and Renewable Sources of Energy held in Nairobi, Kenya in 1981.
As president of his own consulting firm, he has worked on solar and
stoves projects in Brazil at the 1992 Rio Conference, Sweden,
Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Kyrgyzstan, and South Africa at the 2002
Johannesburg World Summit for Sustainable Development.
Paul Notari
Paul Notari heads a small firm, SciTech
Communications, that publishes technical documents devoted primarily
to renewable energy. He was the editor and publisher of CRES News, the
monthly newsletter of the Colorado Renewable Energy Society until 2010. In 1996
he, along with Dr. Ronal Larson, founded the Colorado Renewable Energy
Society (CRES) and served on the CRES Board of Directors until 2003.
From 1979 to 1992 Notari worked for SERI as manager
of technical information programs. He served on the Board of Directors
of the American Solar Energy Society from 1981 through 1992, and in
1990 and 1991 was elected chair. In 2000 he was named an ASES fellow.
In early 2005 he was reelected to the ASES Board of Directors, where
he serves as chair of its Renewable Fuels and Transportation Division.
From 1952 until 1979, Mr. Notari held positions as
director of publications for the American Water Works Association,
director of communications for the Computer and Business Equipment
Manufacturers Association, and manager of publications and training
for Motorola, Inc. He also served three years as a guest professor in
the Business School of Northwestern University. He served in the U.S.
Navy from 1944 to 1946; obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in
Physics from DePaul University in 1952 and a Master of Science Degree
in Business from Rollins College in 1967. Notari is listed in Who's
Who in America. |
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