CLEAN
ENERGY NOW!
Spring 2002 Energy Summit Speakers
(Sorry, current contact info for these speakers is not available from the Environmental Center.)
Sarah
Brush
Kristen
Jule
Melissa
Payne
Steve
Smith
Kristin
Casper
Patrick
Keegan
Karl
Rábago
Joel
Swisher
Sarah
Creighton
Duncan
Marsh
Kassie
Rorhbach
Mark
Udall
Faith
Gemmill
Peter
Morton
Claudine
Schneider
Randy
Udall
Susan
Innis
David
Orr
Walter
Simpson
Sarah
Zisa
Randy
Udall
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.
From 1982 until joining CORE, Randy Udall was a free-lance writer specializing
in the environment and related scientific topics, including energy efficiency,
green buildings, acid rain, groundwater depletion, energy, clean air,
global warming, and biodiversity. He also edited the quarterly newsletter
of the Rocky Mountain Institute, the world's foremost energy think tank.
As a freelancer, Randy contributed articles to more than a dozen newspapers
and magazines, including: National Wildlife, Audubon, Outside, Sierra,
the Denver Post, and the Los Angeles Times.
