COSEIA 2015 Solar Power Colorado Conference
COSEIA’s annual gathering is the year’s largest business-to-business opportunity for networking with solar industry executives, identifying new market opportunities, gaining insight into the latest thinking on policy and technology, and learning about exciting new solar products at the Expo Hall.
Overview and Update of Boulder Municipalization Effort
The CU Energy Club will be hosting Dr. Zane Selvans, Research and Policy Director at Clean Energy Action, and Mark Jaffe of the Denver Post for an information session and discussion of Boulder’s ongoing municipalization of electric services in the city. Learn what electric municipalization is, what has happened so far in Boulder, what is to come and how municipalization may affect you.
Colorado Gives Day
Thanks to everyone who contributed last year! Clean Energy Action was the recipient of a $5,000 1st Bank bonus due to your generosity. We are eligible again if we exceed last year’s commitments. Please be as generous as you can and we may receive an even larger bonus.
KXL Action: Who Will Bennet Side With - The Kochs or Coloradans?
Despite understanding the severity of the climate crisis, reports say Bennet is planning to vote for the pipeline! He has a very serious choice to make: Will he be a climate hero or a climate criminal? Voting for the pipeline is nothing short of lighting the fuse on a carbon bomb that will explode in our children’s faces. Please join us on Monday at noon at his office to tell him to be on the rights side of history – Reject the KXL Pipeline!
How to Generate a Renewable Energy Revolution
Join our allies for a community conversation with renewable energy and public utility expert S. David Freeman, experienced in running large utilities and directing federal, regional and local energy policies for more than four decades.
A Discussion on Xcel's 2015 Rate Increase Request
Please Join the Members of Empower Our Future for a discussion between Alice K. Jackson, Xcel, Regional Vice President for Rates and Regulatory Affairs & Leslie Glustrom, Clean Energy Action Founder & Long-Time PUC Citizen Intervenor.
Rainforest Action Network's Changing the Course
The Rainforest Action Network will be holding a two-day climate leadership summit as part of a major new project called Change the Course. Climate networks from around the region will be coming to Denver for a two-day gathering that includes collective visioning, strategic planning, and training for trainers. Hope you can join us!
Legal Battle for Municipalization
Please join the Members of Empower Our Future for a conversation about the legal process for municipalization. This should be an informative night. Light refreshments will be served at 6:30 pm. We hope to see you there.
Second Annual Feast of Fermentation
Support Boulder Food Rescue while enjoying a wonderful night full of fermented food and beverages.
High Energy at Chautauqua Ranger Cottage
oin us for a fun, hand-on demonstration about energy and nature. Energy is the biggest link between everything we do and the natural systems of which we are a part! Explore the amazing world of energy with fun and educational demonstrations and activities at Chautauqua Ranger Cottage.
Energy Smart Energy Efficient Event
Ever wonder how much energy it really takes to power light bulbs, a stereo, or make popcorn?! Want to save money and make your home more comfortable? Hop on the energy bike and find out!
Katharine Hayoe: Climate Change with Mind & Heart
Join the Colorado Chautauqua Association for their upcoming climate event.
Citizen Power Training
Clean Energy Action is bringing together Boulder students and community members to teach skills and tools to advocate for the clean energy market. This two-hour training will teach attendees how to craft their public narrative, set up meetings with their state legislators, and include a discussion of solutions to improve the state’s deficient energy market.
Let it Shine
Together with the Colorado Renewable Energy Society, Boulder County Chapter we welcome John Perlin presenting his latest work: Let It Shine: The 6000-Year Story of Solar Energy.
350.org Climate Solutions Social Hour
Hashing out our biggest ideas over perogies, friends, and cold drinks? Yes, yes and yes! We’ve officially decided to keep the social hour at the Biergarten. Because we love it there and we know you do, too.
Clean Energy Action @ Arise
Clean Energy Action will be at Solutions Village with our Energy Bike as well as teaching our Citizen Power Training at Arise Music Festival. Join us for a weekend of music, workshops, art, films and more.
Boulder Energy Challenge Community Pitch Night
Join the City of Boulder in congratulating the finalists for the Boulder Energy Challenge while they present their projects to the community.
Xcel's Covering Their...Assets
Join us for a discussion about Xcel’s new depreciation, decommissioning, and revenue decoupling proposal and how it could have wide reaching implications for your rates, renewable energy and energy efficiency in Colorado.
Clean Energy Action @ Switch
Ten speakers. Five minutes. Twenty slides, auto-advanced every fifteen seconds. That’s switch~. Based on the same rapid-fire format that helped make TedX and Ignite Boulder popular, switch~ is a chance for people with great ideas about energy and sustainability to share their thoughts.
PUC Net-Metering Workshop
The Public Utilities Commission is hosting the first of three workshops before the Commissioners regarding Xcel’s proposal to drastically reduce the credit that solar costumers receive for their power production.
Free Showing of Dear Governor Hickenlooper
The event will feature well-known local and regional musicians playing before the 68 minute DGH film for approximately 45 minutes, then show the movie. The subsequent Q&A panel discussion would last for about 20-30 minutes and other musicians would play afterwards with dancing and general merriment until closing time. Also present will be volunteers from various environmental and anti-fracking non-profit, grass roots organizations who will be gathering signatures for the ballot initatives, as well as t-shirt sales for Fractivist, tabling by Frack Free Colorado and other supporting organizations.
Boulder CRES Organizing Meeting
The Colorado Renewable Energy Society is creating a Boulder chapter! At their first meeting in Boulder they are looking to get input in how to get this chapter off the ground and how to meet the needs of Boulder community.
Transform Your Environmental Impact
Come learn a fun and innovative way to measure and recognize the value of your environmental footprint and raise funds for the sustainability projects that you believe in!
Citizen Power Training With Special Guest Great March for Climate
Clean Energy Action is bringing together Denver community members, students and the Great March for Climate Change Action to use our momentum for climate action to demand energy policy improvements from our state legislators. This two-hour training will teach attendees the steps to setting up meetings with their state legislators, give participants the opportunity to organize groups for future visits, and allow participants to sign up for legislative visits on the spot.
Great March for Climate Action Rallies Through Colorado
In the spirit of the civil rights marches in the sixties, the Climate March is a non-profit mobile community of climate-concerned volunteers who are marching from Los Angeles to Washington DC in 2014 to raise awareness for the urgent need to act on climate change and will be marching through Colorado during the month of June. Among other activities, we will be holding a rally in Colorado Springs (June 10th) and Denver (June 16th)!
Sustainable Transportation Speakeasy
Join us for a balmy mid-summer evening discussion of what it’s going to take for Boulder’s transportation system to meet the city’s Climate Commitment (an 80% reduction in emissions by 2050). Our speaker will be none other than Boulder’s own former Mayor and County Commissioner, Will Toor, who will present a new Boulder-specific look at climate neutral transportation from the Transportation program at the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project.
Plan-Boulder County Forum
Join PLAN-Boulder for a forum on the development of the City of Boulder forming a municipal utility with the City’s Executive Director of Energy Strategy & Electric Utility Development, Heather Bailey and the City Attorney, Tom Carr.
Dear Governor Hickenlooper Film Screening
Dear Governor Hickenlooper educates the public about the dangers of fracking through the eyes of real people: families, gas workers, entrepreneurs, farmers. It provides new science on the health impacts of fracking and asks the question: why permanently poison our air and water, and damage our health, with fracked gas when we could be powered by 100% renewable energy today?
Comment on Extending the Oil and Gas Moratorium
The commissioners are discussing Resolution 2013-55 which would explore extending the moratorium on processing oil and gas development applications in unincorporated Boulder County for an additional 18 months.
Denver Solar Day
Join Clean Energy Action at Denver Solar Day and learn more about the benefits of solar energy from international and local experts who know it best!