Congressman Earl Blumenauer (OR) has represented Oregon's Third Congressional District since 1996. He is the Founder of House Livable Communities Task Force. Mr. Blumenauer serves on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and as a member of the International Relations Committee. He is a strong and creative voice both at home and abroad for the environment, sustainable development, and economic opportunity.

Congressman Blumenauer's reforms and innovative accomplishments over the years have helped his hometown of Portland, Oregon gain an international reputation as a livable community. He is a strong and creative voice both at home and abroad for the environment, sustainable development, and economic opportunity.

http://blumenauer.house.gov/

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Anne Korin , Director
Set America Free Coalition

Anne Korin is co-director of IAGS and editor of Energy Security and the director of the Set America Free Coalition. Korin focuses on energy supply vulnerabilities, OPEC, Africa , maritime terrorism, energy security, energy strategies and technological innovation. She appears in the media frequently and has written articles for Foreign Affairs, Commentary Magazine, and the Journal of International Security Affairs. Ms. Korin has advised myriad high tech companies, and has worked on a wide variety of projects for corporations including Exxon International (Esso,) KPMG, and Goldman Sachs. Her education includes engineering degree in computer science from Johns Hopkins University and work towards a doctorate at Stanford University.

Set America Free Coalition brings together prominent individuals and non-profit organizations concerned about the security and economic implications of America’s growing dependence on foreign oil. The coalition, organized by the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS), promotes a blueprint which spells out practical ways in which real progress toward energy security can be made over the next several years.

www.setamericafree.org

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Jeff Rickert
Executive Director, The Apollo Alliance

The Apollo Alliance is a two year old coalition of leaders, communities and organizations, representing sectors including labor, business, environmental rural, and urban.   Over 17 major unions have endorsed Apollo’s call for a national “moon mission” program on clean energy, along with major environmental groups such as the Sierra Club and the NRDC.

www.apolloalliance.org

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Randy Udall

Executive Director

Community Office for Resource Efficiency
(CORE)

CORE is a nonprofit organization that promotes renewable energy, energy efficiency and green building in western Colorado and beyond.   Randy Udall has been CORE's Director since the organization began operations in 1994.

CORE's partnerships with individuals, governments, and businesses (which includes three local utilities) has led to a remarkable series of accomplishments. Their renewable energy and energy efficiency programs will keep 800 million pounds of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere over the next 20 years.  For example, Holy Cross Energy, one of CORE's utility partners, is buying more wind power than ANY of the nation's other 929 rural electric utilities, thanks to an innovative green pricing program that CORE promotes.  Additionally, Aspen Municipal Electric and Glenwood Springs Electric System, CORE's two other utility partners, rank in the top five of the nation's 2,000 municipal utilities for the percentages of wind power that they purchase.

In 1998, CORE started the nation's first "solar production incentive" program, which pays local residents $2.00/watt for installing a solar photovoltaic system.  (Up to $6,000 per customer).  Incentives are also available for installing solar hot water systems and purchasing Energy Star appliances.

In 2000, we helped start the world's first Renewable Energy Mitigation Program (REMP), which has raised $2,500,000 over the last three years.  This money is used to fund various grant programs to lower carbon emissions in the Roaring Fork Valley .

CORE also provides community energy education through forums, presentations, and newspaper and magazine articles. Working closely with government entities, we develop public policy favoring sustainable energy solutions. 

www.aspencore.org

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Senator Ken Gordon
Colorado Senate Majority Leader

Ken Gordon has served in the Colorado Assembly since 1992 first as a representative and since 2000 as a State Senator for District 35.

www.kengordon.com/index.asp

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Kelly Nordini
Cofounder of Denver Transit Alliance
Chief of Staff, Colorado House Majority

Kelly Nordini is a former co-founder of the Transit Alliance and a veteran campaign organizer. Transit Alliance is a non-profit coalition of 42 local governments, business associations and citizen groups promoting expanded rail and bus transit in the Denver Metro region. Her coalition building and public education efforts at the Transit Alliance helped in the successful approval of the $4.2 billion dollar bond for FastTracks in the Denver Metro Area.

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Nathan Glasgow
Rocky Mountain Institute

Nathan Glasgow is special aide to Rocky Mountain Institute CEO Amory Lovins and a consultant advising RMI clients in the energy, commercial, and industrial sectors. He received his bachelors degree in Human Biology from Stanford and his masters degree in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has experience in green building, environmental science, and information technology.

He is a coauthor of RMI's Winning the Oil Endgame, which details how the United States —led by business for profit—can revitalize its economy and transition away from oil dependence within a few decades. He performed extensive modeling for the implementation and business-case sections of the report, including construction of the light-vehicle cohort model.

www.rmi.org

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