Colorado
Harvesting Energy Network Founding Board Members
Wayne
Caldwell
- Chief Financial
Officer for the Monte Vista Cooperative located in Monte Vista, Colorado.
The organization has over 5000 active members and serves an area that
encompasses the entire San Luis Valley. The products sold include hardware
and supplies, farm and light industrial equipment, fertilizer, propane,
refined fuels, feed supplies, seed and chemicals. The organization also
has two grain terminals, two tire service shops and three convenience
stores. Mr. Caldwell is a Colorado native and grew up in the Rocky Ford
area. He attended Colorado State University in Fort Collins and has
a Master's Degree in Business Administration and a current CPA license.
Currently, his organization has plans to install seven 10KW solar voltaic
collectors throughout the San Luis Valley on company facilities.
www.mvcoop.com
Email contact: wcaldwell@mvcoop.com
Craig
Cox - Executive Director of the Interwest Energy Alliance, a non-profit
trade association that represents the nation's leading wind and utility-scale
solar energy companies, bringing them together with regional non-governmental
organizations. Working in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah
and Wyoming, Interwest performs outreach and representational activities
and seeks to build collaborative, consensus-based approaches to state
policies that lead to new renewable project and transmission development
throughout the West.
Contact information:
www.interwest.org
Interwest Energy Alliance
P.O. Box 272 Conifer, Colorado 80433
303-679-9331
Email contact: cox@interwest.org
Mark
Glauth - Research Associate for the Sustainable Energy Solutions
group at Northern Arizona University, owner of R3, and a Board member
of the Teller-Park Conservation District where he works with CACD in
renewable energy and resource concerns. R3 Designs and Develops instrumentation.
Mark is also involved with his family in the operation of Pinehurst
ranch. Mark's education is in Physics & Engineering. He is a former
Naval Aviator and grew up in the mountains of Colorado raising cattle.
Both of Mark's parents are Colorado Natives.
Email contact: mglauth@gmail.com
Brian
Greenman - Principal of Greenman Financial Advisors, LLC which provides
financial solutions for wind energy development projects. Our financial
advisory service offerings include: project economic feasibility studies
strategic planning deal structuring securing co-development partners
securing project finance and investors financial oversight during development
and construction.
303.204.6850
www.greenmanfinancial.com
Email contact: brian@greenmanfinancial.com
Chris
McCall - President of Compass Wind, LLC a community-based wind power
developer formed in 2007 to focus on small utility-scale projects. He
is a former Senior Vice President of Fortis Bank/Mees Pierson with over
12 years experience in the financial industry. Chris executed over 25
energy financings while at Fortis and Citigroup and was lead banker
on two award winning wind farm financings that received "Renewables
Deal of the Year" honors in 2002 and 2004. In addition Compass Wind
is comprised of legal, development and transaction specialists that
have been involved in thousands of megawatts of energy financings, including
multiple wind projects. Compass is backed by EBF & Associates, a veteran
power development investor and capital provider based in Minnetonka,
Minnesota.
www.compasswind.com
Email contact: chris.mccall@compasswind.com
Telephone: 877.753.2259
Cell: 203.918.0561
Fax: 303.957.1515
Brent
Orr - Operates a farm in Yuma County near Wray and has worked with
neighboring landowners to develop community wind projects. Based on
his experience negotiating rights of way and land leases for major wind
developers, Brent has formed Cornerstone Transco, an innovative approach
to transmission sighting and landowner compensation. He is a founding
director of FirstFarm Bank in Greeley and was appointed by Governor
Ritter to the Colorado Economic Development Commission.
Email contact: BrentOrr@cox.net
Home Office: 970.332.5000
Mobile/Cell: 970.371.7770
Skype #: 970.372.2273
Advisors
Tony
Frank - Director of Renewable Energy Development for Rocky Mountain
Farmers Union (RMFU), has been involved with renewable energy projects
in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico's rural communities for over four
years. Tony leads renewable energy programs at RMFU to support agriculture
producers and rural communities to develop projects for such resources
as wind, solar, small-hydro, biofuels, carbon sequestration and energy
efficiency technologies. He has recently served on the Colorado Task
Force on Renewable Resource Generation Development Areas and is currently
serving on the Colorado Renewable Energy Development Infrastructure
Advisory Board.Previously, Tony helped launch CHEN while employed at
Colorado Working Landscapes. Earlier, he worked at the Colorado Department
of Agriculture's Resource Analysis Section from 1995-1998 where he supported
the Agricultural Lands Task Force's development of recommendations to
preserve agriculture, researched land use policies, and developed a
method for measuring the net irrigation requirements for each Colorado
county.
Contact:
www.rmfu.org
www.homegrownpower.net
Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Cooperative Development Center
5655 S. Yosemite St., Suite 400
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
303-283-3532
Fax: 303-752-5810
Email contact: tony.frank@co-ops.org
Eric
Lane - Since 2006, Eric Lane has served as the director for the
Conservation Services Division (CSD) of the Colorado Department of Agriculture.
The CSD comprises four programs: Biological Pest Control (Palisade Insectary),
Colorado State Conservation Board (conservation districts), Groundwater
Protection, and Noxious Weed Management. Working together, these program
provide services to all Colorado's landowners, with an emphasis on the
stewardship of natural resources on farms and ranches. Eric provides
leadership and oversight to these programs and helps to lead Department
initiatives related to climate change, carbon sequestration, greening
government, and renewable energy. He has an M.S. in Natural Resource
Policy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a B.A. in Biology
from Swarthmore College
www.colorado.gov/cs
Director, Conservation Services Division Colorado Department of Agriculture
700 Kipling Street, Suite 4000
Lakewood, CO 80215-8000
303.239.4182
Email contact: eric.lane@ag.state.co.us
Jeff
Lyng
Renewable Energy Program Manager
Governor's Energy Office
1580 Logan Street, Suite 100
Denver, CO 80203
303.866.2264
Email Contact: jeff.lyng@state.co.us
Bob
Mailander - Born and raised on his family's farm in Eastern Colorado
near Holyoke. After finishing college at Regis College with a degree
in accounting, Bob served two years with the Peace Corps in Ivory Coast,
West Africa. He returned to Colorado and began a farming career in Holyoke
raising irrigated wheat, corn and beans. Bob has served on statewide
boards of the Ground Water Commission, the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union
and the State Land Board. In 1997 he became the Director of the Rocky
Mountain Farmers Union Cooperative Development Center. In September
2007, Bob joined the Governor's Energy Office as the Regional Representative
for the Eastern Plains and the San Luis Valley. He has many years of
experience with community economic development and especially renewable
energy development.
www.colorado.gov/energy
Governor's Energy Office
1580 Logan Street, Suite 100
Denver, CO 80203
303.866.2100
Email contact: robert.mailander@state.co.us
Chad McConathy
Office of Economic Development and International Trade
Manager of Communications and External Affairs
1625 Broadway, Suite 2700
Denver, CO 80202
303.892.3840
303.892.3848 Fax
Email contact: chad.mcconathy@state.co.us
Irene
Shonle
CSU Extension
County Director - Gilpin County
230 Norton Drive
Black Hawk, Colorado 80422
303.582.9106
303.582.5062 Fax
Email contact: Irene.Shonle@colostate.edu
Staff
John
Covert
Executive Director
John has served as the executive director of Colorado Working Landscapes
since its inception, and has been the driving force behind the creation
of CHEN. John grew up on an Idaho farm where his family's farm produces
a variety of seed crops. He has a degree in architecture and graduate
work in urban planning. He has been a planner, assistant city manager,
lobbyist, consultant, and community activist. Prior to developing a
small consulting firm, John was an assistant city manager in Colorado
Springs responsible for intergovernmental relations. Most recently,
he has worked with agricultural and rural economic development interests
promoting sensible land use policies and renewable energy development.
www.harvestenergy.org
Colorado Working Landscapes
5655 South Yosemite Street -
Suite 400
Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111
303.283.3524
Email contact: covert@workinglandscapes.com
Rebecca
D. Cantwell
Communications Director
Rebecca has served as Communications Director for Colorado Working Landscapes
since 2006 and has been involved since then in creating CHEN. . She
also re-launched and now edits both Smart Energy Living magazine, a
Colorado consumer magazine on energy efficiency and renewable energy,
and Home Builder magazine. Rebecca covered most of the state's big stories
during 13 years as an award winning reporter and editor at the Rocky
Mountain News, including supervising coverage of the construction of
Denver International Airport and writing about the rise of the Internet
in the 1990s. She went to work at the national magazine Interactive
Week, where she was news editor. She later served as political editor
for the Denver Post, overseeing city, state and national elections including
the 2004 election.. She has degrees from Swarthmore College and Columbia
University.
5655 South Yosemite Street - Suite 400
Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111
303.986.7233
Email contact: cantwell@workinglandscapes.com
Chuck
Holum - Attorney in private legal practice since 1980, initially
in Washington, D.C., and, since 1987, in Denver. He has practiced energy,
environmental, utility and nonprofit law. Chuck has been Rocky Mountain
Farmers Union's corporate counsel since 1992, working on a wide variety
of rural, agricultural and cooperative issues. He has worked for several
years with CWL and CHEN, as well as Farmers Union, on renewable energy
development projects. He is originally from South Dakota, and attended
Yale College and Georgetown Law School.
Email contact: chollum@msn.com
303-316-9416
303-329-8053 - Fax
Jonathan
W. Moore - AICP - President of Sustainable Community Solutions,
Inc., a consulting business focusing on community-based solutions related
to sustainable agriculture, land use, conservation and renewable energy.
Prior to starting his own consulting business, Jonathan served as the
Director of Land Protection/Operations for Colorado Open Lands, a Statewide,
nonprofit 501(C)3, conservation organization (www.coloradoopenlands.org)
(10-years). Under his leadership, Jonathan coordinated the organization's
land protection programs, including the Community Conservation Program,
the Landowner Assistance Program, the Government Assistance Program
and the Land Protection Fellowship Program. Jonathan facilitated conservation
real estate projects including agricultural and open space easements,
1031 tax-free exchanges, donations, bargain sales, and conservation
development projects with private landowners, nonprofit groups, government
agencies, and communities. Prior to joining COL, Jonathan worked for
over 16 years both publicly and privately on land planning/development
projects ranging from large-scale site analysis and master planning,
to low density conservation development projects. Jonathan has a Masters
in Community and Regional Planning.
SCS, Inc.
Evergreen, CO
jwmoore0@gmail.com
303.324.2346