Energy Consumer Empowerment Workshop – Saturday, January 26 [Denver]

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http://members.greenpeace.org/event/view/4446/Date:January 26th @ 10:01 AMDescription:Join Us for the Energy Consumer Empowerment WorkshopLearn About:    ●How Xcel is Manipulating the System to Drive Up Their Record-Breaking Profits - and Your Electric Bills●Why Your Utility Bill keeps Going Up and What You Can Do About It●How Dirty Energy is Driving Up Our Electric Costs●The Connection Between our Energy Use and Extreme Weather Events●How to Impact Policy that Impacts You and Your Family●How to Lobby Legislators and Other Elected Officials WHEN: Saturday, January 26, 2013, 10am to 4pmWHERE: Colorado Renewable Energy Society Conference Room3245 Eliot St., Denver, CO 80211CONTACT: Email or Call Gina Hardin ginahardin@msn.com, (303) 525-3076Free Event and Lunch FeaturingSenator Morgan CarrollSenator Carroll is the author of Take Back Your Government: A Citizen's Guide to Grassroots Change, a courageous political leader, the Senate Majority Leader and a strong advocate for citizen lobbying at the State Capitol.This interview at this link is a bit out-dated, but it gives you a good sense for who Senator Carroll is and why you will be happy if you get a chance to meet her and hear her speak! The first part is reproduced below.http://www.coloradopols.com/diary/11036/morgan-carroll-interview (December 12, 2009) I got the chance to interview Morgan Carroll yesterday. How someone can be that positive & energetic after years in the sausage factory is amazing. And in the unusual (unique?) category, her entire discussion was about increasing participation in the legislative process by citizens without a word about Morgan Carroll. Not even a word about her specific legislation. Nothing about her at all until I started asking her some questions that drove the conversation that way. So the first 20 minutes or so were about participation - and how legislation is poorer for a lack of any participation by the voters. The average bill gets zero comments from citizen. Most of the rest get one.: Co-Sponsored by:  Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES), Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center; Colorado Interfaith Power & Light, Eco-Justice Ministries; Padres Unidos, Occupy Greeley, Occupy Denver, ProgressNow Colorado, Colorado 350, Clean Energy Action, Rocky Mountain Chapter of Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Wildlife Guardians & Fossil Fuel Free DenverIT’S TIME TO JOIN OUR SPONSORS AND BE THE CHANGE!Please Note: Registrants agree to allow sponsor and co-sponsors to contact them by email or phone. Thank you!Location:3245 Eliot St.Denver, CO 80211

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