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To empower our community to conserve natural resources.
Vision statement
A thriving community that understands the finite nature of natural resources and acts to conserve them.
Core Values
- Collaboration
- Global impact via local action
- Individual engagement is the cornerstone of conservation
- Stewardship of the organization’s resources
- Practice what we preach
- We engage individuals by responding to their own unique needs and goals.
- We offer information and programs across the full spectrum of natural resources conservation opportunities.
- We provide a continuum of opportunities and encourage individuals to grow from entry level actions to become conservation leaders within our community.
- We work within Boulder County in order to provide local models for replication throughout Colorado and beyond through innovation and success.
- We measure our success both in terms of individuals engaged and natural resources conserved (outputs and outcomes).
- We annually review our strategic plan and community needs to ensure a sustainable and relevant future for our organization.
The Center for ReSource Conservation, formerly the Boulder Energy Conservation Center (BECC), was founded in 1976 by a group of community-minded citizens seeking ways to help reduce our dependence on non-renewable resources. The organization has since developed extensive expertise in the areas of green building, renewable energy, energy efficiency, waste reduction, and water conservation and sustainable living. We share practical solutions for environmental living through print and on-line communications materials, direct services, events, workshops, demonstration projects, tours, and walk-in/email/phone requests for information. Our goal is to tackle resource conservation issues close to home, provide accessible and affordable conservation solutions, and reduce the negative environmental impacts associated with non-sustainable practices. The Center for ReSource Conservation’s objective is to provide programs and services that empower individuals to turn natural resource conservation beliefs into action in their daily lives.
The residents of Colorado are committed to leaving the legacy of a healthy, sustainable community, society, and planet to future generations. The CRC addresses this need by providing individuals with the solutions, the products, and the services that make sustainable choices not just manageable, but comfortable, practical, profitable and with the education to allow the impact to continue.
Each year, the CRC empowers more than 30,000 individuals to live a more sustainable life. The CRC reaches out to and engages these individuals through programming in its energy, water, and waste divisions:
CRC’s Energy Division promotes energy conservation, energy efficiency and renewable energy. This includes residential energy advising, hosting educational seminars, and organizing the annual Boulder County Tour of Sustainable Homes. The energy division’s ReNew Our Schools program promotes energy education and conservation in local schools, granting solar electric systems to select schools each year.
CRC’s Water Division helps residents and businesses reduce water consumption by encouraging the efficient use of water. The Slow the Flow Colorado Program offers free sprinkler inspections and indoor water evaluations to customers of partner water providers. The Garden-In-A-Box Program sells professionally-designed, pre-planned xeric gardens to make xeriscaping easy. Free Water-Wise Landscape Seminars in April cover xeriscaping and sustainable landscaping topics. Each year, the xeric garden program helps to convert 40,000 square feet of high-water-use landscape to xeriscape.
CRC’s ReSource Division manages two salvage yards (in Boulder and Fort Collins) that accept donations and sell reclaimed building materials to the public. Promoting waste reduction through innovative landfill diversion programs, ReSource sells these reclaimed materials at 50%–90% below retail cost. Both ReSource Yards serve as drop-off locations for homeowners and contractors. Located in Boulder, the ReSource Tool Library is open daily and lets members borrow from a diverse tool inventory at affordable rates. The ReSource Tool Library also offers Tool School classes. Professionals at ReSource Deconstruction Services facilitate the sustainable practice of carefully dismantling a structure, while preserving the structure’s embodied energy and yielding materials for reuse. WoodWorks sells affordable, high quality wood products produced from salvaged materials.
The CRC’s 2008 operating budget was $1,509,413. During 2007, the CRC’s net operating revenues exceeded expenditures by $46,346.
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The CRC staff consists of 14 full-time, six part-time employees at the CRC Spruce St. office, and ReSource yards in Boulder and Fort Collins, and 25 seasonal employees. In addition, the CRC engages the services of hundreds of volunteers and interns. The CRC’s senior staff consists of:
| Keith Frausto, Executive Director | Doug Yetman, Development Director |
| Cliff Clusin, Business Operations Director | Brad Queen, Energy Division Director |
| Jeff Woodward, Water Division Director | Shaun LaBarre, ReSource Director |
