CEES Profile: Paris Lumb, Volunteer Coordinator & Research Associate Mariah Zebrowski, CEES News Editor-In-Chief Paris Lumb, CEES Volunteer Coordinator and Research Associate, decided that she needed a law degree so that she could actually make changes in the environmental arena, rather than working only within the confines of preexisting policies. Her desire to find new solutions to complex environmental issues was also what led her to CEES. Paris was born and raised in Crested Butte, an isolated mountain town 250 miles southwest of Denver that is known as the Wildflower Capital of Colorado. See Lumb, Page 4   Page4.html../005/Page5.htmlshapeimage_4_link_0shapeimage_4_link_1

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Heading Photos: Top - Colorado House Majority Leader Alice Madden speaks at “Fuel for Life” event.

Bottom - CEES Staff James Lamb, Mariah Zebrowski, and Paris Lumb at the NREL Wind Site.

CEES Launches Energy Justice Focus Dr Lakshman Guruswamy; CEES Director The ambitious new CEES initiative, entitled Energy Justice: Fuel for Life, aspires to create a program of action that addresses one of the most pressing energy problems in the world. In light of the fact that indoor pollution is rarely identified as an energy problem, it is important to state our rationale for this undertaking. Three fateful problems confront our energy-dependent civilization. The well recognized phenomena of global warming and peak oil pose two daunting perils. The energy insecurity caused by these two problems dictates that fossil fuel dependence, as we know it, be replaced by low- or no-carbon sources of energy. By every measure of risk assessment, governments and peoples of the world must act now to deal with this hydra, even though the more cataclysmic consequences will take place in the future. However, any response to global warming or peak oil should not ignore the world’s third energy problem: the needs of the energy-oppressed poor (EOP). This immediate and pressing energy problem is extracting a horrendous toll of death and sickness, especially among women and children. The EOP constitute a full third of the world’s population, including nearly two and a half billion rural and slum dwelling people and a billion and a half humans living on less than a dollar a day. See Energy Justice, Page 5 Page5.htmlshapeimage_5_link_0
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