Volunteers are the face of ASES at Solar 2010

Solar 2010 #2

Wednesday  May 19th, Phoenix, Arizona.  Solar 2010 will be  my second consecutive American Solar Energy Society (ASES) National Conference and this year I am serving as a conference volunteer.  Each year, ASES chooses a different host city for the national conference.  This year Phoenix hosts the conference, next year Solar 2011 will take place in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Volunteering is a great way to both participate and help a nonprofit organization fulfill its mission.  In exchange for full conference access I helped stuff promotional material in the conference and public day tote bags yesterday and today and tomorrow I will assist by greeting conference attendees, providing Solar 2010 #1directions, orientation and information, and help assure smooth execution of conference sessions by checking badges at the door of sessions of my choice (in my case 2 technical sessions and a forum on net-zero building project lessons) and providing audiovisual support. Ironically, the solar conference is sharing the Phoenix convention center this week with a convention of the American Oil Chemists’ Society (AOCS).  Kidding amongst the volunteers yesterday included the addition of recruitment of AOCS attendees to attend the solar conference instead!  Altogether I will be donating 16 hours of the conference assisting as a volunteer and the rest of the time I am free to attend, explore and network.

Solar 2010 #3Established in 1954, the American Solar Energy Society is the nation’s  leading association of solar professionals & advocates.  The mission of ASES is to inspire an era of energy innovation and speed the transition to a sustainable energy economy and to advance education, research and policy.  ASES leads national efforts to increase the use of solar energy, energy efficiency and other sustainable technologies in the U.S. The society publishes the award-winning SOLAR TODAY magazine, organizes and presents the ASES National Solar Conference and leads the ASES National Solar Tour with Show Me Solar providing the local tour events for Columbia and St. Louis, Missouri.

Solar 2010 #4 Those familiar with Show Me Solar’s mission recognize the overlap with the mission of the American Solar Energy Society.  As a result this year Show Me Solar initiated a formal petition to become an official chapter of the American Solar Energy Society.  Chapter status will plug Show Me Solar into the national scene and provide representation for the organization within ASES.  The petition will require signatures in support of chapter status from 20 members of ASES.  Show Me Solar will pledge to maintain a minimum of 10% membership in ASES amongst Show Me Solar’s membership.  I will be reviewing all the details of chapter hood in ASES with staff of ASES this week and will prepare a full report to Show Me Solar’s board of directors for our next board meeting this May 26th.  As always, members of Show Me Solar are welcome to participate in board meetings.  The meetings are rather dry but if you see agenda items you would like to learn more about and weigh in with your comments such as the question of ASES chapter status for Show Me Solar feel free to sign on to participate.  Show Me Solar board meetings are currently scheduled online along with our live online seminars up to 7 days in advance at our meeting space at https://my.dimdim.com/showmesolar/  Bookmark the webpage for future reference!

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