CORE (Community Office for Resource Efficiency)

Organizational Profile: Community Office on Resource Efficiency (CORE) is a 27 year-old nonprofit organization based in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley. Since 1994, CORE has been helping businesses and residents save energy and cut carbon emissions to mitigate climate change. CORE was created by a group of visionary citizens, local government leaders, and utility providers coming together to conserve natural resources. CORE is an innovative leader, breaking ground with the nation’s first carbon mitigation fee, Colorado’s first wind energy, one of the earliest solar rebate programs in the US and is currently developing a methane capture and destruction project in partnership with local, state and federal agencies.