| Getting Green Done: Auden Schendler at Daniels |
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| Written by Kara S. |
| Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:55 |
 Wednesday, April 1st, 12:00 - 2:00 PM, Marcus CommonsKeynote Address: Getting Green Done with Auden Schendler, Director of Sustainability, Aspen Skiing Company Event Description: If sustainability were quick and easy—as many consultants suggest—we'd have done it by now. But it's not. It's more like trench warfare than surgery. Even though everyone's talking green, global carbon dioxide emissions are climbing, and climate scientists tell us we have under a decade to solve the problem. What matters? What's fluff? How do we know? It's time to make stuff happen, and to do that, we need fewer visionaries, and more grunts. Auden Schendler is Executive Director of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company. He worked previously in corporate sustainability at Rocky Mountain Institute. Auden has been a trailer insulator, burger flipper, ambulance medic, Outward Bound instructor, high school math and English teacher, freelance writer, and Forest Service goose nest island builder. An avid outdoorsman, Auden has climbed Denali, North America's highest peak, and kayaked the Grand Canyon in winter. His writing has been published in Harvard Business Review, the L.A. Times, Rock and Ice, and Salon.com, among other places. In 2006, Auden was named a global warming innovator by Time magazine. His book: Getting Green Done: Hard Truths and Real Solutions from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution will be published in March, 2009. He lives in Basalt, Colorado with his wife Ellen and their children Willa and Elias. |
