Auden Schendler
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ABOUT AUDEN
Auden Schendler is Vice President 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, Slate, Scientific American Earth 3.0, and Salon.com and other media, and his work has been covered in Outside, Fast Company, Travel and Leisure and Businessweek. In 2006, Auden was named a global warming innovator by Time magazine. He has also been named a Wirth Chair “Pioneer of the New Energy Economy” by the University of Colorado, a “Climate Saver” by the EPA, and an E-chievement award winner by the radio show E-town. Auden has testified to congress on the impacts of climate change and speaks widely on sustainability. His book Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution was called “an antidote to greenwash” by NASA’s James Hansen. He lives in Basalt, Colorado with his wife Ellen and their children Willa and Elias.
AUDEN’S WEBSITE
- http://www.gettinggreendone.com/index.html
INTERVIEWS & VIDEOS
Auden Schendler talks about his new book, “Getting Green Done,” and the efforts of the Aspen Skiing Company to be environmentally friendly.
BOOKS LINKS
Getting Green Done, http://www.gettinggreendone.com/reservation.html
If sustainability were quick and easy—as many consultants suggest—we’d have done it by now.
Everyone’s talking green, but global carbon dioxide emissions are climbing, and climate scientists tell us we have under a decade to solve the problem. We need fewer visionaries, and more grunts. It’s time to make stuff happen. Auden Schendler, a sustainability foot soldier with fifteen years in the trenches, shows the way in this witty, human and contrarian book.
Brutally honest and hopeful, Getting Green Done is the first sustainable business book to offer a peek under the hood of the “green” movement, showing what it means to implement climate solutions in the real world. You’ll learn that sustainability is more like trench warfare than surgery—and that we’re going to have to do a lot better than we’ve done if we hope to solve climate change.