Auden Schendler

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Auden Schendler is an American climate activist, businessman and author of Getting Green Done. [1] He is Senior Vice President of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company. [2]

Schendler has written extensively about the difficulties of enacting sustainability initiatives in the business world and the ineffectiveness of conventional green business practices in the face of climate change. [3] He has been featured in Men's Journal, [4] Businessweek, [5] Outside, [6] Fast Company [7] Harvard Business Review, [8] Slate , [9] and Scientific American's Earth 3.0. [10]

He has published numerous essays on climate change, politics, parenting, and the outdoors [11] and speaks regularly about climate change and what constitutes meaningful action. [12] At Aspen Skiing Company Schendler is part of a team that has developed several innovative utility-scale clean energy systems, including a microhydroelectric plant, a solar photovoltaic farm, and a coal mine methane-to-electricity project, the first of its kind west of the Mississippi.

The bulk of Auden's work is around scale solutions to climate change, primarily through movement building, policy, and power wielding from the outdoor industry. Auden serves on the board of Protect Our Winters and has been a commissioner on Colorado's Air Quality Control Commission and a member of Basalt, Colorado's town council.

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  2. ↑ "/ Company Information / Environmental Commitment / More About Us / Staff Bios". Aspensnowmass.com. Archived from the original on 30 January 2011. Retrieved 2011-03-06.
  3. ↑ "Corporate sustainability is not sustainable". 2 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "Aspen and the End of Snow - MensJournal.com". www.mensjournal.com. Archived from the original on 2014-01-20.
  5. ↑ "Little Green Lies". Bloomberg.com. 29 October 2007.
  6. ↑ "Snow Job?". 4 November 2008.
  7. ↑ "Degree of Difficulty". February 2007.
  8. ↑ Schendler, Auden (2010-07-19). "Climate Change: Too Many Visionaries, Too Few Grunts - Auden Schendler - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review". Harvard Business Review. Blogs.hbr.org. Retrieved 2011-03-06.
  9. ↑ Thompson, Clive (2010-04-19). "Is the planet really warming up? Just ask the corporations that stand to make—or lose—billions because of "climate exposure." - By Clive Thompson - Slate Magazine". Slate. Slate.com. Archived from the original on 25 January 2011. Retrieved 2011-03-06.
  10. ↑ Schendler, Auden (2009-03-18). "How Business Can Influence Climate Policy". Scientific American. doi:10.1038/scientificamericanearth0309-64 . Retrieved 2011-03-06.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. ↑ "Blank". www.gettinggreendone.com. Archived from the original on 2011-05-28.
  12. ↑ "speaking". www.gettinggreendone.com. Archived from the original on 2011-05-28.
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