ES keynote speaker to focus on meaningful action
Auden Schendler, a leading voice and critic on corporate sustainability, will deliver this fall’s Environmental Studies Program keynote speech at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, in Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall.
Titled “Great Fear, Great Hope: Meaningful Action in a Climate-Changed World,” the talk is free and open to the public. Prior to the presentation, a number of local environmental and conservation groups, including Sustainable Saratoga, Saratoga PLAN, Wilton Wildlife Park and Preserve, and Hudson River Crossing Park, among others, will have information tables set up in the Class of 1967 Lobby outside of Gannett Auditorium.
Schendler focuses on what businesses and individuals can do that will have a real effect on climate change. He has written extensively about sustainable business practices and is the author of Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution.
His writing has been published in Harvard Business Review, the L.A. Times, Slate, Scientific American, Atlantic.com, Huffington Post, and Salon.com and other media, and his work has been covered in Outside, Fast Company, Travel and Leisure and BusinessWeek.In 2006, Schendler 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. He has testified to congress on the impacts of climate change and speaks widely on sustainability.
He is vice president of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Co. and worked previously in corporate sustainability at Rocky Mountain Institute.
