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Auden Schendler

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

Auden 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.  He has been featured in Men’s Journal, Businessweek, Outside, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Slate, and Scientific American’s Earth 3.0.

He has published numerous essays on climate change, politics, parenting, and the outdoors. 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

Articles

When snow runoff is low, so are our spirits

By Auden Schendler

At this time of year in Western Colorado, my friends and I watch rivers. We’re eagerly anticipating a bruising spring…

With fellow paddlers back in the day of heavy runoff, Auden Schendler, right, celebrates after running a river, courtesy Auden Schendler

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Go all-electric—and help change the world

By Auden Schendler

The company I work for recently built a new ticket office at the base of Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colorado….

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All-electric is the way to go

By Auden Schendler Ted White

“But perhaps the most challenging task of all is to decarbonize buildings.”

Photograph by Michael Wilson, courtesy of Unsplash

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