Speakers

Auden Schendler is executive director of sustainability at the Aspen Skiing Company. He worked previously in corporate sustainability at the Rocky Mountain Institute and 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, he has climbed Denali, North America's highest peak, and has kayaked the Grand Canyon in the winter. His writing has been published by the Harvard Business Review, the Los Angeles Times, Rock and Ice, and Salon.com, among others. In 2006, he was named a global warming innovator by Time magazine.