Spring Seminar Series With Auden Schendler

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Author of Terrible Beauty, Auden Schendler, will give a one-hour seminar about his book of the same name.

Schendler spent his career working in corporate sustainability, trying to use the power of business for good in society, first at RMI and then for 26 years at Aspen One. He focuses on large-scale, systemic solutions to climate change through advocacy, policy, and demonstration projects, including the first utility scale solar array in western Colorado, small hydroelectricity, model green buildings, and coal mine methane capture. He is the author of two books: Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution (2009), and Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul (2025). Auden served as a town councilman in Basalt and an air quality control commissioner for the state of Colorado.

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