Auden Schendler

Auden Schendler

Climate activist; Author, “Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul”

Auden Schendler spent 25 years running sustainability programs at Aspen One, a ski, hospitality and retail business. He focuses on scale solutions to climate change, including clean-energy development, policy, advocacy, activism, and movement building. He publishes widely on climate change, parenting, and the outdoors and was named a "climate innovator" by TIME magazine and a "climate saver" by the EPA. He is the author of the book "Getting Green Done", which climatologist James Hansen called "an antidote to greenwash." He lives in Basalt, Colorado, with his wife and two children.  

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Podcast

Is ESG BS?

March 7, 2025
When it comes to addressing the causes of climate change, individual action is necessary but insufficient. The truth is that the government and...