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"The Business of Sustainability", a report from the MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group found that although the vast majority of respondents had yet to commit seriously to sustainability, those that had acted decisively have derived benefits from doing so.   The report also found that a clear definition of sustainability is itself a work in progress. 4.10

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Arizona Ballroom

Speaker(s)
Auden Schendler Executive Director of Sustainability, Aspen Skiing Company Presenter View

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If sustainability were quick and easy - as many consultants suggest - we would have done it by now. Everyone is talking green, but global carbon dioxide emissions are climbing, and climate scientists tell us that we have under a decade to solve the problem. We need fewer visionaries, and more grunts. It's time to make stuff happen. And the only way we can do that is by honestly discussing our failures, not just our successes.

Speaker Biographies

Auden Schendler is Executive Director of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company where he has led the industry in use of renewable energy, climate policy, certified green buildings, onsite renewables, biodiesel in vehicles, sustainability reporting, ISO 14001 certification and political activism at the Supreme Court and Congressional level.  A LEED (green building) certified professional, Mr. Schendler was previously research associate in corporate sustainability at the Rocky Mountain Institute.  He has been published in Harvard Business Review, the L.A. Times, Salon.com, Orion, and many other journals.  He has testified to Congress about climate change and lectured internationally.  His work has been featured in Outside, Fast Company, Travel and Leisure and Businessweek.  Mr. Schendler was named a global warming innovator in TIME magazine's 2006 climate change special issue.  His new book Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution, was published in February 2009.