Auden Schendler is Executive Director of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company. Previously research associate in corporate sustainability at Rocky Mountain Institute, Auden 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, Auden has climbed Denali, North America’s highest peak, and kayaked the Grand Canyon in winter. His writing has been published in Harvard Business Review, the L.A. Times, Scientific American and Salon.com, among other places, and his work has been covered in Businessweek, Fast Company, Travel and Leisure, Outside, and other media. A LEED accredited professional, Auden was named a global warming innovator by TIME magazine in 2006, an EPA Climate Saver in 2007, and a University of Colorado Wirth Chair Pioneer of the New Energy Economy in 2008. In 2007 he testified to Congress on the impact of climate change on public lands. He lives in Basalt, Colorado with his wife Ellen and their children Willa and Elias.

 

 

 

 

Auden has consulted with numerous entities on sustainability (focusing on actually getting stuff done as opposed to talking about it)  including:

 

• The Australian Ski Industry
  
• Tahoe Mountain Resorts
  
• Related-Westpac
  
• The International Ecotourism Society
  
• Scottish Enterprise Sustainable Tourism Group
  
• The Kendall Foundation
  
• Humanscale
   

Contact Auden at aschendler@aspensnowmass.com.