Auden Schendler

Auden Schendler spent 26 years running sustainability programs at Aspen Skiing Company, a resort, hotel and retail business. He has focused on scale solutions to climate change, including clean energy development, policy, advocacy, and activism. He helped develop the only large scale coal-mine-methane to electricity project in the United States and other pioneering clean energy projects in solar and hydroelectricity. Along with Protect Our Winters, where he served on the board for ten yeras, he worked to mobilize the outdoor industry as a political force like the NRA. Previously a research associate at Rocky Mountain Institute, Auden’s work has been covered in Businessweek, Men’s Journal, Fast Company and Outside. He publishes widely on climate change, parenting, and the outdoors. Named a “climate innovator” by TIME magazine and a “climate saver” by the EPA, he has testified to Congress and spoken at Starbucks, Google, and business schools at Harvard, MIT, Yale and Dartmouth, as well as to fourth graders and Chilean kayakers. Auden has served on several Governor-appointed boards in Colorado, including the Air Quality Control Commission and the Pollution Prevention Advisory board. Between 2016 and 2020, he was elected to Basalt, Colorado’s town council, and served until 2020. He lives in Basalt, CO. 

If you liked Getting Green Done, you’re going to love Auden’s new book (2025) Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul, available at your local bookstore.