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00000176-6d2a-dc2f-ad76-6d2a4efd0000The Aspen Ideas Festival is an annual week and a half long gathering that offers a variety of programs, tutorials, seminars, discussions and events that bring together vibrant intellectual exchange. Aspen Public Radio is broadcasting several of the events. If you miss it live, you can listen to them here. To check the schedule of live broadcasts this week, click here.

Aspen Ideas Festival rooted in nature

Elizabeth Stewart-Severy
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Aspen Public Radio

The Aspen Ideas Festival brings together top thinkers across a wide variety of topics and issues — and a daily environmental fix.

Each day of this week’s Aspen Ideas Festival begins in nature, at the Maroon Bells Amphitheater. These sunrise sessions consider topics like why nature makes us healthier, how to capture the perfect photo, how biking trails can benefit communities and energy innovation.

Beginning Thursday, speakers begin to consider “Big Ideas on Climate.” These discussions will consider issues related to renewable energy, clean water, carbon dividends and the impacts of President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement.

 

To listen to Aspen Public Radio's broadcasts of Aspen Ideas Festival conversations, click here.

 

Aspen native Elizabeth Stewart-Severy is excited to be making a return to both the Red Brick, where she attended kindergarten, and the field of journalism. She has spent her entire life playing in the mountains and rivers around Aspen, and is thrilled to be reporting about all things environmental in this special place. She attended the University of Colorado with a Boettcher Scholarship, and graduated as the top student from the School of Journalism in 2006. Her lifelong love of hockey lead to a stint working for the Colorado Avalanche, and she still plays in local leagues and coaches the Aspen Junior Hockey U-19 girls.
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