Ideas, Speakers & Lectures

Wilderness Workshop

Wilderness Workshop’s mission is to protect the wilderness, water, and wildlife of western Colorado’s public lands. The organization works across more than four million acres of public lands to ensure their ecological integrity. They have led efforts to designate more than half a million acres of Wilderness and hundreds of thousands of roadless areas in western Colorado. Their efforts focus on protecting public lands from threats such as industrial development, climate change, and short-term exploitation, but perhaps more important is what they protect public lands for – intact and thriving ecosystems, a livable planet for current and future generations, and the moment of awe that can only be experienced in a wild place. Learn more at wildernessworkshop.org.

Naturalist Nights: “Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul” with Auden Schendler

Aspen Public Radio

Published January 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM MST

This event was recorded on January 9, 2025 at the Pitkin County Library, produced by ACES and Wilderness Workshop, as part of the 2025 Winter Naturalist Nights Series, in partnership with Aspen Public Radio.

About the Presentation

There’s a terrible beauty in this world. There are things we love beyond words—our children, our community, special places in the natural world—and yet all of those things are threatened by climate change. And yet our actions in response to that threat tend to be token: many of us don’t even vote. After a divisive presidential election, and at the eleventh hour, how do we grapple with climate change, and use our humanity and aspirations as a way to propel us forward?

About the Speaker

Auden Schendler is SVP of Sustainability at Aspen One. He is the author of the book Getting Green Done, and new this year, Terrible Beauty, Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul.