20 Jun Telluride Library: Auden Schendler – “Terrible Beauty,” 6/30! A Must If Climate Change is a Concern!
Monday, June 30th at 5:30 pm, join Telluride’s Wilkinson Public Library for a talk and signing – Between the Covers will be on hand – with author Auden Schendler for his newest book, “Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul.”
A firsthand, trench-view story of the failure of the modern environmental movement—and an inspiring prescription for change.
Please scroll down to check a sampling of the rave reviews of “Terrible Beauty.”
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Auden Schendler ran sustainability programs at Aspen Skiing Company for 25 years, focusing on scale solutions to climate change, including clean energy development, policy, advocacy, and activism.
In addition to “Protect Our Winters,” where he served on the board for a decade, Auden has worked to mobilize the outdoor industry as a political force like the NRA.
Named a “climate innovator” by TIME magazine and a “climate saver” by the EPA, Auden served on Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission and Basalt town council. His first book, “Getting Green Done,” was described as “an antidote to greenwash” by NASA climatologist James Hansen.
Auden’s new book is “Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul.”
Between the Covers Bookstore will be on hand selling “Terrible Beauty” at the event.
Auden Schendler, courtesy, Writers on the Range.
“This is the first book about climate that made me feel like I picked the lock on someone’s personal diary.”— Gina McCarthy, former U.S. EPA Administrator and former White House National Climate Advisor
“No one has more hard-earned credibility than Auden Schendler when it comes to taking on the charade that is often corporate sustainability.”— Bill McKibben, author, “The End of Nature.”
“His insight is prescient as we bear down on a hotter and more chaotic planet.”— Conrad Anker, Climber, Writer
“Terrible Beauty,” more:
Something’s gone badly awry with environmentalism. We faithfully separate our waste into different streams, but wonder whether it really makes a difference. Global companies announce their commitment to carbon negativity while simultaneously sponsoring oil conferences. American businesses, communities, and individuals assiduously measure their carbon footprints, then implement voluntary emissions-reduction programs, all while trumpeting their do-gooderism.
The problem is, none of this – whether individual efforts or corporate sustainability tactics – will make a dent in solving the civilizational threat of climate change. We only pretend it will. At our peril.
As sustainability veteran Auden Schendler argues in this provocative, powerful book, we’re living a big green lie. The hard truth is that much of the modern environmental road map could have been written by the fossil fuel industry specifically to avoid disrupting the status quo. Somehow we have become complicit.
But there is another truth: while ineffective or duplicitous environmentalism has become standard practice, we all have friends and family we love and care about and their future depends on solving the problem of climate change. Conscience tells us we have an obligation to repair the world. How can our common dreams be so at odds with our daily practice? And how might we meld our spirit and our passion to create a better future?
Auden Schendler meets this profound contradiction head-on with his bracing critique, moving personal stories of parenthood and service, and innovative, real-world methods to tackle climate change at the corporate, community, and individual levels.
“Terrible Beauty” is a unique and inspiring call for a new environmentalism, showing us that the key to saving the planet is to tap into our own humanity.
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