The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues.
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Displaying What We Do: Energy & Environment
Publication | June 15, 2012
Energy and Environment Program
The Aspen Institute’s Energy and Environment Program is pleased to announce the completion of a new publication based on the Dialogue Series on Conservation in the 21st Century entitled “Nature as...
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Video | June 23, 2012
Must extinction be forever? Advances in cloning and DNA sequencing have made recreating extinct species a real possibility. Several research groups around the world are now pursuing resurrections—...
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Video | June 23, 2012
The environmental impacts of natural gas development are real. Public trust for the industry is eroding and its license to operate is at risk. Strong voices —from leading companies responding to the...
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Video | June 24, 2012
It seems that since the last Aspen Environment Forum no one has solved the problem of how to provide carbonfree energy to 9 billion people by mid-century. But in fascinating new books, two...
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Video | June 23, 2012
No scientist alive today has done more than Harvard biologist Ed Wilson to promote the understanding of biodiversity and its conservation. At 82, Wilson comes to Aspen after a year that included an...
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Video | June 23, 2012
Our new normal is a population of 7 billion people living in a world that’s a degree warmer than it was a half centuryago. Melting ice caps, rising seas, droughts and floods, wildlife besieged—the...
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Video | June 26, 2012
Agriculture is the largest, most ecologically disruptive, and most necessary enterprise on Earth. Growing enough food for 9 billion people by mid-century will require its radical transformation. Can...
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Video | June 25, 2012
The United Nations Rio+20 Conference will focus on two themes: (a) a green economy in the context of sustainabledevelopment and poverty eradication; and (b) the institutional framework for...
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Video | June 25, 2012
Can change happen on environmental issues if we just learn to communicate about them better? This panel of professional communicators will present their ideas and distinct approaches, then discuss...
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Video | August 3, 2012
McCloskey Speaker SeriesFeaturing:New Jersey Governor Chris ChristieLouisiana Governor Bobby JindalSouth Carolina Governor Nikki HaleyVirginia Governor Bob McDonnellWisconsin Governor Scott...
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