The Environment

Featuring Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History” and commentator on environmentalism for The New Yorker, speaking on her new book, “Under A White Sky: The Nature of the Future,” in conversation with the Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program Executive Director Greg Gershuny.

The Aspen Clean Energy Innovation Roundtable Series is a six-part dialogue co-chaired by Roger Ballentine and Jim Connaughton. These meeting

Transportation emissions continue to grow and now represent more than any other sector. We can change that.

In the Northern Forest, we sustainably harvest timber as part of integrated forest management and use sawmill waste to create solid wood fuel that is delivered to homes just as oil and propane are. But, instead of contributing to the problem, modern wood heat reduces net carbon dioxide emissions by more than 50%.

Learn about how investments in school buildings, grounds, and electric buses can help advance sustainability and address climate change.

Staying within the Paris Climate Agreement’s 2℃ limit will require a large, coordinated action.

As individuals change their lifestyles, politicians, corporations, and investors start to follow their cues.

With more than 94 million Americans living near oceans and coasts, it is essential that the plan includes related risks and solutions.

This listening session will focus on how we can continue to grow a movement that leads to widespread, sustained changes at all levels to support the education sector in moving toward climate action, solutions, and environmental justice.