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Inside Track: Green Tech/Clean Tech
Does “sustainable” mean 100% renewable? Does “renewable” mean “sustainable”? How much wind, water and sun will fuel our energy needs? According to World Watch: in 2008, the share of the world’s...
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The Gulf Oil Crisis, One Year Later
"A human tragedy and environmental disaster are continuing to unfold in the Gulf..." NOAA's Jane Lubchenco examining the Deep Water Horizon disaster, at AIF '10. Watch her discussion with Andrea...
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Energy Efficiency: Is it Scalable?
How much of energy efficiency is about technology and how much of it is education and a change in our consumptive behaviors?"As we are constantly making escalators and light fixtures less expensive to...
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Steven Chu on 'Glucose Economy' and Energy Alternatives
US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu is in the spotlight today as he testifies at a hearing held by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, about the government-backed loan guarantee to failed solar...
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Bright Spot for Solar Industry: SolarCity Deal a Go
The news reported yesterday that SolarCity has received financing from Bank of America Merrill Lynch to install solar electricity systems on houses on military bases is perhaps even sweeter on the...
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The Population Challenge
Guest Blogger: Gwen Hopkins, Program Officer, Aspen IDEA Initiative, The Aspen Institute The pictures flash quickly: lush sea vegetation replaced by empty grey-blue seabed as carbon bubbles out of...
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Do You Trust the Oil Industry? Debate: No Fracking Way
Experts gathered at Aspen Ideas to debate whether or not the natural gas boom is doing more harm than good with its practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.In favor of fracking, Joe Nocera says...
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On TV: Our Planet 7 Billion and Counting
Tonight’s episode of The Aspen Institute Presentsexplores the global challenges of population growth. As we approach 9 billion people, we will need more food produced in the next 40 years than we have...
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Steven Chu at Aspen Ideas
As Secretary of Energy Steven Chu steps down from the Obama Administration and takes up a post at Stanford University (read news coverage), we look back at Dr. Chu's session at Aspen Ideas where he...
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Transforming Mobility
Aspen Ideas speaker Lawrence Burns writes here about the future of transportation. His presentation is at 12 PM, July 1, at Gisella. For tickets, visit aspenshowtix.com.By Lawrence BurnsIt’s June 15th,...
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The Clean Energy Standard: Budget Buster or No Brainer?
Sunshine is a form of energy and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no; we burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like...
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The largest climate march in history took place Monday in New York, just two days ahead of the UN climate summit on Tuesday. (More in the New York Times). As world leaders gather to search for...
View ArticleExplore the Issues Surrounding Fracking
As reported today, New York is officially moving toward a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. (Read news coverage here and here.)For a deeper dive into the issues surrounding the controversial...
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What We're Reading, June 5
Want insight into the topics we'll be covering at the 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival and Spotlight Health? Over the next few weeks, we'll share articles that have caught our attention, as related to each...
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10 Questions with Chris Davenport
Chris Davenport is a two-time world champion and big Mountain skier. We caught up with him to ask a few questions about life, inspiration, and who he is excited to see at the Festival. Davenport will...
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Changing the World with Film
By Hilary Sparrow, Guest BloggerHilary Sparrow is a senior supervising producer at Vulcan Productions, where she develops and produces feature films, television series, specials, and digital content...
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Aspen Ideas Offstage, Climate Resilience: What it is, and the Role Women Play
When it comes to addressing climate change, women play a significant role in sustaining the environment for future generations. Rachel Kyte is vice president and special envoy for climate change for...
View ArticleClimate Resilience: What it is, and the Role Women Play
Aspen Ideas Offstage features fascinating people sharing perspectives on the most pressing global issues of the day.When it comes to addressing climate change, women play a significant role in...
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Behind the Popularity of Pope Francis
Pope Francis’s inaugural US visit was accompanied by wildly cheering crowds, rock star-level adulation, and praise from politicians on all points of the political spectrum. But why is the pontiff — and...
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Paris Climate Talks Must Address 'a Total System Stressor'
With growing urgency and a lot of bottom-up action around the world, a solid and effective global agreement is needed at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, which opened today, to keep the...
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Saving the Amazon through Gastronomy
A budding “Rainforest to Table” movement will be featured at Spotlight Health. A group of innovative chefs involved in the effort will discuss how it can become a powerful new model for social and...
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4 Questions with Plate of the Union
Ricardo Salvador is a senior scientist and director of the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Before coming to UCS, he was a program officer for food, health, and...
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Making Bread Great Again
Stephen Jones has a question for America: “Why is our bread so damn white?”It’s a question with a host of answers. White flour tastes sweeter. It’s predictable, and easy to work with. It’s efficient....
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How Can We Fix Our Broken Food System?
Americans reportedly waste nearly 40 percent of the food we produce. Still, one in six lives with food insecurity, lacking reliable access to food that’s both affordable and nutritious. How does food...
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How Is Climate Change Impacting Europe's Refugee Crisis?
Thomas Friedman and Sydney Trattner at the Aspen Ideas Festival in June 2016.The massive refugee crisis in Europe isn’t only the product of the war in Syria. Climate change is forcing thousands to flee...
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Keeping Good Food Out of the Trash
Rep. Chellie Pingree, former White House chef Sam Kass, and President of the Daily Table Doug Rauch at Spotlight Health 2016.Before you toss out leftovers this Thanksgiving, consider where that food...
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Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
Author and New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman says the world has entered an age of dizzying acceleration, and in this episode, he explains how to live in it. His latest bookThank you for Being...
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The Best of Spotlight Health 2016
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy at Spotlight Health 2016.Word has gotten out that Spotlight Health is the health conference to attend. Last summer in Aspen, Colorado, participants, speakers, and experts...
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A Look Back on Obama
David Rothkopf, CEO and editor of the FP Group, speaks with Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg at the Aspen Ideas Festival. As President Barack Obama prepares to step down, we look back...
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These red states are showing Washington how to lead on clean energy
John Hall is the Associate Vice President and Texas State Director for Clean Energy at the Environmental Defense Fund. He will speak at Aspen Ideas 2017 as part of the program track Feeling the Heat:...
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2017 Film Lineup
Former Vice President Al Gore stars in the riveting and rousing follow-up to An Inconvenient Truth, Truth to Power. It's part of our flim lineup for the Aspen Ideas Festival.Public tickets for flims go...
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5 Questions with The Nature Conservancy's Mark Tercek
Mark Tercek is president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy and author of Nature’s Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature. Mark will speak at the Aspen Ideas Festival as part...
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Spotlight Health to Feature New Voices Fellows
Aspen New Voices Fellows pose at the Aspen Ideas Festival in 2016.The challenges of international development can seem insurmountable. The world’s toughest problems in global health, food security, and...
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Understanding the Toxic Chemical Gap
Michael Dorsey is a co-founding Director of the Center for Environmental Health. He is a featured speaker at Spotlight Health.Why was the Center for Environmental Health founded? What is the CEH...
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Aspen Ideas Podcast Takeover
The Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast TAKEOVER is back for its second year! In the spirit of a diverse exchange of ideas, we’ve handed over the mic to a handful of Festival presenters to take over the show!...
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How to Harness Nature's Healing Power
By Julie Beck, The AtlanticI am in the mountains and they are healing me. It is like the miracle pool at Lourdes except it’s not a miracle and we’re not at Lourdes. We’re at Maroon Bells, which...
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The Road from Paris
Former US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz speaks with Susan Tierney at the Aspen Ideas Festival in June.What are the consequences of the United States backing out of the Paris Climate Agreement? In June,...
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The Future of Energy: How States Are Leading the Charge
Governor John Hickenlooper speaks with Aspen Institute Executive Vice President Elliot Gerson at the Maroon Bells during the Aspen Ideas Festival. Back in June, the Trump administration announced the...
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Program Topics Announced for Aspen Ideas and Spotlight Health
Attendees gather for a discussion during the 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival. The 2018 Festival will be held June 21 - 30. Seismic Shifts, Our Imperfect Union, The Sexes and Our Planet, Our Health are some...
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Our Most Popular Podcasts of 2017
Jeffrey Sachs, a world-renowned professor of economics, is featured in one of our most popular podcast episodes. He spoke at Spotlight Health in 2017. Podcast listeners in 2017 heard about technology,...
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Sneak Peek: Speakers of Spotlight Health 2018
Presenters left to right, top row: Vanessa Mason, Ted Koppel, Grace Anne Dorney Koppel, Atul Gawande, Karen DeSalvo, Mark Smolinski Presenters left to right, bottom row: Larry Smarr, Kwanele Asante,...
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Behind the Scenes: Producing Aspen Ideas 2018
Kitty Boone is the director of the Aspen Ideas Festival, which starts with Spotlight Health on June 21. What We’ve Been Up ToIt's our 14th year of programming the Festival, and we're excited to bring...
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2018 Film Lineup
Anote Tong, former president of the Pacific Island nation of Kiribati, prepares to speak in Paris on the future of his nation and rising sea levels. He appears in filmmaker Matthieu Rytz's new film...
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Biomimicry: 3.8 Billion Years of R&D
Janine Benyusis a natural sciences writer, speaker, and the co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8, a bio-inspired consultancy. She will speak in the Aspen Ideas Festival program track, Design for the New...
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Eileen Fisher sows the seeds of a better business model
Eileen Fisher, founder of Eileen Fisher, Inc., speaks on a panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival in June.By Judith Samuelson, vice president, founder, and executive director of the Aspen Institute's...
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How to Be Optimistic About Addressing Climate Change
Jeff Goodell speaks with Christiana Figueres about optimism around climate change: a seemingly impossible challenge. They spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival in June.Costa Rican diplomat Christiana...
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To Be (Optimistic) or Not to Be: A Recipe for Beating Climate Change
Christiana Figueres is the former Executive Secretary of the Framework Convention on Climate Change at the United Nations, overseeing the delivery of the Paris Climate Agreement. She is also the...
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The Relationship Between Humans & the Natural World
Writer Kea Krause talks about scientists searching cold waters in the Arctic for wonder drugs. What is it that nature provides that we can’t live without? — Medicine, a sense of place, even happiness?...
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How to Clean up the Apparel Industry
Tami Simon speaks with Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario and Eileen Fisher, founder of Eileen Fisher Inc.The clothing industry is a top polluter, but some companies are working to be kinder to the...
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Podcast: Pushing the Limits
Mountaineer and Backbone Media founder Penn Newhard interviews Tommy Caldwell, author of the book, "The Push" about his historic climb up Yosemite's Dawn Wall. Their conversation was held by Aspen...
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