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The Future of Our Shared Environment -- Today
March 26-30, 2008, Aspen, Colorado
The Aspen Institute and National Geographic magazine host the first ever Aspen Environment Forum, in Aspen, Colorado—a powerful, three-day exchange examining the future of our shared environment.
Inspired by intellectually rich exchanges with today’s foremost thought leaders on the environment, participants will come away with a better understanding of the challenges of preserving the environment within a robust economy.
Paul Heltzel, senior producer for National Geographic Magazine Online, blogs from the 2008 Aspen Environment Forum.
Online environmental magazine Grist covers the Environment Forum.
David Monsma, Exec. Director of the Energy & Environment Program, tells radio program Earth & Sky that the purpose of the Environment Forum is to "get at the issues." Listen.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
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Patricia Nelson LimerickPatricia Nelson Limerick
Faculty Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West
University of Colorado
Amory Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
Consider “re-engineer[ing] our relationship with engineers.” ... “If our engineers have made environmental messes—and they have—they made them at our request.”
Frances Beinecke, Executive Director, NRDC s Beinecke
Today we have a temporary aberration called “industrial capitalism” which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital.. the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that. "Now we must press our leaders to confront climate change head-on. Our message to Congress and the whole nation is: This can be done. "
HRH Basma Bint Ali, a Bint Ali
Chair of the Jordan Royal Ecological Diving Society, the National Environment Wildlife Society and the Red Crescent Society. My ultimate goal is to have integrated the green way of living in our daily life and that environmental issues no longer are regarded as a separate entity, but instead are the way we should live.