• The Future of Our Shared Environment — Today

  • March 26-30, 2008
    Aspen, Colorado

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    Hosted by the Aspen Institute and National Geographic magazine, the first Aspen Environment Forum in Aspen, Colorado was a powerful, three-day exchange examining the future of our shared environment.

    Media coverage of the Forum.

FEATURED SPEAKERS

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Timothy Wirth

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Timothy Wirth
President
United Nations Foundation

I think the climate issue is the most interesting political, economic, diplomatic, and environmental issue in the world.

James Balog

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James Balog
Founder and Director
Extreme Ice Survey

To me, the really interesting story has been, and will continue to be, [the boundary between humans and nature] in all its different manifestations.

Ira Magaziner

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Ira Magaziner
Chairman
Clinton Climate Initiative

If you want to have a maximum impact, you have to be scalable and sustainable, which means it has to be economic

Jim Rogers

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Jim Rogers
Chairman of the Board President and CEO
Duke Energy

Saving energy should be as much a part of a utility’s mission as generating and delivering electricity.

Lara Hansen

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Lara Hansen
Chief Scientist
WWF Global Climate Change Programme

Conservation and resource management has long been considered in terms of spatial scales (reserve design, corridors, minimum habitat size, etc...). Climate change requires that this paradigm be changed and that temporal considerations figure more prominently in resource management.

James Kunstler

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James Kunstler
Author

"Note to public: technology and energy are not the same things, and continuing to think that they are may place our civilization in jeopardy."