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Auden Schendler Questions, How Green Can Companies Really Be?

Posted By Dr. Thomas Beschorner (CSR NEWS) On November 26, 2007 @ 4:42 am In ++New Publications, +NGOs, +english, Corporate Watchdog Media, podcast | No Comments

Corporate Watchdog Radio co-hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon speak with Auden Schendler, who heads the sustainability program at Aspen Skiing Company and has stirred up a heap of controversy as the subject of a recent BusinessWeek cover story entitled “Little Green Lies.” Schendler calls into question the degree to which companies, within our current capitalist structure, can actually enact meaningful change toward true sustainability. Having convinced his company to commit in a big way to renewable energy credits (RECs), he has since become disillusioned, noting that many RECs fail to add new renewable energy projects to the world, and questioning exaggerated claims of RECs’ actual impact on reducing carbon emissions.

[1] Listen

[2] BusinessWeek October 29, 2007 Cover Story: “Little Green Lies”

[3] Aspen Skiing Company Environment Website

[4] Clean Air-Cool Planet report: A Consumer’s Guide to Retail Offset Providers

[5] Gold Standard carbon credit quality label

[6] Voluntary Carbon Standard

[7] Climate Counts

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URLs in this post:
[1] Listen: http://homepage.mac.com/sanfordlewisvideo/.Music/CWR-2007-11-21.mp3
[2] BusinessWeek October 29, 2007 Cover Story: “Little Green Lies”: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_44/b4056001.htm
[3] Aspen Skiing Company Environment Website: http://www.aspensnowmass.com/environment/
[4] Clean Air-Cool Planet report: A Consumer’s Guide to Retail Offset Providers: http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/ConsumersGuidetoCarbonOffsets.pdf
[5] Gold Standard carbon credit quality label: http://www.cdmgoldstandard.org/
[6] Voluntary Carbon Standard: http://www.v-c-s.org/
[7] Climate Counts: http://www.climatecounts.org/