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Highlights from Aspen Ideas: Climate 2023
![The Invisible Problem Plaguing Rural America](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/c211cef0-ec8f-478b-b064-d8e50e542810/CatherineColemanFlowers.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=400&q=80&rect=2042%2C0%2C3377%2C3375&w=400)
Catherine Coleman Flowers, the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, has dedicated her life to ensuring human dignity through a right most Amer...
![Bringing the Fullness of our Humanity to the Climate Movement](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/d0160746-a0e0-4c6a-a389-5a1059c7934f/IsaiasHernandez.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=400&q=80&rect=2215%2C0%2C3376%2C3375&w=400)
Environmental activist Isaias Hernandez, founder of the education platform QueerBrownVegan, on combatting climate despair, the nuances of veganism, and what helps him sustain...
![The Climate Solutions in Stories](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/caeeac7a-1560-4a37-ad51-e0f44626303a/52735727204_179dbe4dd8_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C358%2C8256%2C4646&w=400)
The biggest story of our time is unfolding and there is no right way to tell it. Each of these storytellers is telling it differently—using journalism, photography, television...
![Green Financial Solutions for You and Me](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/854bd491-e5a0-4541-91ab-0fe9f4e0a045/52735959073_07e3b66243_o1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C486%2C8256%2C4646&w=400)
This session will explore the landscape of green financial options—including banks, 401K providers, and investment platforms—and help participants take steps to make their own...
![Green is the New Black: Could Fashion be Good for the Planet?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/4b6dea2f-bf0f-4f0e-9d5c-8370db7f672a/52735859550_c0d9c00f8f_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=600&q=80&rect=2482%2C0%2C3097%2C4640&w=400)
The fashion industry can claim 10% of global carbon emissions, never mind its demand on water resources and waste created by manufacturing facilities. But if we can grow “leat...
![Scaling Up Nature-based Climate Infrastructure](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/acc605dd-31e2-420e-b6a0-16db62b6c83d/52735453111_e1af369da0_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C172%2C8256%2C4644&w=400)
“Gray infrastructure”—large projects engineered to prevent climate disasters—aren’t holding up to the extremes of the changing climate. Nature-based solutions represent a diff...
![Factoring in Faith: Religious Leaders on Broadening the Climate Movement](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/8b616819-a310-4d3f-85bd-27f793931f0b/52735851945_ce54961a52_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C1024%2C5504%2C3098&w=400)
Religious leaders from across faith traditions will share how faith shapes their views of the natural world and motivates their climate work, and explore how different ethics...
![Feeding Communities when Fields are Frying](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/da5990a5-37f6-46fa-a7b5-3666366c34ea/52733884130_092ba99a55_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C809%2C6335%2C3572&w=400)
As we face a crisis of water security and soaring heat, agricultural fields and yields are suffering. Hear from global food experts on innovations that can combat growing food...
![Where Buildings Meet Breakwaters: Design Solutions for Resilient Coastlines](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/fc4007c8-aed1-49f6-8051-91222ddd5c12/52733466341_b80d54c149_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C8256%2C4646&w=400)
In Miami and New York—cities famous for great design—underwater sculptures and creative landscape architecture could protect buildings from the next big flood, and protect loc...