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![Americans and Climate: Words to Use, Words to Lose](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/bf0b2a49-bbc5-4046-8f98-2e8506283281/aif-2022-words.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=349%2C0%2C901%2C901&w=290)
Most people now agree that climate change is real and that humans are causing it. But that’s where the consensus stops. Political pollster and strategist Frank Luntz, known for pioneering political focus groups, believes there is a better way to reach more people, more effectively in order to mobilize real action on climate change. In this highly interactive talk, he’ll sh...
![The Future of Energy: How States Are Leading the Charge (Bus Loads at the Limelight Hotel at 6:45 AM)](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null928a548e-6910-44a6-89cc-bc6249f85e4b/35650760405_ad3b462207_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=266%2C0%2C1068%2C1068&w=290)
Governor Hickenlooper believes that States are the laboratories of Democracy, especially when it comes to a secure and clean energy future. Join him and Aspen Institute’s Elliot Gerson for a discussion on how Colorado can help curb the impact of a changing climate while creating stable jobs across the State. Underwritten by The Nature Conservancy
![What Will the Green New Deal Cost, and What Can It Save?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null4a8790ca-3854-4a5a-a39a-1138ce38f9be/48153859121_e597a3149d_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=688%2C0%2C2624%2C2624&w=290)
Many experts argue that massive government mobilization on the scale of World War II deployment is needed to address the catastrophe of climate change. Such is the scope of the Green New Deal, a policy calling for 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, universal health care, living wages, and jobs guarantees. But some economists argue it could cost between $51 trillion and...
![Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullc3470a7b-17e7-4903-92fe-bd58bbe3c37b/35562998511_3b46f1a5cc_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=266%2C0%2C1068%2C1068&w=290)
Many of the people doing today’s most consequential environmental work — restoring America’s grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers, wetlands, and oceans — would not call themselves environmentalists; they would be too uneasy with the connotations of that word. What drives them is their deep love of the land — they feel a moral responsibility to preserve their heritage and ens...
![The Business of Active Citizenship](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/3f6f2cb8-2014-46cd-8704-eff1db8295a2/53003991912_aa17bfaed6_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1034%2C0%2C3734%2C3734&w=290)
Over the past few years, companies have come off the sidelines regarding major policy issues from gun violence to climate change. For Levi Strauss & Co and Patagonia, advocating for their values and modeling good corporate behavior is right up there with selling jeans and puffy jackets. Here’s a look behind their thinking.
![Where the West Lost Its Way](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nulled2d0ebe-db06-4257-8ffb-0f74c48b9e52/48133653878_b321e4fee7_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=279%2C0%2C1041%2C1041&w=290)
World order is never in stasis for too long. And indeed, we seem to be witnessing a historic shift now. The relatively stable decades after World War II saw gains for global democracies, rapid economic growth fueled by globalization, and the birth of the Internet. But they also saw the speeding of global warming, widening inequality, and the scourge of transnational terror...
![How Kids Are Fighting Climate Change, One Lawsuit at a Time](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/256b34f8-18b1-4b39-9984-a46a12885efa/GettyImages-1147070895.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=993%2C0%2C2636%2C2638&w=290)
How is constitutional law being harnessed to address climate change? Ahead of Aspen Ideas: Climate, we caught up with Andrea Rodgers, Senior Attorney at Our Children's Trust, whose environmental law practice is fighting on behalf of young people and future generations.