How does storytelling matter? Why might we bring in feelings about our children or a moment of being overcome with beauty into a book about, say, climate change? In this episode of Emerging Form, we speak with Auden Schendler about the power of story, about how we are drawn to tell the stories we most need to tell, and how and why it’s important to let humility be a part of our practice.Auden Schendler has spent almost thirty years working on sustainability and climate change in the corporate world, focusing on big scale change that rejects tokenism. Currently Senior Vice President of Sustainability at Aspen One, he has been a town councilman, a Colorado Air Quality Control Commissioner, and an ambulance medic. He’s the author of Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Sustainability Revolution, which climatologist James Hansen called “an antidote to greenwash,” and new this year, <a target="_blank" href="https://store.hbr.org/product/terrible-beauty-reckoning-with-climate-complicity-and-rediscovering-our-soul/10747?srsltid=AfmBOooxfqix90NWUIEsKVxU-s1X2MNbEZd4vHVD44kCjWOe0DRmrTdR">Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering our Soul</a><a target="_blank" href="https://store.hbr.org/product/terrible-beauty-reckoning-with-climate-complicity-and-rediscovering-our-soul/10747?srsltid=AfmBOooxfqix90NWUIEsKVxU-s1X2MNbEZd4vHVD44kCjWOe0DRmrTdR">,</a> which historian Naomi Oreskes called “compelling and weirdly fun.” This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://emergingform.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">emergingform.substack.com/subscribe</a>

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