Corporate Sustainability is a Scam. How Can We Do Better?
Overview
This event is part of 2026 Business Ethics Week organized by the Center for Ethical and Sustainable Business!
Join us for the online event with Auden Schendler, Author of Terrible Beauty, Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul. Learn why he has come to believe that corporate sustainability efforts are largely ineffective gestures that perpetuate a "status quo" beneficial to the fossil fuel industry. Rather than just focus on reducing their own carbon footprints, corporations should use their political influence to promote sound climate policies.
Event Location: Virtual on Zoom
- Join Zoom meeting on April 22, 2026, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.: https://sfsu.zoom.us/j/87081972532?pwd=HKVxOaAxav4m4mgOV2hvH4nlL0vMn1.1
- Passcode: 224336
Speaker:
Auden Schendler
Author, Terrible Beauty, Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul
Auden Schendler is author of Terrible Beauty, Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul, published in 2024. He also authored the brutally honest and brilliantly insightful 2010 book Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution.
He spent twenty-six years running sustainability programs at Aspen Skiing Company, which operates ski resorts, hotels, restaurants, and retail stores. He focused on scale solutions to climate change, including clean-energy development, policy, advocacy, movement building, and activism. Some of his projects included development of small-scale hydro-electricity, utility-scale solar, coal mine methane-to-electricity, and community organizing to replace the board of a utility. He is currently a partner in Switchback Restoration LLC, which is destroying methane leaking from a closed coal mine in Western Colorado.
The Lam Family College of Business welcomes persons with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations upon request. If you would like reasonable accommodations for this event, please contact Professor Tom Thomas at tethomas@sfsu.edu as soon as possible so your request may be reviewed.