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One of the greatest big-mountain snowboarders of all time came to Western Colorado University for another installment of our Blister Speaker Series. But Jeremy isn’t simply one of the best to ever ride a board; by founding Protect Our Winters, Jeremy has had a massive impact on the broader snowsports world, and is working to address one of the biggest issues of our time: climate change. So we talked to Jeremy about filming, snowboarding, founding POW, the ‘outdoor state’; and more. TOPICS & TIMES: - When were you last in the Gunnison Valley? (3:56)
- Relevance today of Jeremy’s film, Purple Mountains (6:41)
- Size of the ‘Outdoor State’? (8:30)
- Starting Protect Our Winters (10:34)
- How has the mission of POW stayed the same or evolved? (16:55)
- The road not taken (20:39)
- Social media attacks (22:35)
- How much are you snowboarding these days? (24:50)
- Clarify POW’s position on Individual Behavior vs Policy & Voting (28:07)
- Will individual behavior ultimately move the needle? (32:59)
- Hilaree Nelson (36:58)
- Have you talked to a legislator who made you reconsider a position? (40:47)
- Pessimism and the Future (42:40)
- Scariest moment snowboarding? (46:07)
- How does POW decide which objectives to tackle? (49:05)
- Are you seeing funding coming in to support climate action? (50:16)
- How do you feel about ‘carbon neutrality’? (52:48)
- How to convince officials to care about climate action if they are funded by parties against it? (55:26)
- How were you thinking about climate while filming Art of Flight? (58:12)
- Climate Leadership: federal government vs small communities (1:00:18)
- Upcoming elections (1:01:55)
- What's your favorite place to snowboard? (1:03:04)
- Jeremy’s new book The Art of Shralpinism: Lessons from the Mountains (1:04:06)
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