Coffee Talk 2016: Exporting America’s Best Idea

CANCELLED

Hotel Telluride

America pioneered the concept of national parks and created 58 of them, but only 2 percent of total U.S. landmass is dedicated to parks. This “best idea” has gone international, now having been adopted by nearly 100 countries, some of which (e.g. Belize) have allocated as much as 38 percent of their acreage for this public purpose. Tom Butler and Kris Tompkins have worked together in Chile and Argentina to conserve land for parks, while Linde Waidhofer has spent recent years photographing parks in Patagonia. This event has been cancelled.