Opening day of the Aspen Ideas Festival - Quote by President John F. Kennedy / Photo ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Walter Isaacson, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute welcome participants and speakers to the Aspen Ideas Festival / Photo ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved.

Justin Smith - The Atlantic welcomes participants and speakers to the Aspen Ideas Festival / Photo ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved.

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Paola Antonelli Senior Curator in the Dept. of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York speaks to the audience at the Aspen Ideas Festival / Photo ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Robin Wright, senior fellow at the US Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center at the Aspen Ideas Festival Opening and Welcome / Photo ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved.

Clive Crook, Senior Editor of The Atlantic at the Welcome and Opening of the Aspen Ideas Festival / Photo ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Hanna Rosin, contributing editor at The Atlantic and and founder and co-editor of DoubleX, Slate’s women’s section, speaks at the opening of the Aspen Ideas Festival / Photo ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved.

Aspen Ideas Festival Welcome and Opening / Photo ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Ta'Nehisi Coates, senior editor for The Atlantic, speaks at the Welcome and Opening of The Aspen Ideas Festival / Photo ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Melody Barnes, Domestic Policy Advisor in the White House, speaks at the Welcome and Opening of the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, CO / Photo ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

David Leonhardt,economics columnist for The New York Times, speaks at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, CO

Salman Khan, founder and sole faculty member of the Khan Academy, speaks at the Welcome and Opening of the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado / Photo ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved.

Viewing the Thomson Reuters 9/11 Display at the Aspen Meadows during the Aspen Ideas Festival / Photo ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Crowds at during opening day at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, CO / Photo ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

U.S. Trust Worth Tree at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, CO / Photo ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved.

U.S. Trust and Mercedes Maroon Bell Excursion during the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, CO / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved.

Early morning departure from the Little Nell to the Maroon Bells / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Clive Crook, Senior Editor of The Atlantic, instructs a nature photo workshop at the Maroon Bells during the Aspen Ideas Festival. / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved.

Enjoying the scenery at the Maroon Bells in Aspen, CO / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Test drive at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, CO / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

HP Experience Zone - checking out the daily schedule of the Aspen Ideas Festival. / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

The US and World Economy with Liaquat Ahamed, Robert Hormats, Christopher M. Hyzy, Moderator: Gillian Tett as the Aspen Ideas Festival. / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

US and World Economy - Moderator: Gillian Tett and the Aspen Ideas Festival. ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

US and World Economy - Christopher M. Hyzy, Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer at U.S. Trust Bank of America / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

US and World Economy - Liaguat Ahamed, Investment Manager at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

US and World Economy - Robert Hormats, Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, US Department of State at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Crowds at the Aspen Ideas Festival at the Aspen Institute in Aspen Colorado / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

"We Agree on Problems, Can We Agree on Solutions?" - Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

"We Agree on Problems, Can We Agree on Solutions?" - Jane Harman, President, CEO, and Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and former US Representative (D-CA) / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

David Axelrod, Senior Campaign Strategist and Former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama and Thomas J. Wilson, Chairman, President, and CEO, The Allstate Corporation / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

David Axelrod, Thomas J. Wilson and Vin Weber (Managing Partner, Clark & Winestock; Former US Representative (R-MN); Trustee, The Aspen Institute) / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Vin Weber, Managing Partner, Clark & Winestock; Former US Representative (R-MN); Trustee, The Aspen Institute, at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Taking a break at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, CO / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Thomson Rueters Reception at ll Mulino in Aspen, CO during the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Thomson Reuters Reception at ll Mulino - David Bradley, (ChairmanOwner, Atlantic Media Company), Molly Nye and Joseph Nye (University Distinguished Service Professor and Dean Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School) / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved.

Thomson Reuters Reception at ll Mulino during the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Michele Mayes (Executive VP and General Counsel, The Allstate Corporation), Allstate Dinner at the Aspen Mountain Clug at the Little Nell / ©Gregg Adams Photograhpy. All rights reserved

Allstate Dinner - The Aspen Mountain Club at the Little Nell / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Tom Wilson (Chairman, President, and CEO, The Allstate Corporation) and Tio Hardiman (Executive Director, CeaseFire Illinois) at the Allstate Dinner / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Allstate Dinner at the Aspen Mountain Club at the Little Nell / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

View from the top of the Aspen Mountain Club on Aspen Mountain, Colorado / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Siemens Sustainable Cities Exhibit and Relaxation Zone / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Iron Maiden vehicle adn the Granite Falls High School ShopGirls Team / ©Gregg Adams Photograpy. All rights reserved

Granite Falls High School Shop Girls Team with the car they designed at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Chandrakant Patel (Senior Fellow and Director, Sustainable Ecosystems Research Lab, HP Laboratories) / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

"The City of Tomorrow" during the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Alexis Madrigal Senior Editor, The Atlantic / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

The Aspen Meadows Resort home to the Aspen Institute / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Corby Kummer Senior Editor, The Atlantic

From Argument to Advocacy - Delivering Academic Success Through Urban Debates at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

From Argument to Advocacy - Delivering Academic Success Through Urban Debates at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

US Trust Worth Tree during the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, CO / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Robert McDonald (Vanguard Scientist, The Nature Conservancy), Robert Bryce (Senior Fellow, Center for Energy Policy and the Environment, The Manhattan Institute; Journalist) / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

The Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

A Discussion on Food, Forests and Fuel at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, CO / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Kristina M. Johnson CEO, Enduring Energy; Former Under Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Robert Bryce Senior Fellow, Center for Energy Policy and the Environment, The Manhattan Institute; Journalist / ©Gregg Adams Photograhpy. All rights reserved

Kristina M. Johnson and Robert McDonald at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, CO / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Aspen Ideas Festival at the Aspen Meadows Resort home of the Aspen Institute / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (University Distinguished Service Professor and Dean Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School) and Stephen J. Adler (Editor-in-Chief, Reuters News; Executive Vice President News, Thomson Reuters) / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Rye Barcott Co-Founder, Carolina for Kibera / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Andrew McAfee Principal Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Peter Jackson Chief Scientist and Vice President, Thomson Reuters / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

John Seely Brown at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Aspen Ideas Festival at the Aspen Meadows home to the Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Orville Schell, James Fallows, Josh Tyrangiel, Robert Hormats and David Schlesinger at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

David Schlesinger Chairman, Thomson Reuters China / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Orville Schell Arthur Ross Director of the Center on US-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Socks with personality at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Josh Tyrangiel Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Robert D. Hormats (Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, US Department of State) and David Schlesinger Chairman, Thomson Reuters China / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Thomson Reuters 9/11 Digital Installation at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, CO / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Wendy Kopp, Diane Ravitch & James Bennet at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Diane Ravitch Research Professor of Education, New York University; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

James Bennet Editor, The Atlantic at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Wendy Kopp CEO and Founder, Teach For America at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Alexis Madrigal Senior Editor, The Atlantic / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Robert Hormats at the Booz Allen Hamilton Dinner during the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Chandrakant Patel at the Booz Allen Hamilton Dinner / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Aspen Ideas Festival at the Aspen Meadows Resort home to the Aspen Institute, Aspen Colorado / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

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James Fallows (National Correspondent, The Atlantic) and Alexis Madrigal at the Booz Allen Hamilton Dinner / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

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Altria event at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Altria event at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

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Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen CO / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

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Crowds in the Aspen Music Tent during the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

David G. Bradley Chairman, Owner, Atlantic Media Company speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Walter Isaacson President and CEO, The Aspen Institute at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, CO / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

David G. Bradley Chairman, Owner, Atlantic Media Company speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Crowds in the Aspen Music Tent during the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

The grounds of the Aspen Meadows Resort home to the Aspen Institute in Aspen, CO / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

U.S. Trust Worth Tree during the Aspen Ideas Festival at the Aspen Institute / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

The grounds of the Aspen Meadows Resort home to the Aspen Institute / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Registration during the Aspen Ideas Festival at the Aspen Institute / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Mercedes-Benz Booth at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Marvin Odum President, Shell Oil Co. and Joe Nocera Opinion-Editorial Columnist, The New York Times at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Joe Nocera Opinion-Editorial Columnist, The New York Times at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Eric Spiegel President and CEO, Siemens Corporation / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Siemens Green City Index Press Conference at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Siemens Green City Index Press Conference at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Siemens Green City Index Press Conference at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Thom Shanker (Pentagon Correspondent, The New York Times), Shashi Tharoor (Member, Indian Parliament; Trustee, The Aspen Institute), Robin Wright (Joint Fellow, US Institute of Peace and The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), John D. Negroponte (Vice Chairman, McLarty Associates) and Jeffrey Goldberg (National Correspondent, The Atlantic) at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Jeffrey Goldberg National Correspondent, The Atlantic discussing the Post Bin Laden World at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, CO / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

The Post Bin Laden World session during the Aspen Ideas Festival at the Aspen Institute / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Thom Shanker Pentagon Correspondent, The New York Times and Shashi Tharoor Member, Indian Parliament; Trustee, The Aspen Institute during the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved.

John D. Negroponte Vice Chairman, McLarty Associates at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography

The Post Bin Laden World Session at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, CO / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

The grounds of Aspen Meadows Resort home to the Aspen Institute / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved.

The grounds of Aspen Meadows Resort home to the Aspen Institute / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved.

Media Roundtable - Joe Nocera (Opinion-Editorial Columnist, The New York Times), Chrystia Freeland (Editor, Thomson Reuters), Andrew Ross Sorkin (Financial Columnist, The New York Times) and Kai Ryssdal (Host, “Marketplace,” American Public Media) at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Chrystia Freeland and Andrew Ross Sorkin at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Joe Nocera, Chrystia Freeland and Andrew Ross Sorkin at the Media Roundtable during the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Chrystia Freeland and Andrew Ross Sorkin at the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Biking the grounds of the Aspen Meadows Resort home to the Aspen Institute in Aspen, Colorado / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

A view from the window during the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Crowds during the Aspen Ideas Festival at the Aspen Meadows Resort home to the Aspen Institute / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Siemens Sustainable Cities Exhibit and Relaxation Zone during the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved.

Siemens Sustainable Cities Exhibit and Relaxation Zone during the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved.

Siemens Sustainable Cities Exhibit and Relaxation Zone during the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved.

The Aspen Meadows Resort home to the Aspen Institute during the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

The Aspen Meadows Resort home to the Aspen Institute during the Aspen Ideas Festival / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved

Reflections at the Aspen Meadows Resort home to the Aspen Institute / ©Gregg Adams Photography. All rights reserved