Our friend Jon Foley is at the Aspen Environment Forum this week, and he loved Tuesday evening’s presentation so much that he told his Facebook friends about it:

Jon Foley Saw an amazing presentation by BellaGaia.com tonight. Check it out. Just beautiful.

We checked it out, and it is beautiful: just what we needed after a sultry day of traffic, juggling, and general whining. See if this two-minute sample works the same magic on you:

The Aspen Environment Forum is created by the Aspen Institute and sponsored by National Geographic; the mission is practically green on a global, planet scale.

In the spirit of the Aspen Institute, our mission is to expand and enhance your views on key environmental issues and further your understanding of the complexities of the challenges we all face, through an extraordinary rich exchange, across a wide array of important environmental topics and ideas. By bringing informed dialogue to our campus, we aim to challenge and advance the thinking of all invited speakers and attendees, and to build new levels of understanding that bridge cultural and political differences.

This week’s agenda included three days of sessions and meetings.

Jon Foley is the Director of the Institute on the Environment (IonE) at the University of the Minnesota, which publishes Momentum magazine. He’s a big thinker, always buzzing, making news and suggesting solutions. You can watch him explaining environmental tipping points here.

Bottom line: Jon’s the kind of professor we like to have around to explain the big picture. “This isn’t just about hugging trees and hope they stay here: this is about keeping the planet we know intact for future generations.”