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Director’s Corner: Eating as if Food is the Point

“What we discovered in Italy was that if an establishment serves food, then food is the point.” (original italicized). Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle In her marvelous book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver describes her food experiences during a trip to Italy. She was amazed that wherever she and her…

Mike KenslerMarch 4, 2020

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Director’s Corner: Taking the Measure of Our Humanity in the 21st Century

The Sustainability Compass “I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.” Albert Einstein, 1948 As I look around at the ever-growing climate crisis and the shocking lack of global action, the fracturing of democracies and toxicity of public discourse, constant war,…

Mike KenslerFebruary 3, 2020

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Director’s Corner: Humanity’s growing ecological footprint: “the only measure which tracks how much nature we have – and how much nature we use.”

“If we did to our bank account what we have been doing to the Earth’s natural capital we would have been bankrupt long ago.” ~Christina Figueres, former Executive Secretary, United Nations Frameworks Convention on Climate Change Planet Earth has over eons generated a vast endowment of natural capital, which the…

Mike KenslerJanuary 9, 2020

Director's Corner SDG13

Director’s Corner: Solar Power & Climate Change–Closing the Emissions Gap

“We are like tenant farmers, chopping down the fence around our house for fuel, when we should be using nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy—sun, wind, and tide.” Thomas Edison in 1931, as quoted by James D. Newton On November 26th, 2019, the United Nations Environment Program released its Emissions Gap…

Mike KenslerDecember 4, 2019

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Director’s Corner: The Necessary & Inevitable Transportation Transformation

“The industrial age of energy and transportation will be over by 2030. Maybe before.” Tony Seba, Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation Is it possible that a transformation to sustainable energy and transportation systems is right around the corner? According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in 2017 the transportation…

Mike KenslerNovember 13, 2019

Director's Corner SDG8

Director’s Corner: Overconsumption, Climate Change, the Doughnut, & Wellbeing

“There is a world of difference between well-being and being well-off.” Stefan Klein, The Science of Happiness Imagine an economy and a future where Wellbeing, the western point on the Sustainability Compass, one of the four system conditions of a sustainable world, is the point and the goal; and a…

Mike KenslerOctober 3, 2019

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Director’s Corner: Waste: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone

“There is no such thing as ‘away’. When we throw anything away it must go somewhere.” - Annie Leonard, The Story of Stuff Envision a world where human civilization, including everything we build and use, has a regenerative and restorative impact on the planet, where what we make and how…

Mike KenslerSeptember 3, 2019

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Director’s Corner: Trees, Forests, & Reversing Global Warming

“… in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.” - President John F. Kennedy, 1963 Human activity since the dawn of…

Mike KenslerAugust 13, 2019

Director's Corner SDG14 SDG6 Updates

Director’s Corner: The Oceans Cradle All Life on Earth & Require Immediate Protection & Restoration

“It ought to be hard for a species that occupies roughly 10% of the earth’s land to mess up 70% of the planet’s entire surface. Yet humans are well on the way to wrecking the oceans.” Jennifer Duggan, Time, February 4, 2019 Life on Earth began in primitive seas about…

Mike KenslerApril 12, 2019

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Director’s Corner: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are ‘No Little Plans’

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work…." — Daniel Hudson Burnham “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there” is a paraphrase of…

Mike KenslerMarch 19, 2019

Director’s Corner: Eating as if Food is the Point

Director’s Corner: Taking the Measure of Our Humanity in the 21st Century

Director’s Corner: Humanity’s growing ecological footprint: “the only measure which tracks how much nature we have – and how much nature we use.”

Director’s Corner: Solar Power & Climate Change–Closing the Emissions Gap

Director’s Corner: The Necessary & Inevitable Transportation Transformation

Director’s Corner: Overconsumption, Climate Change, the Doughnut, & Wellbeing

Director’s Corner: Waste: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone

Director’s Corner: Trees, Forests, & Reversing Global Warming

Director’s Corner: The Oceans Cradle All Life on Earth & Require Immediate Protection & Restoration

Director’s Corner: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are ‘No Little Plans’

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