Mike Kensler, Author at Office of Sustainability

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Effort + Relaxation Keeps Us in the Game

“There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation;” -- Lewis Carroll It’s hard to believe the fall and spring terms of the 2016-2017 academic year are over. The impression I get from everyone I’ve talked with since August is that folks have been busy,…

Mike KenslerApril 29, 2016

STARS Updates

From Earth Day to Sustainability and STARS: Making a Significant Difference

“Auburn University is committed to integrating sustainability into all aspects of the University including: operations, instruction, research and outreach activities. Auburn University considers sustainability a core value and strives for excellence in sustainability through continuous assessment and improvement.” -- Auburn University Sustainability Policy Statement First Earth Day demonstration in Philadelphia.…

Mike KenslerApril 18, 2016

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Waste? Humans Invented It. Nature Never Heard of It.

“Nature doesn’t have a design problem. People do.” ~William McDonough and Michael Braungart in Cradle to Cradle Our mental models, store our internal assumptions about the way the world works, determine how we see and behave in the world. We accept unexamined assumptions as the way things are, the way…

Mike KenslerApril 7, 2016

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Transformational Leadership and Megacommunities

“Leaders have a significant role in creating the state of mind that is the society….they can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations, carry them above the conflicts that tear society apart, and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.” ~John…

Mike KenslerMarch 2, 2016

Director's Corner SDG7 Updates

Director’s Corner: Renewable Energy: Things are Changing Fast, and They Need To

“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. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until…

Mike KenslerFebruary 3, 2016

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: We Love the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)!

“The greater danger for most of us isn’t that our aim is too high and miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” ~ Michelangelo Goals are important. They define specific conditions we’d like to achieve in the future. Goals can be short or long-term, personal…

Mike KenslerJanuary 8, 2016

Director's Corner Updates

Sustainability in 2015: The Good, the Bad, and Opportunities for 2016

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” ~Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities These opening words from A Tale of Two Cities were first published in 1859. Looking back at the year 2015, they could have been written yesterday. Any attempt to create…

Mike KenslerNovember 23, 2015

Updates

Auburn University Signs Pledge to Demonstrate Support for Strong International Climate Action

The 2015 UN Climate Change Conference is in Paris. Auburn University recently joined more than 200 other colleges and universities in signing the American Campuses on Climate Pledge. The White House Council on Environmental Quality organized this effort to demonstrate support in higher education for strong international action on climate…

Mike KenslerNovember 20, 2015

Director's Corner

Director’s Corner: “An Inseparable Web of Relationships”

“When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” -John Muir American culture celebrates the rugged individualist; the self-made man (or woman); pulling one’s self up by the bootstraps; self-reliance; independence; going it alone. Certainly there is much to…

Mike KenslerOctober 29, 2015

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Reconnecting with Nature: Dropping Cares Like Autumn Leaves

“Time, time, time, see what’s become of me.” - Paul Simon, “A Hazy Shade of Winter” “ holds that a reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, wellbeing, spirit, and survival.” - Richard Louv, The Nature Principle “Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once…

Mike KenslerSeptember 30, 2015

Director’s Corner: Effort + Relaxation Keeps Us in the Game

From Earth Day to Sustainability and STARS: Making a Significant Difference

Director’s Corner: Waste? Humans Invented It. Nature Never Heard of It.

Director’s Corner: Transformational Leadership and Megacommunities

Director’s Corner: Renewable Energy: Things are Changing Fast, and They Need To

Director’s Corner: We Love the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)!

Sustainability in 2015: The Good, the Bad, and Opportunities for 2016

Auburn University Signs Pledge to Demonstrate Support for Strong International Climate Action

Director’s Corner: “An Inseparable Web of Relationships”

Director’s Corner: Reconnecting with Nature: Dropping Cares Like Autumn Leaves

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