Mike Kensler, Author at Office of Sustainability

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Director’s Corner: The Earth-Friendly, People-Friendly, Two-Wheeled, Human-Powered People Mover

Sometimes the awesomeness of common devices is taken for granted. A bicycle is such a device, especially when viewed through the lens of sustainability. A bike tour of all four points of the Sustainability Compass, Nature, Economy, Society, and individual Wellbeing, tells the story. Biking and Nature: It takes far…

Mike KenslerSeptember 1, 2015

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Auburn Earns U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools Award

Dr. Nanette Chadwick and Mike Kensler accepting the US Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools Award from Department of Education officials. In June of this summer the Director of Academic Sustainability Programs, and Nanette Chadwick, and I traveled to Washington D.C. to receive the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon…

Mike KenslerAugust 13, 2015

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Director’s Corner: Jump In!!

“There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” Nelson Mandela “Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” …

Mike KenslerAugust 7, 2015

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Director’s Corner: Earth Day and the Power of Citizens to Create Change

A rally in Philadelphia during the first Earth Day celebration. Photo Credit: AP "Never in my long lifetime have I ever seen such an aroused populace at the grassroots level. This oil pollution has done something I have never seen before in Santa Barbara – it has united citizens of…

Mike KenslerApril 3, 2015

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Director’s Corner: The Climate Change Conversation: Adapt and Mitigate

“Climate change: adapting to what we can’t prevent, and preventing what we can’t adapt to.” Dr. Stephen Schneider, Stanford University “We’re staring down a climate bubble that poses enormous risks to both our environment and economy. The warning signs are clear and growing more urgent as the risks go unchecked. …

Mike KenslerMarch 5, 2015

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Director’s Corner: Business Must Play a Key Role in Creating a Sustainable Future

“In a world of constrained natural capital, social capital, and human capital, optimizing only return on financial capital imprisons business in the shadow of a distant past.” Arie de Gues, Former executive at Royal Dutch Shell “We’ve reached a tipping point. Our planet and our society are at risk. Business…

Mike KenslerFebruary 5, 2015

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Director’s Corner: The Sustainability Compass: Systems Thinking, Prisms, & Tapestries

“We need to work together to optimize the system as a whole, not to seek to optimize separate pieces... Optimizing separate pieces destroys the effectiveness of the whole. For the organization to work well as a whole, the components must work together.” Brian Joiner “We don't accomplish anything in this…

Mike KenslerJanuary 15, 2015

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Director’s Corner: Self-Care and Healing the World

“Self-care is never a selfish act – it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on this earth to offer to others. Any time we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do so not only…

Mike KenslerNovember 6, 2014

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Director’s Corner: Thought for Food

“You know that what you eat you are.” ~The Beatles “The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.” ~Joel Salatin “There is real power in our forks, I've discovered. There is hope here. We see it once we…

Mike KenslerOctober 7, 2014

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Director’s Corner: Community Service that Empowers Citizens

“A determined effort by colleges and universities to promote civic and social responsibility among their students could do much to improve the quality of civic life in America.” Michael McPherson “We stand at the beginning of a world in which free citizens, across boundaries and borders, learn to act together…

Mike KenslerSeptember 5, 2014

Director’s Corner: The Earth-Friendly, People-Friendly, Two-Wheeled, Human-Powered People Mover

Auburn Earns U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools Award

Director’s Corner: Jump In!!

Director’s Corner: Earth Day and the Power of Citizens to Create Change

Director’s Corner: The Climate Change Conversation: Adapt and Mitigate

Director’s Corner: Business Must Play a Key Role in Creating a Sustainable Future

Director’s Corner: The Sustainability Compass: Systems Thinking, Prisms, & Tapestries

Director’s Corner: Self-Care and Healing the World

Director’s Corner: Thought for Food

Director’s Corner: Community Service that Empowers Citizens

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