Mike recommends reading The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler and shares the story behind his Myrtle Beach Pelicans ball cap.
Mike KenslerJanuary 14, 2022
“I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.” ~Malala Yousafzai The 193 nations that created the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) determined SDG 5, Achieve Gender…
Mike KenslerJanuary 12, 2022
As I write this, the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties – COP 26 for short – is about to convene in Glasgow Scotland. It opens on October 31 and ends on November 12. Before 1995 when COP 1 was convened we already knew that planetary warming…
Mike KenslerNovember 2, 2021
“I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.” ~ Buckminster Fuller Imagine yourself on the International Space Station (ISS). You’re up there captivated by views of our beautiful planet, doing experiments, completing assigned tasks, living, and floating weightless. Hurtling around the world at over 17,000 miles per hour, there is…
Mike KenslerOctober 4, 2021
By Mike Kensler. For September, this column continues our tour of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this month focusing on SDG 4: Quality Education. Sort of. As I write this in late August 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just released its Sixth Assessment Report, also…
Mike KenslerSeptember 1, 2021
Mike recommends reading The New Possible: Visions of Our World Beyond Crisis by One Project and shares the story behind his Albuquerque Isotopes ball cap.
Mike KenslerAugust 30, 2021
“A successful development agenda requires inclusive partnerships — at the global, regional, national, and local levels — built upon principles and values, and upon a shared vision and shared goals placing people and the planet at the centre.” ~ Sustainable Development Goal 17 The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are a…
Mike KenslerAugust 9, 2021
Mike recommends reading The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson and shares the story behind his Daytona Tortugas ball cap.
Mike KenslerJuly 15, 2021
Mike recommends reading All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson and shares the story behind his Louisville Bats ball cap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKkFx4qpEXo
Mike KenslerMarch 31, 2021
“The future is not set in stone. Some amount of change is inevitable. It’s as if we’ve been smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for decades, but we don’t have lung cancer yet. The amount of change that we’re going to see—whether it’s serious, whether it’s dangerous, whether it’s…
Mike KenslerMarch 29, 2021
