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Mike Kensler

Blog post title: Clean Water, Sanitation, & Human Rights: What Do We Owe Our Neighbors? Director's CornerSustainable Development Goal 1 - No PovertySustainable Development Goal 11Sustainable Development Goal 3Sustainable Development Goal 6

Blog post title: Clean Water, Sanitation, & Human Rights: What Do We Owe Our Neighbors?

Directors Corner, February 2022 “Our collective failure to invest in adequate sanitation, clean drinking water, and effective response to pollution is taking life from the most vulnerable and marginalized among us.”  Bryan Stevenson What do you think?  Is access to clean water and sanitation a basic human right?  One would…
Mike Kensler
January 28, 2022
Blog post title: Addressing ‘the Greatest Human Rights Challenge in the World” Director's CornerSustainable Development Goal 5

Blog post title: Addressing ‘the Greatest Human Rights Challenge in the World”

“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 Kensler
January 12, 2022
Blog post title: Is the Response to Climate Change a War? Yes. And No. Director's CornerSustainable Development Goal 13Sustainable Development Goal 16

Blog post title: Is the Response to Climate Change a War? Yes. And No.

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 Kensler
November 2, 2021
Blog post title: Spaceship Earth & the “Ultimate Life Support System” Director's CornerSustainable Development Goal 14

Blog post title: Spaceship Earth & the “Ultimate Life Support System”

“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 Kensler
October 4, 2021
Blog post title: Climate Change 2021 & a “Quality Education” Director's CornerSustainable Development Goal 13Sustainable Development Goal 4Sustainable Development Goal 7Sustainable Development Goals

Blog post title: Climate Change 2021 & a “Quality Education”

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 Kensler
September 1, 2021
Blog post title: We are Partners in the Business of Preserving Life Director's CornerSustainable Development Goal 1 - No PovertySustainable Development Goal 17Sustainable Development Goal 2Sustainable Development Goal 9

Blog post title: We are Partners in the Business of Preserving Life

“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 Kensler
August 9, 2021