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

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 Kensler
February 3, 2020
Director’s Corner: Humanity’s growing ecological footprint: “the only measure which tracks how much nature we have – and how much nature we use.” Archived UpdatesDirector's Corner

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 Kensler
January 9, 2020
Director’s Corner: Solar Power & Climate Change–Closing the Emissions Gap Director's CornerSustainable Development Goal 13

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 Kensler
December 4, 2019
Director’s Corner: The Necessary & Inevitable Transportation Transformation Director's Corner

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 Kensler
November 13, 2019