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Director’s Corner: Overconsumption, Climate Change, the Doughnut, & Wellbeing Director's CornerSustainable Development Goal 8

Director’s Corner: Overconsumption, Climate Change, the Doughnut, & Wellbeing

“There is a world of difference between well-being and being well-off.” Stefan Klein, The Science of Happiness Imagine an economy and a future where Wellbeing, the western point on the Sustainability Compass, one of the four system conditions of a sustainable world, is the point and the goal; and a…
Mike Kensler
October 3, 2019
Director’s Corner: The Oceans Cradle All Life on Earth & Require Immediate Protection & Restoration Director's CornerNewsletter Archived UpdatesSustainable Development Goal 14Sustainable Development Goal 6

Director’s Corner: The Oceans Cradle All Life on Earth & Require Immediate Protection & Restoration

“It ought to be hard for a species that occupies roughly 10% of the earth’s land to mess up 70% of the planet’s entire surface. Yet humans are well on the way to wrecking the oceans.” Jennifer Duggan, Time, February 4, 2019 Life on Earth began in primitive seas about…
Mike Kensler
April 12, 2019
Director’s Corner: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are ‘No Little Plans’ Director's CornerNewsletter Archived Updates

Director’s Corner: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are ‘No Little Plans’

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work…." — Daniel Hudson Burnham “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there” is a paraphrase of…
Mike Kensler
March 19, 2019
Director’s Corner: The Sustainability Movement is a Social Justice Movement Director's CornerNewsletter Archived Updates

Director’s Corner: The Sustainability Movement is a Social Justice Movement

“he environmental movement can be seen as humanity’s response to contagious policies killing the earth, while the social justice movement addresses economic and legislated pathogens that destroy families, bodies, cultures, and communities.  They are two sides of the same coin, because when you harm one you harm the other.” -Paul…
Mike Kensler
February 6, 2019