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Blog category: Director’s Corner

Reflections from a seasoned sustainability professional.

Director’s Corner: Hunger – There is No Excuse Director's CornerSustainable Development Goal 14Sustainable Development Goal 15Sustainable Development Goal 2

Blog post title: Director’s Corner: Hunger – There is No Excuse

The international Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were created by the nations of the world under the auspices of the United Nations. Tapping experts across the globe on a range of disciplines, seventeen goals were established with a deadline of 2030 for achieving each goal. The seventeen goal topics were identified…
Mike Kensler
September 10, 2020
Director’s Corner: The Wellbeing of Each is the Responsibility of All Director's CornerSustainable Development Goal 10Sustainable Development Goal 3

Blog post title: Director’s Corner: The Wellbeing of Each is the Responsibility of All

“The end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the Beloved Community. It is this type of spirit and this type of love that can transform opponents into friends. It is this type of understanding goodwill that will transform the deep gloom of the old…
Mike Kensler
July 31, 2020
Director’s Corner: Creating a New Normal: Where Do We Go From Here? Archived UpdatesDirector's Corner

Blog post title: Director’s Corner: Creating a New Normal: Where Do We Go From Here?

“…a new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.” ~Albert Einstein, New York Times, May 25, 1946 Times of disturbance and upheaval are always times of change. Societal structures loosen, sometimes fracture, and fundamental assumptions about the world are shaken. As societies…
Mike Kensler
May 7, 2020
At the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day It’s Lessons Have Yet to be Learned. Archived UpdatesDirector's Corner

Blog post title: At the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day It’s Lessons Have Yet to be Learned.

“We invade tropical forests and other wild landscapes, which harbor so many species of animals and plants—and within those creatures, so many unknown viruses. We cut the trees; we kill the animals or cage them and send them to markets. We disrupt ecosystems, and we shake viruses loose from their…
Mike Kensler
March 31, 2020
Director’s Corner: Eating as if Food is the Point Director's Corner

Blog post title: Director’s Corner: Eating as if Food is the Point

“What we discovered in Italy was that if an establishment serves food, then food is the point.” (original italicized). Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle In her marvelous book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver describes her food experiences during a trip to Italy.  She was amazed that wherever she and her…
Mike Kensler
March 4, 2020
Director’s Corner: Taking the Measure of Our Humanity in the 21st Century Director's Corner

Blog post title: 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

Blog post title: 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

Blog post title: 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

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

Blog post title: 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