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Director’s Corner: Reinventing Food: The Changing Paradigm of Food Production

“If you want to feed your family healthy food, you gotta ask a lot of questions.” Yvan Chouinard, Founder of Patagonia I just watched an inspiring film about sustainable food production, Unbroken Ground, by Patagonia Provisions. In 26 minutes it offers a large dose of hope in four sections, telling…

Mike KenslerJanuary 11, 2017

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Director’s Corner: ‘Mankind is Our Business:’ Sustainability & Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!” The ghost of Jacob Marley, speaking to Ebenezer Scrooge ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas…

Mike KenslerDecember 1, 2016

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Director’s Corner: Global Warming/Climate Change/Anthropogenic Climate Disruption: What Can We Do that Makes a Difference?

“Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.” Bill Gates In many ways, climate change, global warming, anthropogenic climate disruption – whatever you want to call it – is old news. Old news in that the science has…

Mike KenslerOctober 31, 2016

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Director’s Corner: Citizenship and Sustainability

“We’ve all but forgotten that public participation is the very soul of democratic citizenship, and that it can profoundly enrich our lives.” Paul Rogat Loeb, Soul of a Citizen The future of our nation and the planet we inhabit depends on our willingness to more fully exercise our rights and…

Mike KenslerSeptember 29, 2016

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Director’s Corner: Making a Difference Right Where We Are

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt Climate change. The Zika virus. Terrorism. These are complex global issues. As individuals it can seem like there is not much we can do about them. Actually, there are things we can do like informing ourselves, changing…

Mike KenslerAugust 30, 2016

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Director’s Corner: Welcome

“One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals. When we pool our strength and share the work and responsibility, we can welcome many people, even those in deep distress, and perhaps help them find…

Mike KenslerAugust 10, 2016

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Director’s Corner: Effort + Relaxation Keeps Us in the Game

“There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation;” -- Lewis Carroll It’s hard to believe the fall and spring terms of the 2016-2017 academic year are over. The impression I get from everyone I’ve talked with since August is that folks have been busy,…

Mike KenslerApril 29, 2016

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Director’s Corner: Waste? Humans Invented It. Nature Never Heard of It.

“Nature doesn’t have a design problem. People do.” ~William McDonough and Michael Braungart in Cradle to Cradle Our mental models, store our internal assumptions about the way the world works, determine how we see and behave in the world. We accept unexamined assumptions as the way things are, the way…

Mike KenslerApril 7, 2016

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Director’s Corner: Transformational Leadership and Megacommunities

“Leaders have a significant role in creating the state of mind that is the society….they can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations, carry them above the conflicts that tear society apart, and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.” ~John…

Mike KenslerMarch 2, 2016

Director's Corner SDG7 Updates

Director’s Corner: Renewable Energy: Things are Changing Fast, and They Need To

“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. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until…

Mike KenslerFebruary 3, 2016

Director’s Corner: Reinventing Food: The Changing Paradigm of Food Production

Director’s Corner: ‘Mankind is Our Business:’ Sustainability & Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”

Director’s Corner: Global Warming/Climate Change/Anthropogenic Climate Disruption: What Can We Do that Makes a Difference?

Director’s Corner: Citizenship and Sustainability

Director’s Corner: Making a Difference Right Where We Are

Director’s Corner: Welcome

Director’s Corner: Effort + Relaxation Keeps Us in the Game

Director’s Corner: Waste? Humans Invented It. Nature Never Heard of It.

Director’s Corner: Transformational Leadership and Megacommunities

Director’s Corner: Renewable Energy: Things are Changing Fast, and They Need To

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