Office of Sustainability

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: We Love the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)!

“The greater danger for most of us isn’t that our aim is too high and miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” ~ Michelangelo Goals are important. They define specific conditions we’d like to achieve in the future. Goals can be short or long-term, personal…

Mike KenslerJanuary 8, 2016

Director's Corner Updates

Sustainability in 2015: The Good, the Bad, and Opportunities for 2016

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” ~Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities These opening words from A Tale of Two Cities were first published in 1859. Looking back at the year 2015, they could have been written yesterday. Any attempt to create…

Mike KenslerNovember 23, 2015

Director's Corner

Director’s Corner: “An Inseparable Web of Relationships”

“When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” -John Muir American culture celebrates the rugged individualist; the self-made man (or woman); pulling one’s self up by the bootstraps; self-reliance; independence; going it alone. Certainly there is much to…

Mike KenslerOctober 29, 2015

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Reconnecting with Nature: Dropping Cares Like Autumn Leaves

“Time, time, time, see what’s become of me.” - Paul Simon, “A Hazy Shade of Winter” “ holds that a reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, wellbeing, spirit, and survival.” - Richard Louv, The Nature Principle “Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once…

Mike KenslerSeptember 30, 2015

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: The Earth-Friendly, People-Friendly, Two-Wheeled, Human-Powered People Mover

Sometimes the awesomeness of common devices is taken for granted. A bicycle is such a device, especially when viewed through the lens of sustainability. A bike tour of all four points of the Sustainability Compass, Nature, Economy, Society, and individual Wellbeing, tells the story. Biking and Nature: It takes far…

Mike KenslerSeptember 1, 2015

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Jump In!!

“There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” Nelson Mandela “Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” …

Mike KenslerAugust 7, 2015

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Earth Day and the Power of Citizens to Create Change

A rally in Philadelphia during the first Earth Day celebration. Photo Credit: AP "Never in my long lifetime have I ever seen such an aroused populace at the grassroots level. This oil pollution has done something I have never seen before in Santa Barbara – it has united citizens of…

Mike KenslerApril 3, 2015

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: The Climate Change Conversation: Adapt and Mitigate

“Climate change: adapting to what we can’t prevent, and preventing what we can’t adapt to.” Dr. Stephen Schneider, Stanford University “We’re staring down a climate bubble that poses enormous risks to both our environment and economy. The warning signs are clear and growing more urgent as the risks go unchecked. …

Mike KenslerMarch 5, 2015

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Business Must Play a Key Role in Creating a Sustainable Future

“In a world of constrained natural capital, social capital, and human capital, optimizing only return on financial capital imprisons business in the shadow of a distant past.” Arie de Gues, Former executive at Royal Dutch Shell “We’ve reached a tipping point. Our planet and our society are at risk. Business…

Mike KenslerFebruary 5, 2015

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: The Sustainability Compass: Systems Thinking, Prisms, & Tapestries

“We need to work together to optimize the system as a whole, not to seek to optimize separate pieces... Optimizing separate pieces destroys the effectiveness of the whole. For the organization to work well as a whole, the components must work together.” Brian Joiner “We don't accomplish anything in this…

Mike KenslerJanuary 15, 2015

Director’s Corner: We Love the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)!

Sustainability in 2015: The Good, the Bad, and Opportunities for 2016

Director’s Corner: “An Inseparable Web of Relationships”

Director’s Corner: Reconnecting with Nature: Dropping Cares Like Autumn Leaves

Director’s Corner: The Earth-Friendly, People-Friendly, Two-Wheeled, Human-Powered People Mover

Director’s Corner: Jump In!!

Director’s Corner: Earth Day and the Power of Citizens to Create Change

Director’s Corner: The Climate Change Conversation: Adapt and Mitigate

Director’s Corner: Business Must Play a Key Role in Creating a Sustainable Future

Director’s Corner: The Sustainability Compass: Systems Thinking, Prisms, & Tapestries

Search

Categories

Categories

Archives

Archives

Events

Email Updates

Email Updates