Blog category: Director’s Corner

“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…

“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…

“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…

 “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…

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…

“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.” …

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…

“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. …