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Sustainable Community Planning Addresses the Racist Origins of Interstate Highways Guest PostsSDG11SDG8SDG9

Sustainable Community Planning Addresses the Racist Origins of Interstate Highways

By Rebecca Retzlaff.   For this month’s theme of sustainability goal 8: decent work and economic growth, I want to focus on transportation equity, an often-overlooked, but nonetheless essential, component of working and economic growth. A few years ago, my historic preservation planning class (CPLN 5400/6400) was working on a historic…
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January 21, 2021
Director’s Corner: Overconsumption, Climate Change, the Doughnut, & Wellbeing Director's CornerSDG8

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: Consumerism Drives Consumption that is Consuming the Planet Director's CornerSDG8Updates

Director’s Corner: Consumerism Drives Consumption that is Consuming the Planet

“People say they want to have it all.  But where would they put it?” Steven Wright The word “consumption” was used in ancient Greece almost 2,500 years ago to describe the disease pulmonary tuberculosis because the disease appeared to consume the body it had infected.  This form of consumption has…
Mike Kensler
October 31, 2018