Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dempsey: The Importance of Being Resilient

I want to challenge you to think about how you prepare for the storms of life. . . . Life will call on you to be really resilient. When things don’t work the first, the second, or even the 10th or ...

Dancing in the Rays of the Antarctic

Antarctica is both a place where Nature has conquered Man and a journey experienced by only .03 percent of the world’s population.  The continent’s pristine beauty is a testament to why the world...

Aligning Security, Climate Change & Conservation

On May 10, 2013, a grim milestone occurred as scientists at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory announced an average daily atmospheric carbon dioxide reading just above 400 parts per million, thus confir...

Climate Change & Economic Development

Global changes in temperature and weather, driven by accumulating greenhouse gases (GHG), are beginning to exacerbate food insecurity, displace coastal communities and undermine livelihoods, especiall...

USACE & the Environment: Teaching Real-World Science to Students

On April 22, 2013, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Europe District Environmental Branch colleagues Vanessa Pepi, Erika McCormick and Nicole Silva presented Earth Day topics to more than 200 stude...

Oneness & Our Original Self: Shifting to a New Way of Living

Recently there has been much talk about “Oneness,” which is the state or condition of perfect harmony. Within this state, our “original” self is being revealed to each and every one of us. As ...

Team 5 Remote Medical Foundation: Helping San Marcos Earthquake Victims

Guatemala’s Quebrada Seca is one of the most remote areas on the globe, which is why local Mayans are very wary of outsiders and strangers. This includes five Americans from Team 5 Medical Foundatio...

Admiral Sam Locklear on Indo-Asia-Pacific Challenges & Opportunities

Why does the Asia Pacific region matter to the American people and the global population at large? The answer is self-evident when one realizes the area “really can’t be called a ‘region’ beca...

New Technology for a Greener Future: 12-Minute Cell Phone & Electric Car Charging

Sales of plug-in electric (PEV) and hybrid cars tripled in 2012 and are expected to double again in 2013. Still, they represent only a one digit percent of the 13 million vehicles sold in the United S...

Special Forces Medical Practitioners: Advancing Healthcare in Remote Regions

Team 5 (T5) is an inspired medical foundation created by professionals who enjoy traveling to the ends of the globe to provide a unique service to those without access to modern healthcare. Volunteers...

A Community of Collaboration: Whidbey Island & Sustainable Agriculture

Industrialization of agriculture has taken a large toll on small, family farms. In the last century, the number of farms fell nearly 65 percent, and the farm labor force dropped from 41 to 1.9 percent...

Business Thinking Ahead: Building the 21st Century Business Model

Business strategy and business sustainability are incongruent. Business strategy, as it is currently conceptualized, promotes profit maximizing through growth. Yet, global society is reaching its limi...

Squeezed Like Lemons: Hawaii PUC Mistreats Citizen-Solar Producers

In February 2012, my wife, Elizabeth, and I started an amazing educational journey on uses and abuses of energy on our planet. Our first-ever adventure with an electric car during a weekend trip to Oa...

A History of Haiti: The Politics of Poverty

Haiti’s independence from France on January 1, 1804, marked the beginning of the first modern state governed by people of African descent. It was the second nation in the Western Hemisphere to achie...

Climate Reform & Social Justice: A Plea for Parity in Communities of Color

With the devastation from Hurricane Sandy fresh in our minds, it is time to deliberatively address the menacing climate change concerns that are facing our planet and their disparate impacts on commun...

The New Frontier: Restoring Natural Capital & Sustainability

Humanity stands at the edge of a new frontier. Earth is at a critical threshold and global society’s ability to master the sustainability challenge within the next decade will determine whether the ...

Islam and Democracy: A Contradiction of Terms?

In August 2011, the Al Jazeera Centre for Studies organized a seminar, “Islamists and Arab Revolutions: Challenges of Democratic Transition and Rebuilding the State,” in Doha, the capital city of ...

The International Impact of the Drought

Our corn crop will not be the only casualty of the drought and high temperatures in the Midwest this summer. Food prices at home and food security abroad are also hanging in the balance. As corn price...

A Walk through History: An Insider’s View of the U.S. Coast Guard

On August 4, 2012, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) celebrated its 222nd anniversary. The event was vividly portrayed to Admiral Robert Papp, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, because...

The U.S. Coast Guard: A Unique Military Service in Every Way

Admiral Robert Papp, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, leads a vital military service with far-reaching responsibilities. One of these responsibilities currently receiving widespread attent...

Environment & Security: Uranium Waste in Tajikistan

In northern Tajikistan nearly 55 million tonnes of uranium waste remains in uncovered and unsecured sites. One of the largest dump sites, with about 12 million tonnes of radioactive waste, is in Tabos...

Running Out of Time: Climate Change Policy Failures

In January 2011, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) jointly announced that 2010 tied 2005 as the hottest years in...

A New Perspective on Persecution

According to two 2011 studies by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, 2.18 billion Christians and 1.6 billion Muslims exist around the globe,...

WINTERS: 1970-1980; Robert Glenn Ketchum’s First Published Portfolio

With his first published portfolio, WINTERS: 1970-1980, Robert Glenn Ketchum challenged the established status quo of landscape photography. He achieved this by rejecting the iconic “view” in favo...

Ocean Observing Systems Stimulating Interest in STEM

Ocean observing systems and ocean observatories are being developed and deployed in the U.S. and around the world to make sustained and continuous oceanographic measurements and to deliver that inform...

Harvesting Rainwater New Codes & Design Standards

The topic of water shortages is nothing new as cities around the globe struggle with drought, water quality, supply constraints and failing infrastructure. However, the idea of new plumbing codes and ...

U.S. Air Force Managing Wetlands at Hurlburt Field

Scientific research estimates that more than one-half of U.S. wetlands have been drained, dredged, flooded or filled since the beginning of colonial America with 45 percent of this loss due to urban d...

USACE’s Steve Stockton: The Urgent Need to Transform US Water Resources Infrastructure

Navigation channels that support international trade and produce one-third of U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP), almost 14 million jobs, flood-risk reduction that prevents $22.3 billion in average ann...

Reordering Life: Contemplate Contentment

Most of us were unconditionally loved and accepted even before we were conceived. We grew and evolved in a protected, ordered and predictable environment where we continued to be loved and accepted fo...

Kids Who Survived the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s

Like everyone else, I receive a mountain of mostly unwanted emails every day. However, once in a while I get something that makes me smile, lifts my spirits and reminds me that, even amidst all the cr...
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