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Empowering Women in Tanzania
Women entrepreneurs are increasingly recognized for the success of their businesses and for the important contributions to their countries’ economic well-being. A growing body of research indicate...
The African Lion: Dinner or Endangered?
Eeven while the African lion is under review by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FSW) with regard to a possible listing status under the Endangered Species Act, the king of the jungle is becoming re...
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...
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...
Articulation to Action: the Air Force’s Energy Future
Adialogue has been ongoing about going green since the first Earth Day in the 1970s. We’ve made many strides in the direction of energy conservation and being more respectful of our planet. But 2013...
NY Statewide Energy Efficiency: Motivating Residents One Home at a Time
As New York State pursues its aggressive energy efficiency goals, which includes decreasing projected electricity use 15 percent by 2015, the task of motivating New York homeowners to implement sustai...
Letters to Pushkin: From Loss to Inspiration & Healing
Iwas blessed to have Pushkin in my life and in our home for just over nine years. Throughout the years, he continually proved himself a resilient but gentle soul. He was feisty. He was peaceful. He wa...
The Challenge of Change & Reality of Environmental Threats
As a clinical neuropsychologist, who has studied the intricacies of how the human brain operates for the last 20 years, it still remains fascinating to observe the difficult process of change even whe...
The Reputation Economy: Creating a Sustainable Business Strategy
In 1987 the Brundtland Commission Report defined sustainable development for the environment as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generation...
Restoring Global Fisheries: Three Simple Principles for Sensible Reform
It is no secret that oceans are ailing. Statistics abound to remind people of their precarious state: Catch is declining even as fishing efforts increase; once iconic stocks now face collapse, and gov...
America’s Addiction to Energy
Can I see a show of hands for those who want to use less energy? Of course no one wants to use less energy. That would be like asking if anyone would like to breathe less. Energy, like air, makes qual...
Rebuilding Resilience on the Land Ecological Restoration & the Hydrological Cycle
Agently meandering creek brings cool water to a southeast Wisconsin landscape scorched by record-breaking temperatures combined with zero rainfall. The farmer, taking a break from heart-rending work t...
Nature & Adaptability: Solutions for an Uncertain World
Much needed and welcome growth is occurring in the business of looking to nature for ideas and inspiration on how people can make society function better. Initially, these adoptions seemed to come in ...
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 ...
Social Entrepreneurship Growing a Business while Changing Lives
Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, led only by oil. As a mature industry, supply chains are fully developed and controlled from coffee bean to grocery shelf. While premium bra...
Charity Isn’t Enough Moving Toward Sustainable Humanitarian Aid
Mrs. Biba suffers from chronic arsenic poisoning; the signs (thickened, darkened and scaling skin) are clearly visible on her hands. She has been drinking and cooking with arsenic-contaminated water f...
Science & Intelligence Analysis
Intelligence analysis is a dynamic, interactive battle of wits played under complex, uncertain circumstances. Analysts must gather evidence from open and classified sources, evaluate its credibility, ...
National Security & Distributed Power Generation
Nine years ago on what was otherwise a regular summer day in Northern Ohio, a high-voltage transmission line sagged because of the high current passing through it and clipped an untrimmed tree branch ...
CH2M HILL A Holistic Approach to Building Performance
Not long ago designing and constructing a “sustainable building” meant complying with a lengthy checklist of “do’s” and “don’ts” without a holistic approach to achieving true sustainab...
Green Schools: A 21st Century Imperative
In a recent paper prepared for the upcoming Rio +20 Earth Summit, to be held in Rio de Janeiro June 20...
Promoting Sustainable Water Systems
In 1787 the Founding Fathers knew they were forging a charter of freedom to create a new nation by the voice of the people. What they did not realize is that 225 years later the United States would co...
Building Better Roads
Years ago, leading geologists ridiculed naturalist John Muir’s observations that persistent forces of water were responsible for carving Yosemite Valley. Just as the presence of glaciers one million...
Greening a Growing Infrastructure Crisis
In President Barack Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address he declared, “There’s never been a better time to build.” I could not agree more. “So much of America needs to be rebuilt,” the ...
CH2M HILL Better Environmental Remediation Outcomes
Tug on anything at all and you’ll find it connected to everything else in the universe,” said conservationist John Muir. Nowhere is this more accurate than in remediation – the science of cleani...
CH2M HILL’s Systems Thinking: Sustainable Water in a Changing Climate
People depend on government agencies and municipalities to efficiently manage their water resources for sustainable uses and environmental protection. Water infrastructure currently designed to cope w...
Behaviorally Realistic Solutions to Environmental Problems
Why don’t people: set thermostats to use less energy when they are out of the house; cancel mail catalogs they never open; check their tire pressure regularly; ask whether their nursery stocks non-i...
Florian Schulz’s To the Arctic Intimate Photographs of Arctic Wildlife
Throughout the course of several years, award-winning wildlife photographer Florian Schulz has traveled to remote locations in the American and European Arctic to photograph their astounding diversity...
Atkins North America Right-Sizing Air Force Real Property
United States military civil engineers and facility managers are working hard to find ways to reduce their facilities’ carbon footprints, to optimize space and to improve energy efficiency while sti...
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