Sustainability : Center for a Better Life : Dec 2011 livebetter eMagazine

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Department of Defense, The Push for Natural Security: "In the first semester of 2011, natural disasters had a devastating impact on human society. Preliminary EM-DAT figures showed the occurrence of 108 natural disasters, which killed more than 23,000 people, affected nearly 44 million others and caused more than US $253 billion of economic damages. Sixty-one countries...

NASA's CASI, Building Climate-Resilient NASA Centers: NASA Centers are currently experiencing heavy downpours, heatwaves and coastal flooding, and these are expected to increase in the coming decades due to climate variability and change. The United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) 2009 Climate Impacts Report concluded that "[h]uman-induced climate change...

Resources for the Future, Securing Water for a Secure Future: Perusing headlines across the United States, the poetic refrain of Samuel Coleridge comes to mind: "Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink." The refrain referenced oceans, but it seems increasingly applicable as many parts of the United States and the globe struggle with water challenges. A national report a few years ago...

Weston Solutions, Deepwater Horizon From Challenge to Opportunity? On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico 40 miles off the Louisiana shore. In addition to loss of life, the massive amount of crude oil leaking into the water would lead to human, economic and environmental disaster, sending shockwaves throughout the region's natural systems...

Navy Medicine, Bringing Hope, Security & Stability: On January 12, 2010, the Haitian people suffered a devastating earthquake, which decimated most infrastructure and homes, and killed and injured thousands. The suffering was unimaginable, and the need for an immediate international humanitarian response was paramount. Immediately following the earthquake, the Navy Hospital ship...

Canada and its First Nations, Reconciliation & Forgiveness: Many [First Nations] residential school survivors and their families have no identity beyond their church and what they learned in school. With no identity and without acceptance, they are banished to the margins of society. Although this generation might be more accepting - with access to more social programs and numerous political, legal...

HDR, Supporting Sustainable Fish Habitats: Approximately 20 percent of the world's freshwater fish species have become extinct, threatened or endangered in recent years, and some 75 percent of the major marine stocks are either depleted, overexploited or being fished at their biological limit, according to the World Summit on Sustainable Development's 2002 Johannesburg...

Worth Knowing: Information of Interest: Norway, Australia and the Netherlands lead the world in the 2011 Human Development Index (HDI) while the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger and Burundi are at the bottom of the annual rankings of national achievement in health, education and income, released November by the United Nations Development...

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 of life. His new book, To the Arctic, includes expansive images showing the incredible size of the Arctic wilderness as well as...

Navy Rear Adm. Kurt Kunkel, Alternative Fuels & Renewable Energy: Energy is essential to our warfighter's mission success. Without it, planes don't fly, tanks don't roll, satellites don't launch and ships don't sail. The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Energy has been satisfying the warfighter's energy needs for more than 60 years. Today, the growth of our military services' energy needs is redefining...

Atkins' Keith Clarke, Engineering a Low-Carbon Society: Climate change puts the engineering profession at the threshold of the biggest fundamental change to our economy and our society since the last industrial revolution. Combating climate change requires a massive transformation of infrastructure networks, in particular, the urgent reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or...

International Thought Leaders, Environmental Security: "The tsunami which devastated countries around the Indian Ocean December 2004 tragically brought home the importance of environmental security. For it showed that - despite all humanity's attempts to achieve political, economic and even military security - it can still be overwhelmed by the forces of natur. Growing overuse of resources...

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