Colonel (Ret.) Mark Mykleby on 21st Century Security

It’s common knowledge the Department of Defense (DoD) has considered the science of climate change, and it has accepted the conclusion that it’s real (reference the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review...

Environmental Change & Emerging Threats

According to Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO looks at environmental change very carefully because of its increasing impact on security. The Intern...

January 2012 Headlines

1DoD-NRDC Database Helps Identify Renewable Energy Sites (www.nrdc.org) – The Defense of Department (DoD) joined the National Resources Defense Co...

Draper Laboratory: The Growing Menace of Orbital Debris

The world is critically dependent on satellites in Earth orbit for global communications, navigation, weather forecasts, environment and resource monitoring, and numerous security functions. But, imag...

Mage Solar Understanding Solar Basics

It doesn’t take a solar expert to realize that the magnificent concept of clean, reliable and easy to deploy solar energy is unstoppably making its way into the collective conscience of society. Sol...

Christian Ziegler: The World of Wild Orchids

Confucius called them the “king of fragrant plants,” and John Ruskin condemned them as “prurient apparitions.” Across the centuries, orchids have captivated us with their elaborate exoticism,...

Information of Interest, Jan 2012

1. A National Security Imperative to Reduce U.S. Oil Dependence (www.cna.org) – The Center for Naval Analysis’ (CNA) Oct. 2011 report, A National Security Imperative to Reduce U.S. Oil Dependence,...

US Navy RADM Eccles: Surface Ship Energy Efficiency Initiatives

The United States Navy faces significant challenges with volatile and rising energy costs as well as with the security of its energy supplies. In 2009, Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Ray Mabus set goa...

NCDMM Sustainable Military Manufacturing

For many manufacturing companies, improving sustainability of manufacturing processes is a daunting task – strategically, tactically and economically. All too often manufacturers quickly find themse...

Resources for the Future: Landscapes as DoD Missionscapes

Several decades ago, environmental scholar and author Barry Commoner remarked on the “interconnectedness of everything.” Yet governing institutions and resource managers, decades after Commoner’...

HDR Solid Waste Innovations

In 2010 the U.S. generated 250 million tons of trash, or municipal solid waste (MSW), and recycled and composted almost 85 million tons. On average, Americans recycled and composted 1.51 pounds of the...

Saving Energy & Costs Green Technology Road Improvements

After the long gas station lines of the two OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) crises of the 1970s, the onus for reducing fuel consumption was placed squarely on the consumer by mand...

Draper Laboratory Solving Military Energy Challenges

While previous Executive Orders and Federal legislation have been useful in moving Federal Agencies toward sustainability and, in many cases, have spelled out numerical targets to be achieved, the 201...

Acid Rain Study Show Substantial Decreases, But More Progress Is Needed

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Measurable improvements in air quality and visibility, human health, and water quality in many acid-sensitive lakes and streams, have been achieved through emissions reductions fr...

NASA’s Social Innovation Concept: Human Development & Space Exploration

NASA Johnson Space Center’s (JSC) social innovation concept encourages out-of-the-box problem solving within the NASA community to benefit both NASA’s core mission and humanity’s most pressing n...

U.S. Forces Rescue Second Iranian Vessel

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2012 – For the second time in a week, a U.S. vessel has rescued Iranian mariners from a distressed vessel in regional waters. A team from the guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd, ...

International Thought Leaders Environmental Security & Natural Disasters

1.Geoffrey Lean on Environmental Security, U.N. Environment Programme “The tsunami which devastated countries around the Indian Ocean December 2004 tragically brought home the importance of e...

Atkins 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...

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...

Information of Interest, Dec 2011

1. UN Development Programme’s 2011 Human Development Index (http://hdr.undp.org) – Norway, Australia and the Netherlands lead the world in the 2011 Human Development Index (HDI) while the Democrat...

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, ove...

Navy Medicine: Bringing Hope, Security & Stability to the World

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...

Canada and its First Nations Moving Toward Reconciliation & Forgiveness

On 11 June 2008, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivered in Parliament a Statement of Apology on behalf of the Government of Canada to survivors of Indian Residential Schools. In the apology,...

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 inc...

NASA’s CASI: Building Climate-Resilient NASA Centers

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Centers are currently experiencing heavy downpours, heatwaves and coastal flooding, and these are expected to increase in the coming decades due to...

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 2...

Face of Defense: Military Dog Survives Snakebite

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C., Dec. 22, 2011 – Dingo, a 5-year-old Marine Corps military working dog, has survived a bout with a poisonous snake. Dingo, a German shepherd, was struck b...

Christmas Reindeer Mystery as World’s Largest Herd Plummets

The world’s largest reindeer herd has plummeted in size, with local indigenous people blaming the spread of massive industrial projects in the area. The George River herd, which once numbered 8-900,...

Violence engulfs Kenyan tribe just miles from royal hideaway

A Kenyan tribe living near the area famous for its links to Prince William and Kate Middleton’s engagement has been engulfed by violence after wildlife charities arranged to buy their land. Kenya’...

NOAA activates GOES-15 satellite; deactivates GOES-11 after nearly 12 years in orbit

For 12 years, GOES-11, one of NOAA’s geostationary satellites, tracked weather and severe storms that impacted the U.S. West Coast, Hawaii and the Pacific region. Today, NOAA began the process to de...
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