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,...

Weston Solutions Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 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 leak...

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...

United States Navy Sustaining Leadership in STEM Education

Since very young, I have been fascinated by U.S. Naval science and technology from submarines to nuclear propulsion to the world’s most advanced aircraft to radar and advanced communications. Like s...

Veolia Water NA: GrowingBlue™ for a Water-Conscious Future

There is such a thing as too much information. More specifically, for many topics the internet is flush with information and much data. One can easily become overwhelmed, and, more frequently, not be ...

Vice Admiral Adam Robinson: The Nation’s First Black Navy Surgeon General

The first black Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy, Vice Admiral Adam Robinson, continues a proud tradition and belief in the importance of education, which began with his grandfather, who was an 1898 G...

Brain Skerry Ocean Soul

I am certain it was love at first sight, though I honestly cannot remember the first time I saw her. What I do know is that I fell in love with the sea as a child and from that early age my course was...

Information of Interest, Nov 2011

1. DOE Releases Inaugural Quadrennial Technology Review Report (www.energy.gov) – The Energy Department released its inaugural Quadrennial Technology Review report (DOE-QTR) – an assessment of the...

STEM Education & America’s Future

Many believe science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) are the foundation for future economic growth, national security and a sustainable environment for the United States. The U.S. is still a ...

The U.S. Navy’s Sustainability Imperative

In the second decade of the 21st Century an emergent concern is rapidly assuming a central position in the Navy, national and global consciousness. It is “sustainability.” Defined in va...

Johnson Controls Fort Bliss: Ground-Zero for Net Zero

It’s zero hour for a massive military initiative that’s aimed at saving lives, saving resources and saving millions of taxpayer dollars. With the April 2011 announcement of the U.S. Army’s Net Z...

USACE & Education Investing in America’s Youth

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is one team made up of a headquarters office, division offices, district offices, centers, labs and active components – each working to provide better, safer...

USDA & Advanced Biofuels Strengthening Agriculture & Military Links

At first glance it would seem that a Navy Aviation Boatswain’s Mate doing his job inspecting JP-5 jet fuel on an aircraft carrier and a farmer producing her wheat crop in Montana would have little i...

Office of Naval Research & Other Stakeholders: Advancing U.S. Education Initiatives

James Duderstadt and other stakeholders have challenged the U.S. Naval community to help America regain its footing on the global science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) landscape. Sec...

New uncontacted pictures validate Brazil’s Yanomami territory 20 years on

Survival International has released new pictures of an uncontacted Yanomami village in Brazil, 20 years after one of its crucial campaigns created the biggest forested indigenous territory in the worl...

Agribusiness Contributions to Members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees

Nov. 16, 2011 – With the upcoming presidential election accelerating the focus on November 2012, one issue that will most likely be decided before either President Obama takes a second term or one o...

US Forest Service Teams With Society Of American Foresters on Research to Help Land Managers Integrate Energy, Products and Land Management Policy

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2011 – U.S. Forest Service scientists contributed to a far-reaching report that will help land managers make decisions about how forests are best managed to help offset carbon e...

Nation’s Mayors Asked to Stop Spread of Feral Cats

(Washington, D.C., November 9, 2011) American Bird Conservancy (ABC), the nation’s leading bird conservation organization, has called on the mayors of U.S. cities to stop the epidemic spread of fera...

Repairing the World Mobilizing Jews to Protect the Environment

What’s Jewish about caring for the environment? This is a core question that we, as leaders of Jewish organizations, ask ourselves all the time. The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COE...

HDR Architecture Health Design Interventions

Consider these statistics: Annual revenues for U.S. home fitness equipment manufacturers reached about $3 billion last year while the health club industry enjoyed revenues of $20.3 billion. Now ponder...

Honouring Life Network Tribal Youth Suicide

Ido not know exactly who my First Nations and Métis relatives are. My family tree is one of many Canadian family trees that include several mothers and grandmothers simply referred to as “Cree woma...

Information of Interest, Oct 2011

1. Wireless Safety Summit in Washington, D.C., October 5 and 6, 2011 (www.centerforsaferwireless.org) – The Center for Safer Wireless, a VA-based EMF advocacy group, is hosting a Wireless Safety Sum...

U.S. Forest Service: Unplugging America’s Children

Remember the feeling of wind brushing against your cheek or the momentary gasp as your boot slid on a big, slippery rock? Or, what about trees bursting with brilliant fall colors or the chirp, hoot an...

USACE Institute for Water Resources: Adapting to Climate & Global Change

Major 21st Century global challenges, alone and in combination, affect parts of all missions and operations carried out by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). These dynamic global and...

A Passion for Change Humanitarian Engineering

Be the change you wish to see in the world,” said Mahatma Ghandi. Both the ethics of justice and the ethics of care compel engineers and architects to take these words to heart as they work to make ...
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