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 ...

Navy “Stability Ops:” Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief

On 26 December 2004, an earthquake off Southeast Asia produced a tsunami, which resulted in the confirmed deaths of more than 130,000 people in Indonesia. The massive loss of life and injury, coupled ...

Interagency Exercise Hones Rescue Operations

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2011 – The largest federal interagency exercise for personnel rescue and recovery began Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., Oct. 9 with joint, coalition, interagency and intern...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Oceans in a Warming World

To most people, global warming means rising temperatures in the atmosphere or on Earth’s surface. They often overlook 70 percent of that surface – the ocean – where some of the most important ef...

Naval Research Technology Update

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) provides the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps with cutting-edge science and technology research that confronts tomorrow’s national security and energy challenges head-on...

The “Achilles’ Heel” of Islam: Terrorism, Violence & Interpretation of Qur’an

Religion is a powerful resource that has the ability to control massive numbers of people instantaneously. It can make believers strive to be the best possible person, or it can make humans do terribl...

Biocapacity & the Human Ecological Footprint

Climate change, grain shortages, reduced cropland productivity, soaring food prices – all these problems are converging at once, as if nature is in full-scale revolt. But none of these crises, thoug...

BP’s Deepwater Horizon America’s Haunting Catastrophe

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico and became the world’s largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. Methane gas, under extr...

Information of Interest, Sep 2011

1. Toxic School Supplies Pose Threat to Children’s Health (www.chej.org) – The average child’s character-themed backpack is filled with supplies and materials made from the most toxic plastic fo...

Effective Climate Change Messaging

Although an international consensus of scientists agree that global climate change can no longer be denied, many Americans are still skeptical and believe climate change lacks sufficient scientific su...

Improving Military Energy Behavior & Culture

Late 2008, the Office of the Secretary of Defense Power Surety Task Force (PSTF) made an unexpected discovery during a routine housing construction project at Fort Belvoir in Virginia.i In ...

CH2M HILL Climate Change & Innovative Urban Planning

In 2009 the National Association of Clean Water Agencies and Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies reported to Congress that climate change adaptation costs could range from $448 to $944 billion ...

Rear Admiral Phil Cullom: A Warrior’s Energy Ethos

Ihave always tried to look at things through the lens of a quarter of a century because when a person subscribes to the ‘art of the long view,’ he or she ends up making better strategic decisions....

Task Force Climate Change Climate Skepticism & Ways Forward

Climate skepticism is a good thing. Really. We should all question what we think we know and seek to refine our understanding of the truth. Skepticism is the very foundation of scientific inquiry, and...

Holding Back the Seas: Adapting to Sea Level Rise

Throughout history the world’s coastal cities were built and flourished during a period when global sea level has been near constant. However, during the last century tide gauge measurements and sat...

Admiral Sam Locklear on National Security & Global Change

The world we’re in today is undergoing as rapid a change as any in the history of mankind. Everything necessary to support the world’s population is changing at incredible rates causing increased ...

Air Mobility Command’s Response Saves Lives

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2011 – In wars, natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies, the Air Mobility Command’s real-time global response capability saves lives and brings people home, Air Force ...

Office of the Secretary of Defense: Green Technology Update

Located in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) br...

Serving as Witness to Environmental Change

The world is seeing gargantuan change the likes of which people haven’t experienced since the dawn of agriculture 8,000 years ago. Changing temperatures, rapid loss of ice and snow in arctic and alp...

Information of Interest, July/August 2011

1. DARPA Seeks to Employ Biology in Manufacturing (www.defensenews.gov) – The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for companies that can harness biology to speed up and lowe...

Next Generation Green Road Stabilization

Next generation road and highway engineering and construction product technologies are breaking with convention and advancing sustainability. One emergent alternative is a greener way to stabilize agg...

Frontier Fertilizer Superfund Site Groundwater Clean-up

Aneed for swift action that satisfies immediate budget constraints often creates decision-making tension between present and future priorities. However, at the contaminated Frontier Fertilizer Superfu...

Renewable Energy Goals & Pumped Storage Hydropower

Pumped storage hydroelectric projects have been providing valuable storage capacity, transmission grid ancillary benefits and renewable energy in the United States and Europe since the 1920s. Today, t...

Prototyping Net-Zero Federal Facilities

Net-Zero is a catchy phrase these days, particularly for most Federal agencies. For the Department of Energy (DOE), this term means that a building will save or produce as much energy as it uses. Howe...

Analyzing DoD’s Sustainable Energy Practice

US. Armed Forces “own” the largest number of the 500,000 Federal buildings; 600,000 vehicle fleet and 1.8 million Federal employees. Therefore, it only makes sense that a national policy for energ...

Air Force Focuses on Sustainable Installations

As our Nation’s senior military leaders note, our country is in a new paradigm. We can no longer operate as if budgets always rise and resources always replenish. We must make a com...

CH2M HILL What Makes a Roadway Green?

A  “green” roadway is not defined by its color but by its ability to fit into a community and to enable user-friendly connectivity for all potential travel modes. It highlights the strengths of i...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Sustainable Development in Afghanistan

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is constructing billions of dollars of infrastructure throughout Afghanistan. Incorporating green and sustainable solutions within a program of this size would...

EPA Partnering with State Capitals on Green Design and Economic Revitalization

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that through its Greening America’s Capitals (GAC) project, it will help the capital cities of Alabama, Arizona, Mississ...

President Obama Announces Historic 54.5 mpg Fuel Efficiency Standard

Consumers will save $1.7 trillion at the pump, $8K per vehicle by 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama today announced a historic agreement with thirteen major automakers to pursue the next phase i...
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