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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Africa Water is Life Water Gathering in Villages

In rural Mozambique women are responsible for the provision of basic necessities, such as food, shelter and water. The intra-household divisions between men and women in sub-Saharan families and commu...

Gary Braasch’s Images of Change: Documenting a Warming World

My work as a professional journalist and environmental photographer led me to climate change 11 years ago when I found my first independent funding source – a small environmental fo...

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...

National Guard Engineers Facilitating Cooperative Relationships

In recent years, the role of National Guard reserves has expanded from a predominantly U.S.-based presence to global service providers and partners for developing countries around the world. For some ...

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 ...

Disappearing Cultures Paraguay’s Indigenous Tribes

When the original colonists settled in the Americas, they came by ship and resided in the areas closest to the sea. As history progressed, the local indigenous populations were either eliminated or as...

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...

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...
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