Office of the Secretary of Defense Designing and Procuring Greener Weapon Systems

Chemicals are essential components in Department of Defense (DoD) weapon systems, but DoD faces long-term risk from its use of hazardous and toxic chemicals and materials. Employment of these chemical...

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 ...

21st Century Cities Why Greening Matters

We could barely see the grass – a small island of green amid a sea of concrete rooftop at the Interior Department’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. But, for the Nation’s premier ...

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...

Winds of Change: Renewable Power in Afghanistan

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has been aggressively building infrastructure in Afghanistan to facilitate the country’s stabilizatio...

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...

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...

EPA Proposes Air Pollution Standards for Oil and Gas Production

Cost-effective, flexible standards rely on operators’ ability to capture and sell natural gas that currently escapes, threatens air quality July 28, 2011 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protec...

NOAA, U.S. Department of Energy and Private Partners Launch Project to Reduce the Cost of Energy

There has not always been a need to know precisely how hard the wind blows 350 feet above Earth’s surface. Today, wind turbines occupy that zone of the atmosphere, generating electricity. So NOAA an...

U.S. Warmer and Drier than Normal in June

June 2011 brought temperature and precipitation extremes across the United States. An oppressive heat wave, accompanied by intensifying drought conditions, shattered temperature records in the South a...

Reclaiming our Spiritual Connection

Not long ago, as a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, I wrote my thesis on the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. Although I am concerned about the health and well-being of all people and the ea...

Incentives for Energy Efficiency

Ithink the biggest impact we can have on energy is people’s behavior. For example, if everyone bought a hybrid car, the Nation would eliminate a significant amount of its oil imports because our gas...

Terror, Violence & Religion: The International Conference at the Leiden Institute for Religious Studies

Ten years after the September 11th event and the beginning of the global war on terror, bombs are still blasting and innocent people are being killed under the banner of terrorism. Most of ...

U.S. Navy: Shore Energy Reform

The U.S. Navy, like the rest of the military, used to think about energy as a commodity. Now we think of it as a National Security requirement. It is a strategic resource and is fundamental to our mis...
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