CH2M Hill Embracing Environmental Stewardship

If a person walked into an office, would he/she know right away if the company is “sustainable,” or “walking the talk,” or practicing any other green buzzword of the moment? It’s easy to tel...

Green Game Changers: Air Force Alternative Energy Research

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Air Base Sciences Energy Group (AFRL/RXQ) is part of a larger effort to bring green energies into deployed settings like Afghanistan and Iraq using their existing...

The Necessity of Global Climate Monitoring

Evidence is mounting that Earth’s climate is now experiencing major perturbations from historical norms. Left unchecked, consequences of climate change can affect humans at both individual and inter...

DUSD Dorothy Robyn on DoD’s Evolving Energy Revolution

Dorothy Robyn, Ph.D. and Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (DUSD) Installations & Environment (I&E), is an accomplished economist, a creative thought leader and a results-oriented sustainabili...

Military, Afghan Leaders Mark Orphanage Opening

SHARAN, Afghanistan, April 26, 2011 – “Safe haven” took on new meaning yesterday as hundreds of Afghans gathered to open an orphanage here in Paktika province’s capital. The U.S. military cont...

Secretary Chu Announces Over $110 Million in SunShot Projects to Advance Solar Photovoltaic Manufacturing

WASHINGTON, DC – As part of the SunShot Initiative, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the selection of up to $112.5 million over five years for funding to support the de...

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Local Projects to Help Kids Get Outdoors

Funding will support partnership programs in 18 states and Puerto Rico WASHINGTON, April 4, 2011 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced $1 million in cost-share funding for children’s...

Japanese Minister Thanks U.S. Service Members

WASHINGTON, April 4, 2011 – Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa today boarded the USS Ronald Reagan to thank U.S. service members for their help since a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and the tsuna...

Rwandan ‘Anti-thatch’ Campaign Leaves Thousands of ‘Pygmies’ Homeless

NOT AN APRIL FOOL’S DAY JOKE A Rwandan government programme to destroy all thatched roofs in the country is leaving thousands of Batwa ‘Pygmies’ homeless. Hundreds of Batwa families have seen th...

President Obama to Outline Plan for America’s Energy Security

Rising prices at the pump affect everybody – workers and farmers; truck drivers and restaurant owners. Businesses see it impact their bottom line. Families feel the pinch when they fill up their tan...

DOE Announces New Funding to Support the Next Generation of American Scientists and Engineers

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the launch of two new fellowship programs designed to attract the country’s best and brightest scientific minds to w...

New Software Puts Forest Ecology in Public Hands

i-Tree v.4 ID’s the environmental and economic value of urban trees WASHINGTON, March 10, 2011 – The U.S. Forest Service and its partners released this morning the newest version of their free i-T...

Amazon Indians Protest in London as Judge Blocks Brazil Dam

‘These projects will force my people from their land and end our way of life.’ Ruth Buendia Mestoquiari, Ashaninka leader. Three Amazon Indians protested in London today against dams which threate...

Fallen Marine’s Family Adopts His Best Friend

LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas, Feb. 4, 2011 – “Whatever is mine is his,” Marine Corps Pfc. Colton W. Rusk wrote about Eli, his military working dog, in the final days of their deployment in Afg...

New Discoveries Improve Climate Models

Underwater Ridges Impact Ocean’s Flow of Warm Water New discoveries on how underwater ridges impact the ocean’s circulation system will help improve climate projections. An underwater ridge can tr...

More Frequent Drought Likely in Eastern Africa

The increased frequency of drought observed in eastern Africa over the last 20 years is likely to continue as long as global temperatures continue to rise, according to new research published in Clima...

An Endangered Species Success Story

WASHINGTON — Highlighting a 25-year conservation effort involving a number of federal agencies, the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife today announced the Maguire daisy will be re...

Borneo Indigenous Leaders Arrested

Police in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, have arrested two indigenous leaders for possession of ‘seditious materials’. The offices of the Sarawak Dayak Iban Association (SADIA) were rai...

U.S. Warmer and Drier than Normal in June

According to NOAA scientists, 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year of the global surface temperature record, beginning in 1880. This was the 34th consecutive year with global temperatures above the...

Jan/Feb 2011 Federal Sustainability Update

1Air Force Reflects on Energy Achievements Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. – Responsible for installation support functions at 166 bases worldwide, Civil Engineer Maj. Gen. Timothy A. Byers deve...

The Payoff from Basic Research

I’ve spent 37 years in the Navy and another 20 at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) thus far. In the Navy, most of my work was in Anti-submarine Warfare (ASW) during which I learned that l...

Family Farms & Biofuel Feedstock Supply

For those not already in the fight to end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and to reduce our fossil fuel consumption, it may have taken the Gulf Oil Spill or the price of oil hovering at $90 a barrel an...

Task Force Climate Change: A U.S. Navy Commitment

Service in the United States Navy is guided by three core principles: Honor, Courage and Commitment. For me, commitment is multi-layered with varying priorities and applications. In my 25+ ye...

Robert Glenn Ketchum In Defense of the Natural World

Robert Glenn Ketchum is a world-renowned conservation photographer, a United Nations’ Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award winner, one of Audubon’s 100 people who “shaped the environmenta...

Information of Interest, Jan/Feb 2011

1. U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) www.eia.gov – According to the EIA’s May 2010 Report, “International Energy Outlook 2010 with Projections to 2035,” energy-related carbon dioxid...

Sustainability as a Creative Process

Over the past several years green initiatives have become increasingly important in civilian and Department of Defense (DoD) construction projects. For project managers, finding sustainable solutions ...

The Strategic Implications of Sea Level Rise

The world’s oceans are rising and becoming one of today’s foremost national security challenges with strategic implications for the future. This acknowledgement is especially vital for U.S. milita...

Global Environmental Regulations Implications for North American Business

As everyone knows, a variety of substances exist that are harmful both to the environment and to its inhabitants. However, what may come as a surprise is the varying degree to which product manufactur...

The Healing Process of Design

Not long ago, hospitals were almost unanimously thought of as cold institutions filled with hard, unyielding surfaces chosen more for durability and ease of maintenance than for warmth and comfort. Th...

CH2M HILL: Art of Sustainable Engineering

Sustainability is a complicated tongue-twister:  six syllables long with myriad definitions. The term is frequently criticized just for that – being too lengthy, too complicated, too much trouble ...
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