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 ...

Capturing the Value in Solar Renewable Energy Projects

With budget dollars harder to find for energy and facility upgrades, solar power projects are offering new ways to cover and reduce costs. While it is unlikely with current technology that solar power...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Center for the Advancement of Sustainability Innovations

Our future readiness rests on the actions we take today to use resources efficiently, protect our training areas, employ technology and improve quality of life. While the Army has already made great s...

Game Changers: Green Engineering & Technology, Part 1

Green engineering and technology are innovative, problem-solving concepts that provide for continuously evolving development and commercialization of products and processes, which “reduce the risk t...

Chromium-6 Is Widespread in US Tap Water

Laboratory tests commissioned by Environmental Working Group (EWG) have detected hexavalent chromium, the carcinogenic “Erin Brockovich chemical,” in tap water from 31 of 35 American cities. The h...

2009 TRI (Toxics Release Inventory) National Analysis

EPA released the 2009 TRI National Analysis on December 16, 2010. Read the Greenversations blog post “What’s in your neighborhood”. The TRI National Analysis is an annual report that displays EP...

America’s Grade of Shame

My comments on education in America are based on having taught at the primary, secondary and college level and on interactions with undergraduate and graduate students at reputedly elite universities ...

Air Force Resource Efficiency

Ihave been earning my way in resource conservation for the past 28 years with relative success. My employers and clients are saving more than $15,000,000 per year while lessening their negative impact...

Afghanistan’s Non-Confrontational Conservation

Afghanistan is more than war and turmoil; it has a long and colourful history, strong cultures and a stunning landscape. It has enormous biodiversity, as it sits at the crossroads of ...

Energy & Environment: A Multi-Dimensional Puzzle

The U.S. Navy must be a global force for good on the 70 percent of the world’s surface covered with water, for the 80 percent of the globe’s population that lives within 100 miles of the coast whi...

Salmon in the trees

Crouched on a rock near a churning waterfall, I’m entranced by thousands of salmon thronging in a pool. Fin to fin, tail to tail, they sway against the current as one giant mob. I forget that they a...
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