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...

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...

Information of Interest, Nov/Dec 2010

1. Air Force to Host Dec. 8th Renewable Energy Industry Day U.S. AIR FORCE – Renewable energy companies, innovators and entrepreneurs will get the chance to learn about potential energy project oppo...

Southeastern U.S. Right Whale Education and Conservation

The North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) is one of the most endangered marine mammals in the United States, with as few as 345 whales remaining. Although whaling has ceased, human activiti...

Unexploded Ordnance: FUDS 3R Education

Throughout our nation’s history, many thousands of military troops have trained for peace and war, often with live munitions. Today, many of those training properties are no longer owned or controll...

Revisiting the Nuclear Option

The United States has no national energy policy, let alone a sustainable one. The absence of a coherent national energy policy affects each American every day, from subtle but serious health effects a...

The Challenge of Rebuilding Haiti

As a builder and civil engineer, I have volunteered in Haiti since 2005 primarily with Partners in Health (PIH). In the days following the January 12, 2010 earthquake that destroyed m...

Real-World Costs of Failing Sustainability

Global society has been talking about sustainability since 1987, but recent analyses show biodiversity extinction continues unabated, global climate change is accelerating and most of the United Natio...

Solutions for Water-Use Efficiency

The notion that mankind lives on the “water planet” is a misnomer. Water covers 71 percent of the Earth’s surface but is only 0.023 percent of the total mass – a 1:4,400 ratio of water to terr...

Engineers and Scientists Evaluate U.S. Education

Livebetter conducted an email survey asking 300 engineers, scientists and educators to grade U.S. primary, secondary and post-secondary schools in science, technology, engine...

The Office of Naval Research’s STEM Imperative

The loss of science and technology expertise is not just a Navy issue; it’s a national issue. It’s not that the numbers are going down; the United States is still continuing to raise young scienti...

Semper Fi Society of St. Louis Speech

Nine years ago two of the four commercial aircraft took off from Boston, Newark, and Washington. Took off fully loaded with men, women and children—all innocent, and all soon to die. These aircraft ...

Thoughts on Poverty

The United States of America is, undoubtedly, one of the wealthiest industrialized nations in the world. Yet, despite its affluence, millions of Americans live in poverty. At the beginning of the 21st...

Patricio Robles Gil The Passion and Essence of Nature

For millions of years we evolved within wilderness. It is interesting, now, how distant is that wild world and with what disregard it is treated by us city dwellers. In some ways this is understandabl...

Federal Sustainability’s Impact

Amidst the high-profile, highly charged Federal political scene dealing with topics such as health care and terrorism is a very successful, relatively quiet success story – Federal sustainability. A...

Bolivia’s Melting Glaciers

The world’s highest ski slope with a lift,” as Chacaltaya is identified in most travel guides to Bolivia, ceased to exist a few years ago. Even though the lift has also gone out of operation, unti...

A New Vision for Humanity

UUnprecedented steps have been taken to stop the global financial meltdown and to enable the world to recover from the economic crisis that emerged in 2008. But the world also faces a climate crisis w...

Abound Solar Making Solar Accessible

AColorado State University mechanical engineering professor was conducting research for Anheuser-Busch in the late 1980s when an epiphany hit: Could he borrow the efficiencies of making aluminum cans ...

Information of Interest, Sep/Oct 2010

1. Fish-Killing Toxin Holds Promising Cancer Applications National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – A powerful fish-killing toxin could have cancer-killing properties, according to co...

Oat Hulls and Waste Byproducts Powering with Bio

Biogas, biomass, biofuel, biodiesel . . . with success stories like this one, it’s easy to understand the hype about “bio.” The root word “bio” means “life”; and, thanks to today’s “...

Increasing Efficiencies in Technology Update on Solar Energy Research

Most people in the field think we need new materials or better ways of putting those materials together to get more efficient electron transport,” said Ellen Fisher, chair of the Department of Chemi...

Creating a Path to Solar Adoption CH2M Hill and Solar Mapping

Photovoltaics (PV) involves the application of solar cells for energy by converting sunlight, including sun ultra-violet radiation, directly into electricity. Its production has been doubling every tw...

Fort Bragg: Jumping into Sustainability

Many people are unaware that the traditionally conservative Southeast boasts a city of almost 300,000 that is fully committed to sustainability and whose strategic plan’s No. 1 goal is to become a S...

An Open Letter to the Obamas

We write to you as fellow parents concerned about the Earth that will be inherited by our children, grandchildren and those yet to be born. Barack has spoken of “a planet in peril” and noted that ...
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