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...

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...

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 ...

Leading America’s Next Great Transformation

The current economic storm has most organizations “hunkering down” for safety and security until weather patterns become more favorable. With few exceptions, companies seemingly serious about sust...

National Security and Climate Change

In April 2007, CNA completed a national security implications assessment of global climate change in order to “better inform U.S. policymakers and the public” about effects and po...

Sustainability Roadmaps for Hospitals

Today’s health care leaders are approaching sustainability with many different priorities, opinions, and perspectives. Every hospital has a different mix of drivers and motivators for taking on sust...

Navy-Marine Corps Sustainability Program Earns Prestigious Award

PEARL HARBOR (NNS) — Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Pacific and the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) received the 2010 Outstanding Sustainable Planning, Design or Development Initiative Award...

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study is a major international initiative to draw attention to the global economic benefits of biodiversity, to highlight the growing costs of biodi...

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30 Days Through Afghanistan

30 Days Through Afghanistan The web-based project kicks off Feb. 8 and aims to bring the people, the mission and the experiences of ISAF’s 44 participating nations to a worldwide audience throug...

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Reflections from Afghanistan

Reflections #1, 19 Jan 2010 Family and Friends, Yesterday I traveled to visit one of the many possible construction sites around the country – this one to improve traffic flow for Coalition trucks. ...
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