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Reversing our Environmental Footprint

Reflecting upon my life’s journey, I’ve come to understand the full impact that nature and its incredible beauty have had on my personal values. It’s my belief that “Nature”...

Environmental Policy in Paraguay

Over the past 60 years widespread and uncontrolled deforestation practices have plagued Paraguay’s Region Oriental, the eastern region of this South American country. In 1945, 8.8 million hectares (...

A Future Amazonia

The Amazonian forest is being cut to sell timber and to produce soybeans and meat because it’s economically sensible within the current global political-economic environment. Ironically, the forest�...

A New Maritime Strategy to Prevent Conflict

The dawn of the 21st century brought with it new challenges and unprecedented opportunities for international safety and security. Technological advancement, communication capability and booming globa...

Truth and Life – Striving for a 360° View

Fools think their own way is right, but the wise listen to others. – Proverbs 12:15 [BoxQuote color=aqua size=big position=full

Recycled Energy: Good for the Planet & Good for the Bottom Line

For 75 years West Virginia Alloys (WVA) has been melting quartz rock into silicon, a metal that’s used to make products like computer chips, semiconductors and steel alloys. Furnaces involved in thi...

A Healthy Respect for Nature

When I first came to Congress in 1976 as a Representative of West Virginia’s Third Congressional District, I was asked to serve on what was then known as the House Committee on Interior and Insular ...

Architecture for Humanity

Giving a damn” is an important philosophy for designing in a world with environmental and social turmoil. • “Design like You Give a Damn,” a book edited by Architecture for Humanity (...

The U.S. Marine Corps: Committed to Conservation

Astory shared among U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) conservation managers is that of being asked at a social event “What do you do for a living?” • After answering that we manage military installations...

The Bushmeat Crisis Task Force

Bush animals like the beloved gorilla and the African elephant are being commercially and illegally hunted at an alarming rate. • In fact, the International Union for the Conservation of Na...

Global Warming, Pollution and Bees What’s the Buzz?

When birds, bees, bats and, to a lesser degree, moths and butterflies disappear, so, too, will flowers, trees, vegetables, fruits and forage for livestock. Pollinators are critical for preserving heal...

Uncontacted Tribes By Choice or By Chance?

Indigenous peoples in a remote Amazon rainforest area near the Peruvian-Brazilian border were photographed for the first time in May 2008 by Gleison Miranda, who was in a small plane flying overhead a...

Mercury Exposure: A Silent U.S. Health Crisis

Mercury toxicity, unlike many food-borne illnesses such as salmonella poisoning, doesn’t receive much attention because its symptoms are much less obvious. However, mercury is an insidious silent ki...

Biodiversity and Life: Understanding the Connection

Biodiversity” makes headline news regularly because, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), “there is a growing recognition that diversity – biological as we...

Darlene Ketten, PhD, Marine Mammal Research Pioneer, Shatters Sonar Misconceptions

As the world’s foremost expert on marine mammal ears, Darlene R. Ketten, Ph.D. and Senior Scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (www.whoi.edu...

Task Force Energy Forum 2009

RADM Collum and Energy Security Panel (WMA 29.9MB) (MP3 25.97MB) SECNAV Mabus (WMA 12.1MB) (MP3 36.1MB) CNO ADM Roughead (WMA 9.79MB) (MP3 29MB) CMC GEN Conway (WMA 14.1MB) (MP3 42.1MB) MG Payne and P...

Heeding History’s Message in Southwest Alaska

Barely a decade after Lewis and Clark began their historic exploration of what is now the Western United States, the first expedition into Southwest Alaska embarked from Kodiak Island. Leading the par...

The Need to Extend Protection to the Imperiled Polar Bear

Polar bears occupy a special place in people’s hearts around the world. These exceptional animals are icons of the wilderness as well as symbols of majestic places where Earth’s oldest life cycles...

Leading in a Time of Change

If desks could talk, I know one that would have great stories to share. It’s a wonderful wooden desk, solid and big, with seven drawers. In 1905 a man named Gifford Pinchot sat at this desk to discu...

The True Price of Consumerism

One day not long ago, I was working in my home office on a rural West Virginia mountain when I had an epiphany or “light bulb moment,” thanks to revising Leah Cunningham’s Baia Mare feature (p. ...

Stripping Stain with Corn Cobs and Black Walnut Shells

In the past decade a revolutionary method has surfaced to strip old stain from any exterior wooden structure. This sustainable practice, called “media blasting,” has evolved to include various opt...

Five Products you Should Check Out for Issue 4, 2008

1. Elmwood Reclaimed Timber Elmwood Reclaimed Timber Inc. manufactures and markets the highest-quality reclaimed wood products, which adhere to standards embracing the company’s deep respect for the...

A Living Systems Approach to Design

Sustainability is not a deliverable. Sustainability is not a thing. Sustainability is not simply about efficient technologies and techniques. It is about life — a process by which living things such...

Changing Lives for the Better

Worldwide, an estimated 1.6 million people die each year from health problems brought on by toxic air in their homes as they cook family meals over primitive stoves and open pit fires. Millions more s...

Coastal Erosion and the Threat to Kivalina, Alaska

In 1953 the Bureau of Indian Affairs permanently settled an otherwise nomadic, federally recognized tribe of Inupiat Native Alaskans onto an 8-mile-long barrier reef between the Chukchi Sea and the Ki...

Mining and the Destruction of Baia Mare

More than 100,000 cubic meters of heavily poisoned water, rich in cyanide and other toxic heavy metals, such as copper and zinc, spilled through a tailings dam breach Jan. 31, 2000, in Baia Mare, capi...

Angels of Mercy: The United States Navy

Thirty days after the Kashmir Earthquake hit the isolated, mountainous region of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, an injured man hobbled into a U.S. disaster relief hospital near Muzaffarabad, approxima...

Compounding Catastrophe: The Impact of Humans on Natural Disasters

The dual forces of global warming and poor human management choices regarding land and water resources combine to cause ‘natural’ disasters, and poor planning and preparation exacerbate the level ...

Personal Reflections: Katrina, The Corps, and Change

Lieutenant General Carl A. Strock, retired, former U.S. Army Chief of Engineers and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Commander “As a public agency the Corps of Engineers must do the rig...