Evolution of SROI on DoD Healthcare Projects

President Obama’s October 5, 2009, Executive Order 13514 entitled, “Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance” puts the onus on government entities seeking project fun...

A New Perspective on Persecution

According to two 2011 studies by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, 2.18 billion Christians and 1.6 billion Muslims exist around the globe,...

WINTERS: 1970-1980; Robert Glenn Ketchum’s First Published Portfolio

With his first published portfolio, WINTERS: 1970-1980, Robert Glenn Ketchum challenged the established status quo of landscape photography. He achieved this by rejecting the iconic “view” in favo...

Ocean Observing Systems Stimulating Interest in STEM

Ocean observing systems and ocean observatories are being developed and deployed in the U.S. and around the world to make sustained and continuous oceanographic measurements and to deliver that inform...

Restoring Aquatic Ecosystems Bioengineering & Ecotechnology

Natural rivers and their floodplains are among the most complex and diverse ecosystems in the world. Rivers have been used for hundreds of years for food, water, irrigation, electricity generation, tr...

U.S. Air Force Managing Wetlands at Hurlburt Field

Scientific research estimates that more than one-half of U.S. wetlands have been drained, dredged, flooded or filled since the beginning of colonial America with 45 percent of this loss due to urban d...

USACE’s Steve Stockton: The Urgent Need to Transform US Water Resources Infrastructure

Navigation channels that support international trade and produce one-third of U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP), almost 14 million jobs, flood-risk reduction that prevents $22.3 billion in average ann...

Reordering Life: Contemplate Contentment

Most of us were unconditionally loved and accepted even before we were conceived. We grew and evolved in a protected, ordered and predictable environment where we continued to be loved and accepted fo...

Kids Who Survived the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s

Like everyone else, I receive a mountain of mostly unwanted emails every day. However, once in a while I get something that makes me smile, lifts my spirits and reminds me that, even amidst all the cr...

Vertical Harvest of Jackson Hole A Replicable Program for Food Security

Most experts agree that traditional farming will not be able to keep pace with the expanding human population. According to the United Nations, the world’s population is predicted to increase to 9.1...

The Evolution of an Environmentalist

It was the year 2000 on an early spring day at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, the largest amphibious training base on America’s East Coast. Tramping through the swamp and Carolina p...

The Soul of Psychic Energy: Health & Security Predictions

Leading thinkers in the natural sciences no longer subscribe to a classical, reductionist scientific paradigm, typified by Descartes and Newton: the search for ever smaller elements of nature, their c...

Southeast Florida’s Regional Climate Change Compact

Southeast Florida is a region planning for the large scale, looming conditions of climate change, sea level rise and extreme weather event vulnerability. Hundreds of concerned parties are engaged in c...

Honey Bee Health & Food Security

The honey bee is, arguably, the most famous insect on the planet. It has been associated with human populations for thousands of years and is a model for cooperation, collaboration and interaction wit...

Plant-Based Eating The Path to a Healthy, Sustainable Diet

Eat more plants. That’s the simple advice coming from everyone’s lips, from best-selling authors like Michael Pollan to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the latest version of...

New Rules of War & Peace: The Ultimate Weapon May Be No Weapon At All

Imet Lt. Col Shannon Beebe in 2011, shortly after he was “relieved” of duty as the U.S. Army’s senior Africa analyst. According to Beebe, he had been “hidden away” in a desk job pending an u...

One Man’s Personal Quest Privately Generated Renewable Energy

If you’re a Hawaii resident, get ready to be shocked, perhaps even “electrified,” and not in a good way. If you live elsewhere in the United States, consider yourself lucky. Yea...

Student Climate & Conservation Congress Next Generation Environmental Leaders

Throughout the world humans are concerned about environmental threats, but experts say few people have an understanding of how these threats could actually impact their lives.

NCDMM Baseline Energy Consumption

If a person wanted to buy a car, making a decision based on fuel efficiency is straightforward thanks to a well-accepted and uniform method of determining energy consumed under standard operating cond...

US Air Force’s Hurlburt Field Black Bear Management Challenges

Department of Defense (DoD) lands, which account for approximately 30 million acres of pristine ecological habitat and rare species, provide a realistic setting for training, testing and mission readi...

Naval Base Ventura County San Nicolas Island Seabird Restoration Project

San Nicolas Island (SNI), the most remote of California’s Channel Islands, has been touched and transformed by humans beginning with its occupancy by the Nicoleño Indians approxima...

The Florida Everglades: Rescuing an Endangered Ecosystem

Fifty percent of one of the world’s irreplaceable gems has disappeared and the other 50 percent is dying, both the result of human development. The Everglades, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Inter...

US Coast Guard District 17: Arctic Shield & Cultural Responsiveness

Although the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has served the Nation in ports, at sea and around the world for more than 200 years, USCG District 17 is unique because it is responsible for the entire state of A...

Kamchatka: Russia’s Wild East

Kamchatka is like a time machine. When I arrived to the vast, unscathed wilderness six years ago, it felt as though I had traveled back 300 years. Wilderness still dominates the peninsula today as it ...

Green Schools: A 21st Century Imperative

In a recent paper prepared for the upcoming Rio +20 Earth Summit, to be held in Rio de Janeiro June 20...

The Past as Guide to the Future: US Geological Records of Sea-Level Change

Sea-level rise is one of the more certain impacts of future climate change; although, uncertainty surrounds its likely global and regional magnitude. Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions is an unlik...

USACE’s International Services: “Solutioneers” with a Lighter Touch

Most people know the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) as a 37,000 person-strong organization that executes large military construction programs or builds and maintains massive civil works projects...

NCDMM and GKN Aerospace Proving the Viability of Sustainable Machining Cells

Although many civilians may not understand what sustainable machining cells are, the concept is at the core of new efforts within the Department of Defense (DoD) to manufacture sustainable products, w...

CH2M HILL Better Environmental Remediation Outcomes

Tug on anything at all and you’ll find it connected to everything else in the universe,” said conservationist John Muir. Nowhere is this more accurate than in remediation – the science of cleani...

Arctic Report Card: 2011 Update

The 2011 Arctic Report Card shows record-setting changes occurring throughout the Arctic environmental system. Given the projection of continued global warming, it is very likely that major Arctic cha...
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