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...

In-Wheel Electric Motors Reinventing Eco-Friendly Vehicles

I've devoted much of my career toward the electrification of the automobile. I’ve seen the introduction of dozens of advanced technologies whose grand promises would make you believe they could solv...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Gamifying Education

The use of game technology in the service of educational ends can be understood as “gamification.” Gamification is “an informal umbrella term for the use of video game elements in non-gaming sys...

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...

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...

Africa Partnership Station: Building Capacity & Enduring Friendships

Africa, with its one billion and counting population, its vast natural resources and its untapped human potential, has the power to assist the world economy, to become a model for equitable developmen...

City & County of Denver A Model for Sustainable Action

Building smart in the City and County of Denver includes several programs designed to help the municipality and broad community achieve cost reductions and high performance, and to conserve use of nat...

Climate Change Implications & Recommendations for Security

Climate change is likely to have the greatest impact on security through its indirect effects on conflict and vulnerability. Many developing countries are unable to provide basic services and improvem...

Environmental Change & Emerging Threats

According to Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO looks at environmental change very carefully because of its increasing impact on security. The Intern...

HDR Solid Waste Innovations

In 2010 the U.S. generated 250 million tons of trash, or municipal solid waste (MSW), and recycled and composted almost 85 million tons. On average, Americans recycled and composted 1.51 pounds of the...

Draper Laboratory Solving Military Energy Challenges

While previous Executive Orders and Federal legislation have been useful in moving Federal Agencies toward sustainability and, in many cases, have spelled out numerical targets to be achieved, the 201...

NASA’s Social Innovation Concept: Human Development & Space Exploration

NASA Johnson Space Center’s (JSC) social innovation concept encourages out-of-the-box problem solving within the NASA community to benefit both NASA’s core mission and humanity’s most pressing n...

Defense Logistics Agency: Warfighter Alternative Fuels & Renewable Energy

Energy is essential to our warfighter’s mission success. Without it, planes don’t fly, tanks don’t roll, satellites don’t launch and ships don’t sail. The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Ener...

Department of Defense: The Push for Natural Security

In the first semester of 2011, natural disasters had a devastating impact on human society. Preliminary EM-DAT figures showed the occurrence of 108 natural disasters, which killed more than 2...

United States Navy Sustaining Leadership in STEM Education

Since very young, I have been fascinated by U.S. Naval science and technology from submarines to nuclear propulsion to the world’s most advanced aircraft to radar and advanced communications. Like s...

Vice Admiral Adam Robinson: The Nation’s First Black Navy Surgeon General

The first black Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy, Vice Admiral Adam Robinson, continues a proud tradition and belief in the importance of education, which began with his grandfather, who was an 1898 G...

Atkins North America Right-Sizing Air Force Real Property

United States military civil engineers and facility managers are working hard to find ways to reduce their facilities’ carbon footprints, to optimize space and to improve energy efficiency while sti...

Office of Naval Research & Other Stakeholders: Advancing U.S. Education Initiatives

James Duderstadt and other stakeholders have challenged the U.S. Naval community to help America regain its footing on the global science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) landscape. Sec...

HDR Architecture Health Design Interventions

Consider these statistics: Annual revenues for U.S. home fitness equipment manufacturers reached about $3 billion last year while the health club industry enjoyed revenues of $20.3 billion. Now ponder...

National Guard Engineers Facilitating Cooperative Relationships

In recent years, the role of National Guard reserves has expanded from a predominantly U.S.-based presence to global service providers and partners for developing countries around the world. For some ...

Disappearing Cultures Paraguay’s Indigenous Tribes

When the original colonists settled in the Americas, they came by ship and resided in the areas closest to the sea. As history progressed, the local indigenous populations were either eliminated or as...

Navy “Stability Ops:” Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief

On 26 December 2004, an earthquake off Southeast Asia produced a tsunami, which resulted in the confirmed deaths of more than 130,000 people in Indonesia. The massive loss of life and injury, coupled ...
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