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...

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...

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...

Smart Power Move: Solar as a Crucial US Energy Component

Living and acting in an environmentally conscious way and finding a balance between economics, environment and society is, historically, not a new concept. However, it is a relatively new concept for ...

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...

Education & Innovation Promoting Public/Private Water Solutions

The 2010 Federal Buildings Personnel Training Act (FBPTA) is a far-reaching measure that seeks to assure Federal buildings and property are managed with a priority on energy and water-efficient practi...

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...

Mage Solar Understanding Solar Basics

It doesn’t take a solar expert to realize that the magnificent concept of clean, reliable and easy to deploy solar energy is unstoppably making its way into the collective conscience of society. Sol...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

The “Achilles’ Heel” of Islam: Terrorism, Violence & Interpretation of Qur’an

Religion is a powerful resource that has the ability to control massive numbers of people instantaneously. It can make believers strive to be the best possible person, or it can make humans do terribl...

Admiral Sam Locklear on National Security & Global Change

The world we’re in today is undergoing as rapid a change as any in the history of mankind. Everything necessary to support the world’s population is changing at incredible rates causing increased ...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Sustainable Development in Afghanistan

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is constructing billions of dollars of infrastructure throughout Afghanistan. Incorporating green and sustainable solutions within a program of this size would...

Winning Hearts & Minds: A Conversation with Admiral Gary Roughead

Few people understand “smart” power as well as Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Gary Roughead. To this ingenious, adept leader of the world’s largest and most powerful navy, it’s not ju...

DUSD Dorothy Robyn on DoD’s Evolving Energy Revolution

Dorothy Robyn, Ph.D. and Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (DUSD) Installations & Environment (I&E), is an accomplished economist, a creative thought leader and a results-oriented sustainabili...

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...
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