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...

Resources for the Future: Landscapes as DoD Missionscapes

Several decades ago, environmental scholar and author Barry Commoner remarked on the “interconnectedness of everything.” Yet governing institutions and resource managers, decades after Commoner’...

Resources for the Future: Securing Water for a Secure Future

Perusing headlines across the United States, the poetic refrain of Samuel Coleridge comes to mind: “Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” The refrain referenced oceans, but it seems inc...

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...

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...

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 ...

Office of the Secretary of Defense Designing and Procuring Greener Weapon Systems

Chemicals are essential components in Department of Defense (DoD) weapon systems, but DoD faces long-term risk from its use of hazardous and toxic chemicals and materials. Employment of these chemical...

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 ...

21st Century Cities Why Greening Matters

We could barely see the grass – a small island of green amid a sea of concrete rooftop at the Interior Department’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. But, for the Nation’s premier ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Katrina and the IPET: Understanding the Truth Behind the Tragedy

Hurricane Katrina will be remembered as an unparalleled national disaster not only because, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

Lessons from America’s First Land Managers

To the Indian people of the Quinault Nation in Washington State, the cedar tree is the “tree of life” because it is fundamental to every aspect of their existence. From its wood the Quinault peopl...

US Air Force Pushes the Envelope for Energy Solutions

The economic impact of energy is having a tremendous effect upon America at home and on the job. To combat this effect, consumers and businesses alike are undergoing major transformations to better ma...

An Assault on Bristol Bay

Alaska has been home to its fair share of environmental assaults and controversies as a direct result of wars between materialists and conservationists. So in 2008 it’s probably not a big surprise t...

Saving Rural America: The Fight Against the NIET Corridors: Part Two

As she looked out lovingly over their 60–acre farm of rolling hills and green pastureland, Luciana Duvall explained how she felt when she arrived in Virginia from Argentina: “When I walked up to t...
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