Management Team

MR. ALEX BEEHLER, Sustainability Editor & Advisor, was the Principal Deputy to the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment) under the Bush Administration. He supported the...

Manatees & Caribbean Conservation: The Threat of Low Genetic Diversity

Across the Caribbean, protected coastal waters have served as primary feeding and breeding grounds for the endangered Antillean manatee. Unfortunately, these same coastal waters are also a popular “...

USMC Gen. John F. Kelly: The Finest Men & Women in America

First, a few statistics to ponder. There are 25 million living American veterans. Since General George Washington commanded the Continental Army, 42 million Americans have served the colors. One milli...

Ecology of Mind: Consciousness & Healing Research

Pioneering research on connections between consciousness and healing has begun this summer with a study focused on Buddhist indigenous healers. The ground is well prepared as mind-body medicine has be...

Livebetter Magazine

No. 34, July/August 2014 Women & Community-Based Conservation Women & Community-Based Conservation By Jamie Bechtel, JD, PhD, Co-Founder and CEO, New Course  Features Although the US en...

Our Supporters

In our commitment to provide the truth without prejudice, we’ve found some great human beings who have agreed to become involved with us because they care deeply about the world, humanity, the e...

General Info

Although sustainability is absolutely crucial in terms of health, welfare and national security, it is, unfortunately, not a well understood concept. In addition, many people are unaware that this ...

About Us

Center for a Better Life™ is focused on bettering the human condition, within a real-world scenario, using a sustainable business model. We are for profit with a non-profit Center for a Better Life ...

Articulation to Action: the Air Force’s Energy Future

Adialogue has been ongoing about going green since the first Earth Day in the 1970s. We’ve made many strides in the direction of energy conservation and being more respectful of our planet. But 2013...

Solarbrush for Solar Panels: German Teen Solves Maintenance Issues

Solar power is a resource that is difficult to fight about. Everyone can imagine a war for oil, but no one can imagine a war for the sun’s rays. That may be one reason why we have yet to unlock even...

The Ethics of Deep Diversity in Multicultural Societies, Part II

The creative activity of men is to be conceived not as the production of objects for use or pleasure of instruction, additions to or improvements on the world of external nature, but as voices speakin...

Stopping e-Waste Dumping While Creating 42,000 U.S. Jobs

Wow often do Americans have the opportunity to choose a path that promotes sustainability and helps strengthen the economy? So often it seems like people are told they must choose either one ...

NY Statewide Energy Efficiency: Motivating Residents One Home at a Time

As New York State pursues its aggressive energy efficiency goals, which includes decreasing projected electricity use 15 percent by 2015, the task of motivating New York homeowners to implement sustai...

Socially Responsible Investors: Working to Minimize Fracking Impacts

At first glance, the Harmony Inn in Butler County, Pa., feels like any other mom and pop bed and breakfast located in any other rural farm town. A closer look at the flyer posted on the commu...

The Crash of the Industrial Age

What if it were too late to save the world? What if rising threats to natural support systems on which all life depend, posed by humanity’s industrial way of life, have already done so much damage t...

Building New City Solutions to Pressing US Challenges

“. . .focus has escalated into military conflicts while domestically it has deflated our sense of promise and freedom through terror scares. . .”Let me digress to discuss the two other major chall...

Letters to Pushkin: From Loss to Inspiration & Healing

Iwas blessed to have Pushkin in my life and in our home for just over nine years. Throughout the years, he continually proved himself a resilient but gentle soul. He was feisty. He was peaceful. He wa...

Queens University of Charlotte: A Living Wall to Educate, Invigorate and Inspire

North Carolina’s Queens University of Charlotte was looking for a way to add design elements that were visually compelling and educational to the construction of its new $18 million Rogers Science a...

Bioengineering Solutions for Restoring Lotic Ecosystems

Method I In order to ensure fish migration (upstream and downstream) over dams up to 30m height, a two-circular channel mechanism of variable geometry can be set. This mechanism is rectangular (Fig.1)...

Transformational Mentorship: Discovering What Makes Life Work

It is common to hear an older person say, “If only I knew then what I know now.” This understanding of advancing wisdom can help to induce a societal sense of unified accomplishment and belonging,...

Man-Animal Conflicts in India: Understanding Hidden Social Factors

Man-animal conflicts are increasing across India. Although news of such events was quite rare and obscure just 10 to 15 years ago, it is becoming alarmingly more visible in the media. Does this indica...

Do Governments Effect Security or Insecurity?

For years now, government actions in general, regardless of type, have faced many challenges. This is particularly evident within the last two years as changes in Arabic countries have resulted in new...

The Ethics of Deep Diversity in Multicultural Societies, Part I

Each age is different, but each has the centre of its happiness within itself. . . . No one lives in his own period only; he builds on what has gone before and lays a foundation for what comes after....

The Silent Abuse of War: Hearing & Helping Those Who Serve

Iwrite as the mother of an ex-Army son and a person concerned about our returning military service men and women both here, in Australia, and overseas. It has become apparent to many that the toll on ...

CH2M HILL & Singapore’s Canals: Reconnecting People to Water’s Life Flow

The word “canal” evokes many responses from the romance of the canals of Venice to the toxic legacy of the Love Canal. A canal can be a dramatic centerpiece to commerce and history, a forgotten st...

Admiral Sam Locklear on Indo-Asia-Pacific Challenges & Opportunities

Why does the Asia Pacific region matter to the American people and the global population at large? The answer is self-evident when one realizes the area “really can’t be called a ‘region’ beca...

The Challenge of Change & Reality of Environmental Threats

As a clinical neuropsychologist, who has studied the intricacies of how the human brain operates for the last 20 years, it still remains fascinating to observe the difficult process of change even whe...

Keeping America Beautiful: Junk King Green Hauling & Recycling

America’s trash is made up of things people commonly use and then throw away, such as paper, plastic, cardboard packaging, food, furniture, appliances and grass clippings. According to the U.S. Envi...
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