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Bridging the Gap Between Intention & Action
This will be a simple article. That’s because simplicity sells. As an owner of a brand engagement agency, which works with both public and private sector organizations to implement sustainability pr...
New Technology for a Greener Future: 12-Minute Cell Phone & Electric Car Charging
Sales of plug-in electric (PEV) and hybrid cars tripled in 2012 and are expected to double again in 2013. Still, they represent only a one digit percent of the 13 million vehicles sold in the United S...
New Sustainability Reports: Creating Equitable, Sustainable Communities
1. Creating Equitable, Healthy & Sustainable Communities (www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice) – Communities across the country are integrating smart growth, environmental justice and equitable dev...
The Future of Electricity: Embracing Transition
Life is full of transitions. Some are small like the transition kids make in the morning from being stone-cold asleep to biking off to school. Some are big like graduating from school and entering pro...
Project Healing Waters: Fly Fishing Help for Vet Minds, Bodies & Spirits
Astudy by RAND Corporation indicates that 400,000 to 600,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from psychological injuries. Another 320,000 returnees suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTS...
The Reputation Economy: Creating a Sustainable Business Strategy
In 1987 the Brundtland Commission Report defined sustainable development for the environment as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generation...
A Community of Collaboration: Whidbey Island & Sustainable Agriculture
Industrialization of agriculture has taken a large toll on small, family farms. In the last century, the number of farms fell nearly 65 percent, and the farm labor force dropped from 41 to 1.9 percent...
Business Thinking Ahead: Building the 21st Century Business Model
Business strategy and business sustainability are incongruent. Business strategy, as it is currently conceptualized, promotes profit maximizing through growth. Yet, global society is reaching its limi...
Squeezed Like Lemons: Hawaii PUC Mistreats Citizen-Solar Producers
In February 2012, my wife, Elizabeth, and I started an amazing educational journey on uses and abuses of energy on our planet. Our first-ever adventure with an electric car during a weekend trip to Oa...
A History of Haiti: The Politics of Poverty
Haiti’s independence from France on January 1, 1804, marked the beginning of the first modern state governed by people of African descent. It was the second nation in the Western Hemisphere to achie...
Climate Reform & Social Justice: A Plea for Parity in Communities of Color
With the devastation from Hurricane Sandy fresh in our minds, it is time to deliberatively address the menacing climate change concerns that are facing our planet and their disparate impacts on commun...
The Mission Continues: Assisting Veterans with Coping
As seasoned Veteran and Retirees, we have a moral obligation to aid those that follow. Just as we did yesterday while in uniform, today, we must remain watchful of the weary; we must lend the attentiv...
Restoring Global Fisheries: Three Simple Principles for Sensible Reform
It is no secret that oceans are ailing. Statistics abound to remind people of their precarious state: Catch is declining even as fishing efforts increase; once iconic stocks now face collapse, and gov...
We Mean Green: One University’s Sustainability Initiatives
The University of North Texas (UNT) continues its leadership in sustainability with its We Mean Green Fund (WMGF) – a $5 per student per semester fee, which funds environmental projects on campus. A...
The Himalayan Stove Project: Changing the World One Cookstove at a Time
The Himalayan Stove Project believes in conserving nature and in improving the health and lives of people. It is achieving that mission right now in the high Himalayas of Nepal, thus transforming the ...
Poverty in Morne-A-Bruler: Haiti’s Multi-Dimensional Problems
Until Jan. 12, 2010, few people gave Haiti much thought. However, after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake and global news network coverage of the devastating damage and socio-economic conditions in the aft...
Kivalina & Climate Change: Innovative Solutions from Israel
“We’ve got to figure out how we protect the environment, the Native culture and still come up with a sound solution that doesn’t create more problems down the road. This means collaboration betw...
Natural Disasters & Environmental Change
Extreme and frequent storms, hurricanes, rainfall, floods, heat waves, droughts, forest fires, avalanches, mudslides and landslides, plus melting glaciers, rising sea levels and ocean temperatures, co...
Collaboration in Space: Global Maritime Awareness
According to the National Space Centre Ltd., satellites monitor the whole planet, but owners and operators don’t currently share information. That will change with a new cooperation initiative, C-SI...
America’s Addiction to Energy
Can I see a show of hands for those who want to use less energy? Of course no one wants to use less energy. That would be like asking if anyone would like to breathe less. Energy, like air, makes qual...
New Sustainability Reports Forest & Wetland Carbon Storage
1. U.S. DOI Reports on Natural Carbon Storage of Forests & Wetlands (www.doi.gov) – Forests, grasslands, shrublands and other ecosystems in the Western United States sequester nearly 100 million...
Looking at Green Energy’s Big Picture
Green energy is a hot topic globally. In the United Kingdom (UK), the question over whether the government is doing the right thing with regards to green energy policy is an on-going issue. Procrastin...
Ecotechnical Fish Migration Solution IV
The ecotechnical Solution IV for fish migration upstream and downstream from Romania’s Isalnita Dam involves creating an engineering system on the right bank of the Isalnita Lake. A mobile metal bar...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Operating Principles II
The concepts embedded in the original Principles remain vital to the success of the Corps and its missions. However, as the Nation’s water resource challenges and priorities have evolved, USACE has ...
Solar as an Energy Partner Power Production’s Paradigm Shift
Much discussion and news about solar energy has occurred lately prompted largely by the Solyndra bankruptcy and the federal loan guarantees, which took taxpayer dollars down with the Company. In fact,...
Rebuilding Resilience on the Land Ecological Restoration & the Hydrological Cycle
Agently meandering creek brings cool water to a southeast Wisconsin landscape scorched by record-breaking temperatures combined with zero rainfall. The farmer, taking a break from heart-rending work t...
Nature & Adaptability: Solutions for an Uncertain World
Much needed and welcome growth is occurring in the business of looking to nature for ideas and inspiration on how people can make society function better. Initially, these adoptions seemed to come in ...
The New Frontier: Restoring Natural Capital & Sustainability
Humanity stands at the edge of a new frontier. Earth is at a critical threshold and global society’s ability to master the sustainability challenge within the next decade will determine whether the ...
A Point of Conscience: Protecting Tribal Peoples
Deep in one of the remotest parts of the Brazilian Amazon, in a clearing at the headwaters of the Envira River, an Indian man looks up at an aeroplane. He is surrounded by kapok trees and banana plant...
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