Canada and its First Nations Moving Toward Reconciliation & Forgiveness

On 11 June 2008, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivered in Parliament a Statement of Apology on behalf of the Government of Canada to survivors of Indian Residential Schools. In the apology,...

Face of Defense: Military Dog Survives Snakebite

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C., Dec. 22, 2011 – Dingo, a 5-year-old Marine Corps military working dog, has survived a bout with a poisonous snake. Dingo, a German shepherd, was struck b...

Christmas Reindeer Mystery as World’s Largest Herd Plummets

The world’s largest reindeer herd has plummeted in size, with local indigenous people blaming the spread of massive industrial projects in the area. The George River herd, which once numbered 8-900,...

Violence engulfs Kenyan tribe just miles from royal hideaway

A Kenyan tribe living near the area famous for its links to Prince William and Kate Middleton’s engagement has been engulfed by violence after wildlife charities arranged to buy their land. Kenya’...

NOAA activates GOES-15 satellite; deactivates GOES-11 after nearly 12 years in orbit

For 12 years, GOES-11, one of NOAA’s geostationary satellites, tracked weather and severe storms that impacted the U.S. West Coast, Hawaii and the Pacific region. Today, NOAA began the process to de...

Veolia Water NA: GrowingBlue™ for a Water-Conscious Future

There is such a thing as too much information. More specifically, for many topics the internet is flush with information and much data. One can easily become overwhelmed, and, more frequently, not be ...

Brain Skerry Ocean Soul

I am certain it was love at first sight, though I honestly cannot remember the first time I saw her. What I do know is that I fell in love with the sea as a child and from that early age my course was...

Information of Interest, Nov 2011

1. DOE Releases Inaugural Quadrennial Technology Review Report (www.energy.gov) – The Energy Department released its inaugural Quadrennial Technology Review report (DOE-QTR) – an assessment of the...

The U.S. Navy’s Sustainability Imperative

In the second decade of the 21st Century an emergent concern is rapidly assuming a central position in the Navy, national and global consciousness. It is “sustainability.” Defined in va...

Johnson Controls Fort Bliss: Ground-Zero for Net Zero

It’s zero hour for a massive military initiative that’s aimed at saving lives, saving resources and saving millions of taxpayer dollars. With the April 2011 announcement of the U.S. Army’s Net Z...

USACE & Education Investing in America’s Youth

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is one team made up of a headquarters office, division offices, district offices, centers, labs and active components – each working to provide better, safer...

USDA & Advanced Biofuels Strengthening Agriculture & Military Links

At first glance it would seem that a Navy Aviation Boatswain’s Mate doing his job inspecting JP-5 jet fuel on an aircraft carrier and a farmer producing her wheat crop in Montana would have little i...

New uncontacted pictures validate Brazil’s Yanomami territory 20 years on

Survival International has released new pictures of an uncontacted Yanomami village in Brazil, 20 years after one of its crucial campaigns created the biggest forested indigenous territory in the worl...

Agribusiness Contributions to Members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees

Nov. 16, 2011 – With the upcoming presidential election accelerating the focus on November 2012, one issue that will most likely be decided before either President Obama takes a second term or one o...

US Forest Service Teams With Society Of American Foresters on Research to Help Land Managers Integrate Energy, Products and Land Management Policy

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2011 – U.S. Forest Service scientists contributed to a far-reaching report that will help land managers make decisions about how forests are best managed to help offset carbon e...

Nation’s Mayors Asked to Stop Spread of Feral Cats

(Washington, D.C., November 9, 2011) American Bird Conservancy (ABC), the nation’s leading bird conservation organization, has called on the mayors of U.S. cities to stop the epidemic spread of fera...

Repairing the World Mobilizing Jews to Protect the Environment

What’s Jewish about caring for the environment? This is a core question that we, as leaders of Jewish organizations, ask ourselves all the time. The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COE...

Honouring Life Network Tribal Youth Suicide

Ido not know exactly who my First Nations and Métis relatives are. My family tree is one of many Canadian family trees that include several mothers and grandmothers simply referred to as “Cree woma...

Information of Interest, Oct 2011

1. Wireless Safety Summit in Washington, D.C., October 5 and 6, 2011 (www.centerforsaferwireless.org) – The Center for Safer Wireless, a VA-based EMF advocacy group, is hosting a Wireless Safety Sum...

A Passion for Change Humanitarian Engineering

Be the change you wish to see in the world,” said Mahatma Ghandi. Both the ethics of justice and the ethics of care compel engineers and architects to take these words to heart as they work to make ...

Interagency Exercise Hones Rescue Operations

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2011 – The largest federal interagency exercise for personnel rescue and recovery began Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., Oct. 9 with joint, coalition, interagency and intern...

Naval Research Technology Update

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) provides the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps with cutting-edge science and technology research that confronts tomorrow’s national security and energy challenges head-on...

BP’s Deepwater Horizon America’s Haunting Catastrophe

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico and became the world’s largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. Methane gas, under extr...

Information of Interest, Sep 2011

1. Toxic School Supplies Pose Threat to Children’s Health (www.chej.org) – The average child’s character-themed backpack is filled with supplies and materials made from the most toxic plastic fo...

Effective Climate Change Messaging

Although an international consensus of scientists agree that global climate change can no longer be denied, many Americans are still skeptical and believe climate change lacks sufficient scientific su...

CH2M HILL Climate Change & Innovative Urban Planning

In 2009 the National Association of Clean Water Agencies and Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies reported to Congress that climate change adaptation costs could range from $448 to $944 billion ...

Rear Admiral Phil Cullom: A Warrior’s Energy Ethos

Ihave always tried to look at things through the lens of a quarter of a century because when a person subscribes to the ‘art of the long view,’ he or she ends up making better strategic decisions....

Task Force Climate Change Climate Skepticism & Ways Forward

Climate skepticism is a good thing. Really. We should all question what we think we know and seek to refine our understanding of the truth. Skepticism is the very foundation of scientific inquiry, and...

Air Mobility Command’s Response Saves Lives

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2011 – In wars, natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies, the Air Mobility Command’s real-time global response capability saves lives and brings people home, Air Force ...

Office of the Secretary of Defense: Green Technology Update

Located in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) br...
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