The Soul of Psychic Energy: Health & Security Predictions

Leading thinkers in the natural sciences no longer subscribe to a classical, reductionist scientific paradigm, typified by Descartes and Newton: the search for ever smaller elements of nature, their c...

U.S. Navy Medicine: Fighting the War Against Malaria

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) sponsors substantial malaria research worldwide. Malaria is not a unique military infectious disease, it is a major global health issue and, according to the World...

Honey Bee Health & Food Security

The honey bee is, arguably, the most famous insect on the planet. It has been associated with human populations for thousands of years and is a model for cooperation, collaboration and interaction wit...

Effects on Human Health: Electromagnetic & Radiofrequency Fields

For more than 50 years, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has been studying and treating the effects of the environment on human health. In the last 20 years, AAEM physicians began...

Radiation Risk to Humans Differs Between GSM and CDMA Cell Phone Technology

Jan. 6, 2011, The Council of Europe’s recent resolution on the need to reduce exposures to electromagnetic fields focused on cell phones with “continuous pulse waves”, the kind emitted by GSM ph...

New Rules of War & Peace: The Ultimate Weapon May Be No Weapon At All

Imet Lt. Col Shannon Beebe in 2011, shortly after he was “relieved” of duty as the U.S. Army’s senior Africa analyst. According to Beebe, he had been “hidden away” in a desk job pending an u...

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...

British Columbia’s Threatened Sacred Headwaters

It is not often a photographer has the opportunity to explore lands which have rarely, if ever, been captured by the lens of a camera. Collaborating with National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and ...

Information of Interest, May 2012

1. Generational Differences in Young Adults (www.apa.org) – “Compared to Baby Boomers (born 1946 to 1961) at the same age, Gen X’ers (born 1962 to 1981) and Millenials (born after 1982) consider...

USMC’s Camp Lejeune Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Recovery

In 2011, North Carolina’s Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, the largest Marine Corps Base on the East Coast with approximately 40,000 Marines, achieved a significant milestone in the recovery...

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...

USMC’s Twentynine Palms: Mission-Critical Sustainable Practices

Military operations and environmental protection are often thought to be at odds, but such perceptions are not, in fact, reality. That said, two questions frequently come to mind: (1) What could susta...

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...

Naval Base Ventura County San Nicolas Island Seabird Restoration Project

San Nicolas Island (SNI), the most remote of California’s Channel Islands, has been touched and transformed by humans beginning with its occupancy by the Nicoleño Indians approxima...

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...

“To A Billion One:” A Global Affordable Housing Lesson

As a child I learned about the Hebrew expression, “Tikun Olam.” It means repairing the world, which typically means giving Tzedakah, or charity. It is a central tenet of what it means to ...

Kabul & the USACE: The Power of Streetlights

Solar-powered streetlights, installed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), have boosted commerce in a busy business district in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan. According to Kabul Mayor Muhammad Y...

Kamchatka: Russia’s Wild East

Kamchatka is like a time machine. When I arrived to the vast, unscathed wilderness six years ago, it felt as though I had traveled back 300 years. Wilderness still dominates the peninsula today as it ...

Information of Interest, Apr 2012

1. Am. Acad. of Env. Medicine Urges Moratorium on “Smart Meters” (www.aaemonline.org) – The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) issued a January 19, 2012, letter to the California ...

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...

HDR & Sustainable Design: The Implications of H.R. 1540 on DoD Projects

On January 2, 2012, President Obama signed into law the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), known as H.R. 1540. The final budget reflected lower spending levels than in recent years in res...

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...

Taking Ecosystem Restoration to the Next Level

Ecosystem restoration has become a dominant activity for many natural resource management agencies throughout the United States and the world. Although it is now one of the fastest growing fields, lar...

Alternative to Urbanization: Life after the City

Are people eternally destined to live in cities? Are jungles made of concrete, metal and glass the only environment in which they deserve to exist – even in the remote future? Today, these important...

TIBET, Culture at the Edge: Devotion, Development & Climate Change

Itook my first trip to Tibet in 1994 to collect interviews and portraits for my book Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion. When I returned in 2009, I could barely believe the amount of d...

Information of Interest, Mar 2012

1. U.N. Agencies Unveil Proposals to Safeguard Ocean (www.unesco.org) – The Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability sounds the alarm about the health of the ocean and explains how it influenc...

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 ...

Gamifying Education

The use of game technology in the service of educational ends can be understood as “gamification.” Gamification is “an informal umbrella term for the use of video game elements in non-gaming sys...
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