CH2M HILL A Holistic Approach to Building Performance

Not long ago designing and constructing a “sustainable building” meant complying with a lengthy checklist of “do’s” and “don’ts” without a holistic approach to achieving true sustainab...

Syngas Chemical Looping Ohio State’s LS Fan & Carbon Capture

According to projections by the International Energy Agency (IEA), for at least the next 18 years – until 2030 – approximately 80 percent of the world’s energy consumption will ...

URS, sROI & RISQUE Analysis Transformational Outcomes

Economics is known as the “dismal science.” Its study and application has never known a widespread understanding for most people beyond simple “supply and demand.” In an era of heightened fisc...

The Evolution of an Environmentalist

It was the year 2000 on an early spring day at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, the largest amphibious training base on America’s East Coast. Tramping through the swamp and Carolina p...

Overcoming Pride to Prevent Suicide

2/7/2012 – VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFNS) – As my office has just completed a resiliency stand-down day, I am struck by the increasing numbers of suicides in the Air Force every year. Th...

USDA Tribal Scholars Program

About the 1994 Tribal Scholars Program The Office of USDA/1994 Programs was established to develop policy guidelines and procedures; coordinate and oversee further participation in the Department’s ...

‘Beyond the Horizons’ Clinic Fosters Health, Goodwill

POCOLA, Guatemala, June 28, 2012 – Thousands of local residents in this remote mountain village are getting what for many is one of their first experiences seeing a doctor, nurse or dentist during a...

Electromagnetic and Radiofrequency Fields: Effects on Human Health:

June 2012, 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 physi...

GEMI’s Solutions-Based Sustainability Tools

In 1990 a group of corporate environmental leaders from The Business Roundtable recognized the need for corporate environmental leadership around the world. They had a vision that a wide array of busi...

DoD & Amphibian Conservation: Unlikely Partner Protects Biodiversity

Department of Defense (DoD) lands comprise approximately 29 million acres throughout the United States. Providing the required safety and security buffers for testing and training operations has resul...

Cenotes: Yucatan’s Fragile Wonders

When I first heard the word “cenote” I had no idea what it was. Although I had been to Mexico many times, I never ventured into the Yucatan backcountry. So, when I received an invitation to take p...

Information of Interest, June 2012

1.DoD Facilities Drive Secure Power Technology (www.defense.gov) – The Nation’s top energy user, the Department of Defense (DoD), is pushing commercialization of technology needed to lower costs a...

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...

Southeast Florida’s Regional Climate Change Compact

Southeast Florida is a region planning for the large scale, looming conditions of climate change, sea level rise and extreme weather event vulnerability. Hundreds of concerned parties are engaged in 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...

HDR’s Streamlined Site Selection Everglades Ecosystem Restoration

The Lake Okeechobee Watershed Project, which encompasses more than 2,300 square miles in south Florida, is a major component of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP). Because of the wat...

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...

Plant-Based Eating The Path to a Healthy, Sustainable Diet

Eat more plants. That’s the simple advice coming from everyone’s lips, from best-selling authors like Michael Pollan to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the latest version of...

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...
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