Serving as Witness to Environmental Change

The world is seeing gargantuan change the likes of which people haven’t experienced since the dawn of agriculture 8,000 years ago. Changing temperatures, rapid loss of ice and snow in arctic and alp...

Information of Interest, July/August 2011

1. DARPA Seeks to Employ Biology in Manufacturing (www.defensenews.gov) – The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for companies that can harness biology to speed up and lowe...

Next Generation Green Road Stabilization

Next generation road and highway engineering and construction product technologies are breaking with convention and advancing sustainability. One emergent alternative is a greener way to stabilize agg...

Frontier Fertilizer Superfund Site Groundwater Clean-up

Aneed for swift action that satisfies immediate budget constraints often creates decision-making tension between present and future priorities. However, at the contaminated Frontier Fertilizer Superfu...

Renewable Energy Goals & Pumped Storage Hydropower

Pumped storage hydroelectric projects have been providing valuable storage capacity, transmission grid ancillary benefits and renewable energy in the United States and Europe since the 1920s. Today, t...

Air Force Focuses on Sustainable Installations

As our Nation’s senior military leaders note, our country is in a new paradigm. We can no longer operate as if budgets always rise and resources always replenish. We must make a com...

CH2M HILL What Makes a Roadway Green?

A  “green” roadway is not defined by its color but by its ability to fit into a community and to enable user-friendly connectivity for all potential travel modes. It highlights the strengths of i...

EPA Partnering with State Capitals on Green Design and Economic Revitalization

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that through its Greening America’s Capitals (GAC) project, it will help the capital cities of Alabama, Arizona, Mississ...

President Obama Announces Historic 54.5 mpg Fuel Efficiency Standard

Consumers will save $1.7 trillion at the pump, $8K per vehicle by 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama today announced a historic agreement with thirteen major automakers to pursue the next phase i...

EPA Proposes Air Pollution Standards for Oil and Gas Production

Cost-effective, flexible standards rely on operators’ ability to capture and sell natural gas that currently escapes, threatens air quality July 28, 2011 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protec...

NOAA, U.S. Department of Energy and Private Partners Launch Project to Reduce the Cost of Energy

There has not always been a need to know precisely how hard the wind blows 350 feet above Earth’s surface. Today, wind turbines occupy that zone of the atmosphere, generating electricity. So NOAA an...

U.S. Warmer and Drier than Normal in June

June 2011 brought temperature and precipitation extremes across the United States. An oppressive heat wave, accompanied by intensifying drought conditions, shattered temperature records in the South a...

Reclaiming our Spiritual Connection

Not long ago, as a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, I wrote my thesis on the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. Although I am concerned about the health and well-being of all people and the ea...

Incentives for Energy Efficiency

Ithink the biggest impact we can have on energy is people’s behavior. For example, if everyone bought a hybrid car, the Nation would eliminate a significant amount of its oil imports because our gas...

Terror, Violence & Religion: The International Conference at the Leiden Institute for Religious Studies

Ten years after the September 11th event and the beginning of the global war on terror, bombs are still blasting and innocent people are being killed under the banner of terrorism. Most of ...

U.S. Navy: Shore Energy Reform

The U.S. Navy, like the rest of the military, used to think about energy as a commodity. Now we think of it as a National Security requirement. It is a strategic resource and is fundamental to our mis...

Oasis of Stone: Visions of Baja California

In our daily lives we have traded the marvelous for the commercial – the world’s eloquence for mere comfort – and fail to understand the source of our alienation, our sadness. As a photographer,...

Information of Interest, May/June 2011

1. Study Addresses Freshwater Species Extinction & Development Policy (www.iwr.usace.army.mil/) – At Congressional hearings in 2002, critics testified that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Civil ...

Ways Forward Engaging Gender & Development

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) signed at the United Nations (UN) Millennium Summit in 2000 were formulated to end poverty and greatly reduce social, economic and political in...

The Changing Arctic: New Challenges & Opportunities

The summer of 2007 was a memorable time in the Arctic – a season of profound events and extremes. The 4th International Polar Year (IPY) was in high gear. Russia placed a flag on the seaf...

CH2M HILL Seeking Energy/Water Balance

Use power or take a shower? Surely this trade-off is one everyone would like to avoid. Yet, it takes water to make energy, and it takes energy to produce, treat and transport water to users. This inte...

HDR & SROI How to Measure “Green”

The prolonged economic downturn has increased pressure on municipalities to do more with less. The Obama Administration is attempting to solve this problem and transform the economy through “green...

Using Satellites to Sustain Earth

Darl Sagan, the astronomer whose award-winning Cosmos television series translated the mysteries of the planets and stars, once arranged for the Voyager spacecraft t...

HOBOS: A UNESCO-Awarded Learning Project

General education is a process crucial to humanity’s future progress as it offers skills necessary for the success of individuals and of societies, including enhancement of the abil...

USDA Forest Service Awards Nearly $3 Million for Renewable Energy Projects

Federal grants support the development of clean renewable energy, help reduce the risk of wildfire and provide economic opportunities to rural communities WASHINGTON, June 22, 2011 — Agriculture Sec...

US Forest Service Issues Framework and Map to Bolster Health of American Watersheds

Watersheds on national forests and grasslands are the source of 20 percent of the nation’s drinking water supply WASHINGTON, June 6, 2011 – The U.S. Forest Service released a new map on Friday tha...

New Study confirms Significant Land Loss Along Louisiana Coast

LAFAYETTE, La., June 3, 2011 – Coastal Louisiana has lost more than 1.2 million acres in the past 78 years, according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey National Wetlands Research Center. ...

Oil giant ConocoPhillips ‘pulls out’ of controversial Amazon project

US oil giant ConocoPhillips has reportedly announced it is pulling out of the controversial oil block 39 in the northern Peruvian Amazon. The decision comes after global outrage over the risk oil comp...

Eye Clinic Restores Sight, Hope for Malawians

BLILONGWE, Malawi, May 12, 2011 – Few memories from a medical exercise that wraps up here today stand out so vividly for a team of Army ophthalmologists than the moment when an elderly cataract-surg...

Air Force Research Lab: From Algae to Energy

My work at the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) is centered on using different types of biomass for energy. Our focus is on converting algae to energy, which involves taking different strains, seeing how...
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