NCDMM and GKN Aerospace Proving the Viability of Sustainable Machining Cells

Although many civilians may not understand what sustainable machining cells are, the concept is at the core of new efforts within the Department of Defense (DoD) to manufacture sustainable products, w...

Arctic Report Card: 2011 Update

The 2011 Arctic Report Card shows record-setting changes occurring throughout the Arctic environmental system. Given the projection of continued global warming, it is very likely that major Arctic cha...

Africa Partnership Station: Building Capacity & Enduring Friendships

Africa, with its one billion and counting population, its vast natural resources and its untapped human potential, has the power to assist the world economy, to become a model for equitable developmen...

EPA Cancels Registrations of Two Bird-Killing Pesticides

(Washington, D.C., March 1, 2012) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the cancellation of two toxic pesticides that were documented by American Bird Conservancy to have recurr...

February 2012 Headlines

1Oceans May be 150% More Acidic by 2100 (www.unesco.org) – Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels (CO2) are causing the ocean to ac...

Earth-Kind Innovation for a Kinder Earth

When I was five, my father drove me the short distance to Staten Island, N.Y., to see Fresh Kills, once the largest landfill in the world. I was absolutely speechless. The nearly two thousand acres of...

Information of Interest, Feb 2012

1. Caucasus Region Climate Change Impacts Study (www.envsec.org) – This 2011 report, Regional Climate Change Impacts Study for the South Caucasus Region, is the first cooperative study on the impact...

Frog Extinctions: An Environmental Crisis

Frog populations have been rapidly disappearing worldwide, and nearly one-third of the world’s amphibian species are endangered and on the verge of extinction. Approximately 200 amphibian species ha...

City & County of Denver A Model for Sustainable Action

Building smart in the City and County of Denver includes several programs designed to help the municipality and broad community achieve cost reductions and high performance, and to conserve use of nat...

Behaviorally Realistic Solutions to Environmental Problems

Why don’t people: set thermostats to use less energy when they are out of the house; cancel mail catalogs they never open; check their tire pressure regularly; ask whether their nursery stocks non-i...

Climate Change Implications & Recommendations for Security

Climate change is likely to have the greatest impact on security through its indirect effects on conflict and vulnerability. Many developing countries are unable to provide basic services and improvem...

Colonel (Ret.) Mark Mykleby on 21st Century Security

It’s common knowledge the Department of Defense (DoD) has considered the science of climate change, and it has accepted the conclusion that it’s real (reference the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review...

Environmental Change & Emerging Threats

According to Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO looks at environmental change very carefully because of its increasing impact on security. The Intern...

January 2012 Headlines

1DoD-NRDC Database Helps Identify Renewable Energy Sites (www.nrdc.org) – The Defense of Department (DoD) joined the National Resources Defense Co...

Draper Laboratory: The Growing Menace of Orbital Debris

The world is critically dependent on satellites in Earth orbit for global communications, navigation, weather forecasts, environment and resource monitoring, and numerous security functions. But, imag...

Mage Solar Understanding Solar Basics

It doesn’t take a solar expert to realize that the magnificent concept of clean, reliable and easy to deploy solar energy is unstoppably making its way into the collective conscience of society. Sol...

Christian Ziegler: The World of Wild Orchids

Confucius called them the “king of fragrant plants,” and John Ruskin condemned them as “prurient apparitions.” Across the centuries, orchids have captivated us with their elaborate exoticism,...

Information of Interest, Jan 2012

1. A National Security Imperative to Reduce U.S. Oil Dependence (www.cna.org) – The Center for Naval Analysis’ (CNA) Oct. 2011 report, A National Security Imperative to Reduce U.S. Oil Dependence,...

US Navy RADM Eccles: Surface Ship Energy Efficiency Initiatives

The United States Navy faces significant challenges with volatile and rising energy costs as well as with the security of its energy supplies. In 2009, Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Ray Mabus set goa...

NCDMM Sustainable Military Manufacturing

For many manufacturing companies, improving sustainability of manufacturing processes is a daunting task – strategically, tactically and economically. All too often manufacturers quickly find themse...

HDR Solid Waste Innovations

In 2010 the U.S. generated 250 million tons of trash, or municipal solid waste (MSW), and recycled and composted almost 85 million tons. On average, Americans recycled and composted 1.51 pounds of the...

Saving Energy & Costs Green Technology Road Improvements

After the long gas station lines of the two OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) crises of the 1970s, the onus for reducing fuel consumption was placed squarely on the consumer by mand...

Draper Laboratory Solving Military Energy Challenges

While previous Executive Orders and Federal legislation have been useful in moving Federal Agencies toward sustainability and, in many cases, have spelled out numerical targets to be achieved, the 201...

Acid Rain Study Show Substantial Decreases, But More Progress Is Needed

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Measurable improvements in air quality and visibility, human health, and water quality in many acid-sensitive lakes and streams, have been achieved through emissions reductions fr...

U.S. Forces Rescue Second Iranian Vessel

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2012 – For the second time in a week, a U.S. vessel has rescued Iranian mariners from a distressed vessel in regional waters. A team from the guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd, ...

International Thought Leaders Environmental Security & Natural Disasters

1.Geoffrey Lean on Environmental Security, U.N. Environment Programme “The tsunami which devastated countries around the Indian Ocean December 2004 tragically brought home the importance of e...

Atkins Engineering a Low-Carbon Society

Climate change puts the engineering profession at the threshold of the biggest fundamental change to our economy and our society since the last industrial revolution. Combating climate change requires...

Florian Schulz’s To the Arctic Intimate Photographs of Arctic Wildlife

Throughout the course of several years, award-winning wildlife photographer Florian Schulz has traveled to remote locations in the American and European Arctic to photograph their astounding diversity...

Information of Interest, Dec 2011

1. UN Development Programme’s 2011 Human Development Index (http://hdr.undp.org) – Norway, Australia and the Netherlands lead the world in the 2011 Human Development Index (HDI) while the Democrat...

HDR Supporting Sustainable Fish Habitats

Approximately 20 percent of the world’s freshwater fish species have become extinct, threatened or endangered in recent years, and some 75 percent of the major marine stocks are either depleted, ove...
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