Sustainability : Center for a Better Life : Jan 2012 livebetter eMagazine

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NASA's Social Innovation Concept, Integrating Development & Space: NASA Johnson Space Center's (JSC) social innovation concept encourages out-of-the-box problem solving within the NASA community to benefit both NASA's core mission and humanity’s most pressing needs. Because human space exploration technologies share similar requirements with developing world technologies...

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 2010 National Defense Authorization Act requires the Department of Defense (DoD) to use renewable sources for 25 percent of...

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 mandatory programs, such as the maximum 55 mph highway speed limit, high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes and incentivized car pooling...

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 their individual waste generation of 4.43 pounds per person per day. Consistent with these changes, the generation, recycling, composting and...

Resources for the Future, Landscapes as DoD Missionscapes: Several decades ago, environmental scholar and author Barry Commoner remarked on the "interconnectedness of everything." Yet governing institutions and resource managers, decades after Commoner's insight, still often operate within bounded jurisdictions using a single-issue lens. The Department of Defense, juxtaposing...

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 themselves mired in the processes of assessing environmental performances, analyzing assessment data, identifying improvement areas...

U.S. 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 goals to create a "Green Strike Group" by 2012, to deploy that strike group by 2016 and, by 2020, to use alternative sources for at least 50...

Worth Knowing, Information of Interest: The Center for Naval Analysis' (CNA) Oct. 2011 report, A National Security Imperative to Reduce U.S. Oil Dependence, is the latest in its energy security series driven by its primarily 3-and 4-star Military Advisory Board (MAB). According to the MAB, "Discussions of energy are discussions of national security. One directly affects...

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, their powerful perfumes and their sublime seductiveness. But the disquieting beauty of orchids is an unplanned marvel of evolution, and...

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. Solar is finally going mainstream in America, and it won’t be long before on-site generation of safe and infinitely renewable energy becomes...

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, imagine a world where such functions as hurricane tracking, climate change monitoring, communications in natural disaster zones, arms treaty...

News & Views, January 2012 Headlines: The Defense of Department (DoD) joined the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in developing a new mapping tool designed to help steer renewable energy development efforts to locations where they won’t interfere with military activities or environmentally sensitive areas. The new Renewable Energy and Defense...

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