Army Goes Green as Grafenwoehr Net Zero Plans Show Progress. Clean Power Published on October 14th, 2012 | by Tina Casey The U.S.
Army’s Garrison Grafenwoehr in Germany began winning environmental awards when President Bush was still in office, and now it bills itself as the leader in an ambitious new sustainability program launched under President Obama called the Army Net Zero initiative. As a military installation that also lays claim to the title “The Crown Jewel of U.S. Army Europe,” Grafenwoehr offers a critical lesson about the true meaning of genuine energy independence. Army Net Zero Initiative The Army Net Zero initiative launched in April 2011 with the goal of taking U.S. military facilities off the grid.
With all the saber-rattling over the Strait of Hormuz and the broader fiscal and logistical issues surrounding military oil dependency, it’s more than obvious why the Pentagon has been transitioning as rapidly out of fossil fuels as current technology allows. Grafenwoehr Net Zero Waste Grafenwoehr Clean Energy. Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong - By Leon Aron. Every revolution is a surprise.
Still, the latest Russian Revolution must be counted among the greatest of surprises. In the years leading up to 1991, virtually no Western expert, scholar, official, or politician foresaw the impending collapse of the Soviet Union, and with it one-party dictatorship, the state-owned economy, and the Kremlin's control over its domestic and Eastern European empires. Neither, with one exception, did Soviet dissidents nor, judging by their memoirs, future revolutionaries themselves. When Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party in March 1985, none of his contemporaries anticipated a revolutionary crisis. Although there were disagreements over the size and depth of the Soviet system's problems, no one thought them to be life-threatening, at least not anytime soon.
Whence such strangely universal shortsightedness? Indeed, the Soviet Union in 1985 possessed much of the same natural and human resources that it had 10 years before. David Glasheen: Australian castaway on island faces eviction. David Glasheen has been living on Restoration Island off the Australian coast for almost 20 years after he lost £6.5 million on the stock marketThe Supreme Court in Queensland, Australia has ruled that he must vacate the island after failing lease conditionsHe was required to develop tourist accommodation and fishing facilities as part of his £13,000 per year leaseThe man in his sixties has lived self-sufficiently with his sole companion, dog Quasi By Alex Ward Published: 10:46 GMT, 25 August 2012 | Updated: 11:12 GMT, 26 September 2012 A man living alone on an island like Robinson Crusoe for almost 20 years faces eviction from his castaway oasis.
The Australian man has been living on tiny Restoration Island off the north-eastern coast of Australia since 1993 after the former high-flying Sydney businessman lost £6.5 million in the 1987 stock market crash. The Queensland Supreme Court recently ruled that the land should be repossessed and that he and his business partners are ‘trespassers’. In Sweden, Taking File Sharing to Heart. And to Church. How to Make a Wind Turbine That Flies - Alexis Madrigal. Last week, we met Corwin Hardham, the CEO of Makani Windpower, which is at work on a revolutionary airborne wind turbine.
This week, I want you to actually see how the turbine works. Below, you'll find the final two installments of my interview with Hardham and some shots of the actual wing, as they call it. In the first video, Hardham describes the "transformational" turbine, but I think it's worth retracing how far they've come from the original vision. Makani was founded by windsurfers, so their initial designs were modeled on the kites that they knew.
They had soft bodies and were very, very light. But Makani's team stuck with it because, as you see in the final segment of my interview with Hardham, they believe they have two key advantages in the long renewable energy future. What-may-happen-in-2000-large.jpg (JPEG Image, 1108 × 1600 pixels) - Scaled (53%) 47 Mind-Blowing Psychology-Proven Facts You Should Know About Yourself. I’ve decided to start a series called 100 Things You Should Know about People.
As in: 100 things you should know if you are going to design an effective and persuasive website, web application or software application. Or maybe just 100 things that everyone should know about humans! The order that I’ll present these 100 things is going to be pretty random. So the fact that this first one is first doesn’t mean that’s it’s the most important.. just that it came to mind first. Dr. <div class="slide-intro-bottom"><a href=" class="sl-start"> »</a></div>