military posts, articles, and infographics

Addressing Military Rights in the Warming Arctic Region

April 18, 2012 by Tom Schueneman
with 205 views

Climate change and global warming deniers deny, but there’s one important group of decision makers that are taking the reality of global warming seriously: Arctic region military leaders. [read more]

Powering the People 2.0: Investing in a Better Army

March 26, 2012 by Henry Spethmann
with 263 views

The Energy Collective was recently invited to attend Powering the People 2.0, hosted by the Edison Foundation and the Institute for Electric Efficiency. Among several presentations, the panel of army and military related experts was one of the most specific. [read more]

Hot topic: Rethinking climate security

March 16, 2012 by Charles Arthur
with 134 views

Corinne Schoch asks if militarizing climate change might harm those communities most affected by the problem *** Once upon a time, climate change was strictly an environment and development issue. Today, it has become a matter of national and international security. Efforts to link climate change with violent conflict may not be... [read more]

Defense Department Releases Roadmap to Transform Energy Use in Military Operations

March 13, 2012 by Jeff Voth
with 755 views

The Defense Department recently released its widely anticipated roadmap to transform operational energy security. Energy security has become a strategic as well as an operational imperative for U.S. national security. [read more]

DOD Steps Up Innovation in Installation Energy, Recognizes Limits in Biofuels

November 24, 2011 by Matt Hourihan
with 302 views

It’s worth noting a pair of recent developments on the Defense Department energy front. One is a useful reminder of what DOD can achieve now with the proper support, and a cause for optimism; the other, more pessimistic, illustrates the pressing need for accelerated innovation in the alternative fuels industry more broadly... [read more]

Global Warning

November 17, 2011 by Karen Street
with 347 views

People hear climate change through different concerns. Some hear threats to the environment, others to people, and others still to national security. (Of course, there is overlap.) For those in the national security category, the National Security Journalism Initiative has created Global Warning. Water shortages in Yemen Go to A... [read more]

To The Military, Renewable Energy a Matter of National Security

October 11, 2011 by Peter Lehner
with 306 views

When you’ve seen your soldiers die protecting a fuel convoy, you know that the need for clean energy and efficiency is real, urgent, and transcends political squabbling. This Sunday four high-ranking officials from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines spoke out in support of a clean energy future for America. They published an op-ed in... [read more]

The Greening of Defense: The Green Skeptic on WSJ's LunchBreak

October 7, 2011 by Scott Edward Anderson
with 129 views

I was on WSJ.com's LunchBreak with Wendy Bounds today talking about how the Department of Defense has become a true energy innovator and the potential benefits of an energy efficiency makeover of the Empire State building. Here is a link to the video on wsj.com: The Green Skeptic on LunchBreak [read more]

Operation 'Use The Sun': The U.S. Military’s Sustainability Strategy

September 24, 2011 by Sheila Oliva
with 501 views

For those of you who did not know, our military spends a lot of money to support itself. One of its biggest expenses is its huge appetite for energy. Specifically, according to Colonel Dan Nolan, “The DOD is the world’s largest oil consumer,” accounting for 25% of the globe’s consumption. Due to that need for oil, Colonel Nolan says that... [read more]

Changing the Military's Energy Culture

July 21, 2011 by Geoffrey Styles
with 659 views

At this week's Army/Air Force Energy Forum, the military signaled a higher priority on renewable energy and energy efficiency. [read more]

The U.S. Military Targets Fossil Fuel Addiction

July 18, 2011 by Silvio Marcacci
with 936 views

The U.S. military uses more energy than any single organization in the world, at a cost of $15 billion a year for operations across the globe, with almost all those dollars going to fuel costs. But that dependence has a human cost. More than 3,000 U.S. soldiers or contractors have been killed or wounded in fuel convoys in Iraq and Afghanistan – 60 percent of all combat deaths in the two wars. energyNOW! correspondent Lee Patrick Sullivan explored how the Department of Defense is working to cut fossil-fuel dependency and improve energy efficiency while maintaining its tactical edge to save American lives on the battlefield. [read more]

UMW: Messaging A Clean-Energy Future

July 1, 2011 by A Siegel
with 275 views

When it comes to discussing the value and power of a clean-energy future, in a way that touches core values and life-experiences of a good share of Americans, perhaps it is time to think and speak UMW. No … not the United Mine Workers. Instead, when we think UMW and energy, we should turn to three “institutions”... [read more]

Nuclear Industry Subsidies Part III: The Military Connection

July 1, 2011 by Charles Barton
with 538 views

This is the Part III of my review of Doug Koplow, Union of Concerned Scientists report titled, Nuclear Power: Still not viable without subsidies. Part I offered some definition of subsidies, and noted that very large government subsidies to the renewable power industry had not made renewable generated electricity cheap. Part I noted... [read more]

Honoring Our Troops With A Clean Energy Future

May 31, 2011 by Nicole Lederer
with 159 views

This post was co-authored with Lt. Gen. Norman R. Seip, (USAF-RET)Congress is debating the Defense Department authorization bill, the legislation that allocates the $700 billion needed to fund our military through 2012.Wrapped deep in the legislation is an important issue we can all relate to - fuel costs. The DOD consumes 2... [read more]

On Energy Transition, US Military Leads

December 20, 2010 by Scott Edward Anderson
with 1,028 views

Photo Credit: US ArmyAs Tom Friedman points out in his column yesterday, "the U.S. military loses one person, killed or wounded, for every 24 fuel convoys it runs in Afghanistan." Soldiers and others are put in harm's way as part of convoys, hundreds and hundreds of them, needed to transport fuel to run air conditioners and diesel... [read more]