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How to get the military to support your green project; disaster relief; native american land restoration; military partnerships with local communites

Talks in Dublin began concerning a possible treaty to ban cluster bombs.

it's official. there's now a green way to kill people.

It looks like Solazyme will be making algal biodiesel for the US military, after a test-drive demonstrated the fuel’s superior cold-weather properties when compared to commercially-available biodiesel. Former Director of Central Intelligence and Under-Secretary of the Navy R. James Woolsey tested the fuel himself by driving to the Worldwide Energy Conference & Trade Show in an unmodified 2008 Ford F450 fueled by 100% algal biodiesel.

Apparently the US Military has a green tinge to it; a new case study/article:"The world's largest collection of solar air heated buildings; 50 SolarWall systems installed on 27 buildings, 110,000f2 of solar panels, Projected fuels savings of 44,000 million BTU/h (46,000GJ) per year, 4MW of thermal energy capacity, 2,000 tons of CO2 displaced/yr"

More than 700 veterans who witnessed atomic explosions in the South Pacific in the 1950s have joined a compensation claim against the British Ministry of Defence. Many of the veterans, including the captain of the Navy warship, HMS Diana believe that the British government was deliberately testing the effects of radiation on the men as well as the ship. The ship was ordered to steam through the fallout from two atomic explosions.

Representative Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) is interviewed about peak oil, constraints to US energy supply and the series of Special Order speeches he has delivered on the subject.

The largest employer in Abilene, Texas - and a model among military installations around the country - has reduced both its energy and water usage with various enviro-friendly approaches. By using graywater, Dyess Air Force Base has cut the city's water usage by 2 percent. With the installation of skylights, dimmer switches and by just turning off the AC, the base has reduced its electrical consumption by about 20 percent.

The United States Air Force is well on their way to becoming coal-powered. On Monday, the USAF carried out a transcontinental test flight using a 50-50 blend of standard jet fuel and coal-based ’synfuel’.While synthetic fuel has the capacity to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, it could also double CO2 emissions produced by military flight.

The Arctic Ice Sheet is no longer reaching the Alaskan Northern Coast, and the waves are taking the land and the US Air Force Radar Stations with it. The Radar Stations are also home to contaminants in the soil that will soon end up in the sea.

We've heard rumblings of ultra-efficient attack vehicles, biodiesel jets and other clean tech advancements for years, but the Department of Defense really be called green?

Important developments have unfolded in Japan since we wrote earlier this month about the threatened dugongs and plans to expand a U.S. military base on Okinawa's coast. The large marine mammals and their habitat on the north-east coast of Okinawa Island can be saved, but our window of opportunity to act is closing fast.

Dugongs living on the coast of Japan’s Okinawa island are threatened by the proposed expansion of a U.S. military base there. Throughout September, the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the proposed airbase site is open for public comment. Greenpeace are using this opportunity to let the Japanese government know what the people of the world think - by delivering a petition of thousands of names to the environment and defence ministries, and calling on the government to establish a marine reserve in the area.

Slate's Daniel Engber worries about (ahem) overkill on viewing the military’s latest bizarre gizmos, now on display at the DARPATech Conference in Anaheim. Engber notes there is a plethora, if not a surfeit, of robotics technology now enabling the military to do their fighting remotely. And, the new kid on this block is ‘StickyBot’, a robotic lizard that appears to already incorporate the latest nano research on gecko feet.