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Fed’s Grab LEED Gold For Big Office Complex

More than 6,400 U.S. Department of Defense employees formerly working out of commercially leased office spaces in and around Washington, D.C., have a new, LEED-certified home in a new complex at the...

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Military Green Growth Offset By Congress

You can add green building advocates to the list of people who have a gripe with the National Defense Authorization Act, which President Barack Obama signed into law on New Year’s Eve (despite his own...

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U.S. Military Eyes Big Solar On Desert Bases

Look at a map of Southern California, and you’ll see several large gray patches. These depict sprawling bases, testing ranges, weapons stations, airfields – you name it – that the various branches of...

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Forum Addresses Energy’s Role In National Security

Editor’s Note: EarthTechling is proud to repost this article courtesy of Midwest Energy News. Author credit goes to Dan Haugen. Military leaders are increasingly connecting the dots between energy,...

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Green Military: Battlefield Energy Goals Mapped Out

Unveiled last June, the U.S. military‘s Operational Energy Strategy, “Energy for the Warfighter,” is a call for greater energy efficiency in military operations, something the Pentagon says will save...

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Obama Pushes US Military To Go Even Greener

Continuing its campaign-year emphasis on a broad range of energy initiatives, the Obama administration today outlined a fresh roster of renewable-energy and energy-efficiency programs by the U.S...

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Hands Off Our Biofuels, Panetta Tells Congress

In yet another Washington fight over energy policy, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pushed back Wednesday against Congressional efforts to curtail the military push into alternative fuels. The...

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Great, Green Military Of The Future: Friend Or Foe?

Looking into a crystal ball it’s hard to bet against the possibility that the coming decades will be the era of the great renewable energy revolution. Do a swift 180 and look back at the two decades...

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US Navy Puts Teeth Into Its Big Green Policy

To read the document “OPNAV Instruction 4100.5E” [PDF] is to slide into a fantasy world where the science on global warming isn’t denied, energy efficiency is aggressively pursued and clean power is...

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US Military: Bring On The Solar, Wind Power

Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Defense signaled its desire to turn swaths of sun-drenched Southern California desert into solar-power producing stations. A new agreement with the Department...

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US Military Faces Trio Of Renewable Energy Goals

If the question is, “Will the U.S. military reach its renewable energy goal?” the best answer might be: “Which goal?” In his big climate-change speech this week, President Obama said the Department of...

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How Solar Saves The Military Big Bucks

Security, predictability, climate change, safety – all of these are cited by the U.S. Department of Defense as motivating factors for its embrace of energy-efficient and renewable technologies. But a...

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