The Army is changing the way it does green, according to a new memo from one of the Army’s top energy and environment chiefs. Katherine Hammack, assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy and the environment, released an updated memo containing guidelines for improving green-building standards. It will revise the Army’s all-around green-building approach, [...]

The Defense Department has its eye set on reducing the armed forces’ reliance on fossil fuels both as a matter of national security and a way to save money, according to one of the Pentagon’s top energy specialists. Sharon Burke, director of DoD’s operational energy plans and programs, said reducing demand and consumption of fossil [...]

Representatives from the Obama administration, industry leaders and regulators, and energy advocates and entrepreneurs will all converge in Washington this week for the annual Smart Grid summit, GridWeek. The event aims to explore the impact implementing the Smart Grid–the modern electricity network that uses two-way digital communications technology–will have on the economy, infrastructure and the [...]

It’s a story that stretches from the battlefield to the drawing board. A team at Fort Belvoir, Va., won a coveted GreenGov Presidential Award for its plans to develop a sustainable, green community at Fort Belvoir. The Army’s Residential Communities Initiative plans for a 50-year public-private partnership to build more than 2,000 green homes on [...]

Despite mediocre poll numbers and the sense of doom clouding hopes for Democratic success in November, things may have gotten a little sunnier at the White House. The Obama administration this week announced plans to install solar panels on the White House roof to demonstrate President Barack Obama’s commitment to low-carbon energy. MarketWatch reports the [...]

While NASA has been knocked off its orbit lately, one of its most recent endeavors never left the ground but is still leading the pack in innovation. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced earlier this week that its massive 50,000 square-foot, two-story Sustainability Base in Ames, Calif., was named the winner of the General [...]

The U.S. Navy is pouring funds into environmentally friendly algae fuel to be used on board its ships and aircraft. The biofuel’s producer, Solazyme, just signed its third contract with the military to provide the algae-based biofuel – 150,000 gallons by 2011. The company has already delivered 20,000 gallons to the Navy. Solazyme will also [...]

Boeing has signed an $89 million deal with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop an unmanned solar-powered aircraft. The SolarEagle is being created under the auspices of the Vulture II demonstration program and will have its first flight in 2014. “SolarEagle is a uniquely configured, large unmanned aircraft designed to eventually remain [...]

NASA held a Green Aviation Summit this week at its Ames Research Center to discuss ways to make air travel more efficient and environmentally friendly. “As the world travels even more, we’re going to have a very serious global warming issue, as well as lots of other environmental impacts of aviation,” said Ames Research Center [...]

While green IT has been a hot topic in the last few years, real progress has been slow, and the industry is highly unlikely to reduce its carbon emissions by 2020, according to a new survey. Sponsored by Fujitsu, the “Green IT: The Global Benchmark” surveyed more than 600 CIOs and IT managers to determine [...]