Comments on: Environmental Security Part I: The Basics http://www.nesea.org/uncategorized/environmental-security-part-i-the-basics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=environmental-security-part-i-the-basics We Connect Sustainability Professionals to Ideas and Each Other. Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:06:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: francis http://www.nesea.org/uncategorized/environmental-security-part-i-the-basics/#comment-274 francis Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:30:44 +0000 http://www.nesea.org/blog/?p=501#comment-274 I am very impressed with all the latest research and success in geothermal technology--tapping into the earths natural resources to heat and cool your home and even pools makes sense to me. I am very impressed with all the latest research and success in geothermal technology–tapping into the earths natural resources to heat and cool your home and even pools makes sense to me.

]]> By: Ben http://www.nesea.org/uncategorized/environmental-security-part-i-the-basics/#comment-273 Ben Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:18:22 +0000 http://www.nesea.org/blog/?p=501#comment-273 Hi Joel, great post. You might be interested in some work a colleague of mine has done on the national security implications of climate change. Her names is Beth Chalecki, currently teaching at BC but her home page there is out of date. Here are links to an author search on GScholar and her student PhD webpage, which includes a then-current list of publications. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=author%3Achalecki-e http://fletcher.tufts.edu/phd/students/chalecki.shtml Let's catch up soon. Take care, Ben Hi Joel, great post.

You might be interested in some work a colleague of mine has done on the national security implications of climate change. Her names is Beth Chalecki, currently teaching at BC but her home page there is out of date. Here are links to an author search on GScholar and her student PhD webpage, which includes a then-current list of publications.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=author%3Achalecki-e
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/phd/students/chalecki.shtml

Let’s catch up soon. Take care,
Ben

]]> By: Joel Gordes http://www.nesea.org/uncategorized/environmental-security-part-i-the-basics/#comment-272 Joel Gordes Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:48:45 +0000 http://www.nesea.org/blog/?p=501#comment-272 Thank you, Fred, I truly appreciate your support in bringing this issue up to our community. While I have been into this relationship of climate change and security for many years now, I am always in awe of some of the relationships others have brought to my attention on it and feel the need to position it more prominently in the NESEA culture. It is one thing to build a building that is not as energy efficient and cost-effective as it could possibly be and most people will not pay too much attention BUT when it is noted that buildings of certain types may weaken our national security, it opens up a whole new outlook. It is my hope that every time our speakers mention the environmental benefits of what we do, what we build and what we espouse, they also add the national security aspects to it. Best, Joel Gordes Thank you, Fred,

I truly appreciate your support in bringing this issue up to our community. While I have been into this relationship of climate change and security for many years now, I am always in awe of some of the relationships others have brought to my attention on it and feel the need to position it more prominently in the NESEA culture. It is one thing to build a building that is not as energy efficient and cost-effective as it could possibly be and most people will not pay too much attention BUT when it is noted that buildings of certain types may weaken our national security, it opens up a whole new outlook.

It is my hope that every time our speakers mention the environmental benefits of what we do, what we build and what we espouse, they also add the national security aspects to it.

Best,
Joel Gordes

]]> By: Fred Unger http://www.nesea.org/uncategorized/environmental-security-part-i-the-basics/#comment-271 Fred Unger Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:27:11 +0000 http://www.nesea.org/blog/?p=501#comment-271 Joel, On Tuesday, General Wesley Clark was the keynote speaker at the Rhode Island Green Economy Roundtable hosted by the Governor. It was the most impassioned and in most regards the most realistic talk I have ever heard regarding the need to transition our energy realities. And it was framed entirely in the context that you always very rightly bring us back to at NESEA - National Security. We should start now to line up General Clark to be our keynote speaker for the 2011 Building Energy Conference. I suspect that a year from now, these issues will unfortunately be even more clearly compelling than they are now. The "sale" of the solutions NESEA has to offer will be far easier to make if we focus on issues that are clearly compelling to all Americans. For better or worse, Climate Change is a major concern to only a small minority of Americans. In contrast, September 11, 2001 hopefully made all of us acutely aware of the national security implications of our continuing addiction to mid-east oil. In my mind, national security is a key primary driver of everything NESEA advocates. Thank you for continually reminding us of that. Fred Joel,

On Tuesday, General Wesley Clark was the keynote speaker at the Rhode Island Green Economy Roundtable hosted by the Governor. It was the most impassioned and in most regards the most realistic talk I have ever heard regarding the need to transition our energy realities. And it was framed entirely in the context that you always very rightly bring us back to at NESEA – National Security.

We should start now to line up General Clark to be our keynote speaker for the 2011 Building Energy Conference. I suspect that a year from now, these issues will unfortunately be even more clearly compelling than they are now.

The “sale” of the solutions NESEA has to offer will be far easier to make if we focus on issues that are clearly compelling to all Americans. For better or worse, Climate Change is a major concern to only a small minority of Americans. In contrast, September 11, 2001 hopefully made all of us acutely aware of the national security implications of our continuing addiction to mid-east oil.

In my mind, national security is a key primary driver of everything NESEA advocates. Thank you for continually reminding us of that.

Fred

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