Sustainability Awareness Training

1. Sustainability Awareness Training For IMCOM Pacific by CALIBRE

2. Welcome to the Sustainability Awareness Training control center. This control center provides a training course map and convenient links to sustainability resources. After each phase of training, you will return to this control center to select the next activity in this course map. At the end of the training you will be tested and receive an electronic certificate upon successful completion of the course. Select Step 1 to begin your training. Step I Step II Step III Step IV Step V Optional Additional Information

3. INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABILITY Step I Step II Step III Step IV Step V Optional Additional Information Select Step 1 to begin your training. Step I

4. Sustainability is the concept of meeting the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Current consumption rate and resource demand is not sustainable.

5. Step I Step II Step III Step IV Step V Optional Additional Information • GLOBAL: • Challenges Select Step 2 to continue your training. Step II

6. We face GLOBAL CHALLENGES • Population growth • Natural resource scarcity • Global impacts • Ever-increasing global population, urbanization, advances in technology, and resource depletion have effectively made the world smaller.  They have placed greater stresses on the world’s interconnected human, economic, and natural systems.

7. GLOBAL CHALLENGES: Population Growth In the U.S. the population is projected to increase by 7 times between the years 1900 and 2050 US Census Bureau Statistics and Projections Rising population= Rising conflicts over scarce resources= more work for the US military Sprawl near active military installations and ranges generates incompatible development that makes it more difficult for the military to operate and train .

8. GLOBAL CHALLENGES: Resource Scarcity Average Ecological Footprints in 2008: 5.1 acres/person available worldwide 6.7 acres /person used worldwide (we would need 1.3 Planets Earths to support this lifestyle) 23.3 acres / person used by average American (US) (over 4.5 Planets Earths to support this lifestyle) In the US we are living as if we had over 4.5 planets to support us. We obviously only have one! By turning resources into waste faster than waste can be turned back into resources, we are placing ourselves in a global ecological overshoot, depleting the very resources on which human life and biodiversity depend. As a result we are experiencing collapsing fisheries, diminishing forest cover, depletion of fresh water systems, and the build up of pollution and waste, which create problems such as global climate change. These are just a few of the most noticeable effects of resource depletion. This environmental overshoot also contributes to resource conflicts and wars, mass migrations, famine, disease and other human tragedies. Current consumption rate and resource demand is not sustainable. The US Military comprises a small percentage of total US area, however Department of Defense is the largest energy consumer of all federal agencies.

9. Step I Step II Step III Step IV Step V Optional Additional Information • GLOBAL: • Impacts Select Step 2 to continue your training. Step II

10. Ice Melting, Rising Sea Levels SpeciesExtinction Phytoplankton Loss Erosion Wildfires GLOBAL RESULTS OF Non-Sustainable Activities Drought Desertification Deforestation Water Pollution Fossil Fuel Scarcity Floods Water Depletion Air Pollution Habitat Destruction

11. GLOBAL IMPACTS: Wasteful and Inefficient Technologies Our current production systems are designed as if there are no limits to our natural resources. 6% Product Manufacturing Process Raw Material 94% Waste • 80% of products are discarded after single use. • 99% of original materials made in the US become waste within 6 weeks of sale. • Over 254 million tons of municipal solid waste/year in US, is equal to 4.62 pounds/person/day

12. Step I Step II Step III Step IV Step V Optional Additional Information • GLOBAL: • Solutions Select Step 2 to continue your training. Step II

13. SOLUTION- SUSTAINABILITY For humans to live sustainably, the Earth's resources must be used at a rate at which they can be replenished. However, there is now clear scientific evidence (global changes, ecological footprint, etc.) that humanity is living unsustainably, and that an unprecedented collective effort is needed to return human use of natural resources to within sustainable limits. Sustainability needs a systemic approach ALL OF US need to put together the puzzle!

14. Recycling our waste has enormous environmental and economic benefits by reducing landfill space used, alleviating demands for raw materials, and by using less energy consumption. Recycling leaves our air cleaner and reduces water pollution, it lowers waste-disposal bills, and yields cheaper goods. It takes 40 - 95% less energy to produce goods with recycled aluminum, glass, plastic, or paper than it does to manufacture them with raw materials. Zero waste does not aim to simply manage waste, but eliminate its creation in the first place. Every product (and all packaging they require) should be efficiently designed, enablingevery component to return to the natural ecosystem through biodegradation or be recycled indefinitely, which will result in lower total life-cycle costs. TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY : A Zero-Waste Society MOST PREFERRED OPTION PREVENTION- cloth bag REDUCE- buy in bulk rather than many small items REUSE- glass bottles RECYCLING ENERGY RECOVERY- generating station/ incinerator LEAST PREFERRED OPTION DISPOSAL- landfill Waste Hierarchy

15. Incorporate definition of “systems thinking”, can be given by an example (David will call Kevin and have him send me one) The world is an interconnected place: air flow picture, currents, Video/book: “the incredible life of stuff” World interconnectedness slide, Followed by transition slide: army global system slide- maybe a rectangular map of the earth with all the army installations all over it. Maybe call it “sustainability and you”

16. ARMY MISSION: • Challenges Step I Step II Step III Step IV Step V Optional Additional Information Select Step 1 to begin your training. Step I

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18. CHALLENGES TO MILITARY MISSION Advances in technology, ever-increasing global population, and urbanization have effectively made the world smaller.  Encroaching communities, increasing maneuver/training and equipment testing requirements, deteriorating natural resources, funding uncertainties, aging infrastructure, and other variables all challenge the Army's ability to maintain mission readiness while being a model steward of the environment. Military installations are increasingly impacted by resource, land use and community issues.

19. Challenges to the Military Mission with tank pic

20. Meet the Challenges To meet these challenges, the Army is transforming how it fights, how it trains, how it does business, and how it interacts with others in order to continually improve and provide for the Nation’s security. More importantly, the Army is changing the way of thinking and acting. In response to new challenges the Army is implementing a mission-focused Sustainability program. What is it?Army sustainability accelerates movement from a traditional, compliance-based approach to environmental stewardship to an innovative, mission-oriented, systems-based approach.  This approach leverages the interdependence among mission, environment, and community in all our operations in order to ensure that the Army will have the capabilities it needs to transform to meet the challenges of the future.  Sustainable practices will improve our ability to organize, equip, train, and deploy our Soldiers as part of the Joint Force. The Army Strategy for the Environment – Sustain the Mission, Secure the Future states: "a sustainable Army simultaneously meets current as well as future mission requirements worldwide, safeguards human health, improves quality of life and enhances the natural environment."   Who does sustainability apply to? Sustainability supports the Army in all its missions and applies to all Army units, organizations, personnel, suppliers, support contractors and partners. 

21. Why Sustainability? Economic prosperity, environmental progress, and community concerns are all aspects of sustainability. Global changes, resource depletion, land development, and other challenges are significant issues that demonstrate the need to think sustainably. The classic definition of sustainability comes from the United Nations Brundtland Commission of 1987 as a concept that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” The business world has adapted this definition of sustainability into “triple bottom line” practices of simultaneously caring for people and the planet while making a profit. In the case of the Army, this incorporates MISSION, ENVIRONMENT and COMMUNITY.

22. Goal  energy self sufficient Objective  ie. Reduce energy use by 50% in 5 years (Get real #’s from David) Target  ie. Replace current technology with recyclable systems in which each part of a mechanism/appliance can be reused (a zero-waste society) Energy Policy Act of 2005 This law mandates the minimum contribution of renewable energy to an installation's total electricity consumption. The targets are: 3% FY 2007 through FY 2009 5% through FY 2012, and Not less than 7.5 % beginning FY 2013.http://army-energy.hqda.pentagon.mil/renewable/renewable.asp *Arrange slide in presentable manner*

23. Sustain our Army Installations: • GOALS: • Sustainable Installations and Operations • Prepare by: • Energy security • Energy efficiency and alternatives • Water efficiency and surety • Less greenhouse gas • Sustainable Army Training Areas • Strong Communities

24. Mission impact slide, to be provided by David

25. ARMY MISSION: • Sustainable Practices Step I Step II Step III Step IV Step V Optional Additional Information Select Step 3 to begin your training. Step I

26. Operationalize Sustainability: Can be achieved by moving from individual initiatives to an enterprise-wide synchronization of efforts across multiple lines of operations. This increased cross-functional awareness of programs will enable us to maximize efficiencies.

27. Meeting the ChallengesOptimize …

28. Mission slide • MISSION • Zero footprint • Logistics Examples • Energy: self sufficient, alt. fuels, new technologies

29. Environment Slide • ENVIRONMENT • ACUB example • Sust. Range Management (SRM) • Green Procurement • Recycling

30. COMMUNITY slide • Partnering with communities outside the fence line is a crucial part of the Army securing the mission and sustaining the future. The Army has launched a Web site to help strengthen partnerships between the Army and the communities around its installations and ranges by providing practical tools, methods, examples, and information related to public involvement in support of the mission of the U.S. Army. The Web site is called Army Public Involvement Toolbox, Communication, Coordination, Consultation and Collaboration. It can be viewed via following link: http://www.asaie.army.mil/Public/IE/Toolbox/default.html SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES • COMMUNITY • Example: education • Stable home/ life/ family • Quality of Life

31. SUSTAINABLE INITIATIVES WITHIN ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND GREEN PROCUREMENT In January 2009, the Army announced that it planned to lease 4,000 "neighborhood electric vehicles" -- the largest order of its kind -- to use for passenger transport, security patrols, and maintenance and delivery services at various bases around the country. These street-legal vehicles, which are also being developed for civilian use, look like futuristic golf carts, and they reach top speeds of about 25 miles per hour. In their downtime, they can be plugged in at recharging stations; each charge can last 30 miles. The plan is for the Army to take delivery of the 4,000 NEVs over a three-year period, with the first six vehicles recently supplied by a division of the Chrysler Corp. In the future, the Army plans to develop battlefield hybrid-electric "manned ground vehicles." Such innovations, will cut the Army's dependence on fossil fuels as well as the number of refueling convoys in combat. On another front, the Army has rewritten building design standards, modeling them on stores like Wal-Mart, to make better use of natural light. The skylights support smart wiring, so that as the sun rises and sets or storms roll in and out, lights dim and brighten. The Army also has projects in geothermal energy in Hawthorne, Nev., drilling wells to access 300-degree water that creates steam to generate electricity and power installations. The goal is to have enough energy left over to provide power to the surrounding community. To cut down on the generators' heavy workload, the Army recently hit on a simple energy saver. In the past several months, it began covering its tents in Iraq and Afghanistan with a 2-inch layer of hard foam. The fuel-saving results have been remarkable. When the Army did a test on two identical tents in sweltering Fort Irwin, Calif., the interior of a tent that wasn't foamed -- and this is the case with the vast majority of tents in Iraq and Afghanistan, where temperatures often soar above 110 degrees -- reached a temperature of 125 degrees inside, while the insulated tent remained 85 degrees. What it means is that the fuel required to power the generators can decrease, because you don't need as many AC units or heaters to be running to get the tent to a comfortable temperature. The Army did some math and learned that a 1 percent reduction in its fuel consumption in war zones results in 6,444 fewer soldiers in convoys. And fewer convoysmean fewer casualties. That's all part of the energy equation. SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES Even the most minor changes can result in huge reductions in energy consumption and emission of air pollutants.

32. SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES Green Procurement Sustainable Interior Showrooms Sustainable Interior Showrooms display environmentally preferred office furniture and flooring for people at installation looking to update their offices. LINK http://www.sustainability.army.mil/news/docs_success/FortLewisSIS.pdf deconstruction & Demolition Solid Waste Even old buildings can find new life through recycling. Deconstruction, or the disassembly of a building, recovers parts from old buildings. The recovered materials are reused, salvaged and recycled rather than dumped in the landfill, which happens if the building is demolished instead of deconstructed. Example or reused material includes building of Iraqi village training ground from recycled and diverted materials at Ft. Bragg, N.C..With an on-post concrete crusher Fort Benninghas the capability to grind concrete, masonry rubble, and asphalt for aggregate used throughout the post. By having on-post crusher Fort Benning avoids waste disposal fees and costs associated with purchasing aggregate or gravel for installation roads, ranges, and other projects. Green Buildings /housing Fort Benningis now participating in the Residential Communities Initiative (RCI), which transfers ownership, construction, maintenance, and operation of military family housing to large housing contractors through 50-year contracts. The housing privatization partner incorporates sustainable design and development principles and practices into the design, construction, and operation of family housing. Natural gas, water, and electricity will be metered at each housing unit, which will help to pinpoint possibilities for energy conservation. Garrison Hawaii builds Army Hawaii Family Housing project in sustainable way by:- minimizing waste during demolition and construction,- building homes with sustainable design that last , - reducing energy consumption, and- using renewable solar energy to power residential communities. http://aec.army.mil/usaec/newsroom/usaghi.pdf

33. SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES Green Procurement Power Army policy is to purchase Green Power—electricity generated from renewable energy sources when it is available. The Army is making a special effort to purchase renewable energy generated from solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass. Alternatively Fueled VehiclesA number of installations throughout the country have flexible fueled vehicles as a part of their fleet. These installations also have gas stations with alternative refueling points. Examples of flexible fueled vehicles are: Vehicles that run on compressed natural gas; Ethanol (E85) capable vehicles; Bi-fuel vehicles that have two separate fuel systems (compressed natural gas and gasoline), which operate independently; Vehicles that run on Biodiesel;Electric hybrids, which run on battery power and gasoline. The electric hybrid battery pack is designed to last up to 10 years and do not require charging, according to the manufacturer. One tank of gasoline can fuel the hybrid for up to 650 miles; In addition to flexible fueled vehicles the neighborhood electric vehicles (NEV) are used at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. NEV run solely on gel cell batteries. The vehicles plug into an outlet to recharge. http://aec.army.mil/usaec/sustainability/nev00.html LINK

34. Workplace Sustainment Slide Sustainability into the future Ex. Also include example outside of military base for spouses (ie. Staples) OPERATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY Take from ACOS CASY brief, one of the printouts and expand on this

35. *CHANGE TO INFORMATION MORE DIRECT TO MILITARY INFLUENCE Recycling our waste has enormous environmental and economic benefits by reducing landfill space used, alleviates demands for raw materials, uses less energy consumption. Recycling leaves our air cleaner and reduces water pollution, lowers waste-disposal bills, and yields cheaper goods. It takes 40 - 95% less energy to produce goods with recycled aluminum, glass, plastic, or paper than it does to manufacture them with raw materials. Zero waste does not aim to simply manage waste, but eliminate its creation in the first place. Every product (and all packaging they require) should have a complete "closed-loop" cycle mapped out for each component—a way in which every component will either return to the natural ecosystem through biodegradation or be recycled indefinitely). TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY : A Zero-Waste Society MOST PREFERRED OPTION PREVENTION MINIMIZATION REUSE RECYCLING ENERGY RECOVERY LEAST PREFERRED OPTION DISPOSAL Waste Hierarchy (reduce, reuse, recycle) ARMY EXAMPLE OF ZERO WASTE NOT NECESSARILY IN THIS ORDER BUT SIMILAR TO THIS SLIDE

36. ARMY MISSION/ FACILITIES: • Solutions at Garrison Hawaii Step I Step II Step III Step IV Step V Optional Additional Information Select Step 1 to begin your training. Step I

37. Garrison HAWAII The World’s Largest Solar Powered Residential Area • The Garrison will see more than 5,300 new and 2,500 renovated homes through the project • Initiatives include: minimizing waste during demolition and construction, building homes that last and reducing energy consumption. “Photovoltaic and solar [panels] to reduce energy consumption is just a start. Urban home design, the appliances we use, and even our daily habits at home and work are essential to this garrison’s sustainability goals.” –Killian, Col, U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii 2004-07 • The preservation of large, mature trees and planting of new trees will reduce what is called the urban heat-island effect. • Other energy reducing installations include: coated window glass that reflects heat while letting visible light pass through, heat-reflective barriers under roofing shingles, insulation, roof vents and high-efficiency air conditioning. • The rooftop photovoltaic cells should eventually produce a total of 6 mw, about 30% of the project’s power needs.

39. PERSONAL: • Challenges Step I Step II Step III Step IV Step V Optional Additional Information Select Step 1 to begin your training. Step I

40. CHALLENGES: Environmental Distresses as mentioned previously Sustainable solutions save money in the long run, and instantaneously in many cases Saving resources for your children

41. PERSONAL: • Impacts/Changes Step I Step II Step III Step IV Step V Optional Additional Information Select Step 1 to begin your training. Step I

42. Facts, Life Cycles and Solutions for Several Different Every-day Materials EXAMPLES OF sust. Challenge, process, life cycle, solving Plastic bags (facts, process, solution), aluminum cans, cfl’s, and gasoline- ie. Systems thinking Followed by series of examples to follow

43. Facts for Aluminum • Aluminum beverage cans: • Are 100% Recyclable.Can be recycled over and over and over again. Aluminum is infinitely recyclable material. • Go from recycling bin back onto shelf at the grocery store in as little as 60 days filled with your favorite beverage.  • Can be recycled into soda cans, license plates, aluminum foil

44. Life Cycle of Aluminum Life-Cycle of a Coke Can

45. SUSTAINABILITY EXAMPLE - Aluminum Can Recycling The Benefits of Recycling Aluminum Cans: • Recycling one can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours or a 100-watt light bulb for four hours or 25 Watt CFL bulb for over 14 hours. • The energy saved each year through recycled aluminum beverage cans could light the city of Washington, D.C. for almost 4 years. • Recycling of 48 aluminum cans is equal to the amount of energy in 1 gallon of gas. • Recycling aluminum into new ingots to be used for manufacturing takes less than 5% of the energy it takes to manufacture aluminum from bauxite ore. It only requires melting down the recycled aluminum and removing impurities, which is much less energy intensive than mining bauxite and refining it into alumina to be used to create aluminum. In fact, for every pound of recycled aluminum the industry uses, it saves over 7.5 kilowatt-hours of electricity and it saves 4.5 pounds of bauxite ore from being strip-mined. • Americans earn nearly $1 billion dollars annually from recycling aluminum cans! Think of how much could be made if everyone recycled. Some Fun Facts about Recycling Aluminum Cans: • American's drink an average of 370 beverages in aluminum cans each year. Thanks to those who do recycle, the recycling rate for aluminum cans is now 50%... That's a lot of cans! • If American's recycled all the aluminum they throw away it would be enough aluminum to build the entire consumer airline fleet EVERYthree months! • If the average American recycled just one more can each week it would provide enough energy and money to provide all the electricity needs for Alaska for 2 ½ years. Natural Resource Preservation + Emission Avoidance = = $ =

46. SUSTAINABILITY - CLOSING THE LOOP

47. The Plastic Bag - a bit of history These days, most plastic bags are made from a type of plastic called polyethylene. 80% of polyethylene is produced from natural gas - an abundant, yet non-renewable resource. Polyethylene, as a raw material, can be manipulated into any shape, size, form or color. It’s watertight and can made UV resistant. It can be printed on and reused many, many times. In many cases, it can be recycled but is not considered “cradle to cradle” meaning it cannot be recycled over and over nor returned to an organic state. According to a timeline published by plasticsindustry.org, the first plastic bags were baggies and sandwich bags on a roll introduced in 1957.  The industry continued to grow and between 1974-1975 retail giants such as Sears, J.C. Penney, Federated and Allied adopted plastic bags for store merchandise. When did the plastic grocery bag hit the market? That would be 1977, the year Jimmy Carter was sworn in as our 39th President, Star Wars hit the theatre and Apple Computer was incorporated. In 1996 it was estimated that 4 out of 5 grocery bags used were plastic.

48. Plastic bags are produced from crude oil. They are made from an infinitesimal chain of hydrocarbons. Even when broken down into the smallest pieces they can be broken down into, these hydrocarbon chain will NEVER biodegrade into the organic components of CO2 and H2O. This means that the pieces are not small enough for microbes to disintegrate as they do with organic compounds. Yet, larger animals are able to consume these plastics, the effects of which are not yet known. Many times, toxins are infused in non-food related plastics in order to achieve different properties (ie. elasticity). This presents another problem, as it is also unknown what kind of physiological effect this will have on organisms, and ultimately will result in the bioaccumulation of toxins in the food chain. Who is at the top of the food chain? • Americans make 2.3 trips to the grocery store each week. If people use 5 to 10 bags each time, that's between 600 and 1200 bags per person per year. The United States Environmental Protection Agency estimates that somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year. • Each plastic bag is used in average only about 10 minutes and then discarded. Research from 2000 shows 1% of plastic bags were recycled. Plastic bags can take 5-10 years to decompose outdoors and even longer in a landfill. Less than 1% of shoppers consistently use cloth shopping bags. A packed standard-sized cloth shopping bag can hold twice as many items as plastic bags. • Plastic Bags negative impacts: • Plastic bags easily fly or float into habitats that cause a great deal of permanent harm to native wildlife: birds become terminally entangled and some 200 species of sea life including whales, dolphins, seals and turtles die due to plastic bags • Inability to completely break down, as a consequence • microscopic particles can enter the food chain • Costly recycling • Foreign oil dependency Life Cycle of Plastic Bags

49. Simple Solution?

50. PERSONAL: • Solutions Step I Step II Step III Step IV Step V Optional Additional Information Select Step 1 to begin your training. Step I