| From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
| Date: | Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:50:03 -0800 (PST) |
| Reply: | cpeo-military |
| Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Dyess Air Force Base (TX) goes "green" |
Employing new tactics in a strategy of conservation By CHRIS VAUGHN Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) December 16, 2007 ABILENE -- The largest employer in this city on a long stretch of West Texas uses methane gas from a landfill to power its buildings, pipes slushy ice through barracks for air conditioning and uses effluent to water the landscape. It is probably the greenest employer in Abilene, using a two-headed approach of reducing energy consumption and investing in environmentally friendly utilities in an area where the bread and butter is oil and gas. The employer, believe it or not, is the U.S. Air Force, ... For the entire article, see http://www.star-telegram.com/state_news/story/362887.html -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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