According to Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment Katherine Hammack, the report serves as a road map to relate ongoing and new sustainability efforts. To accelerate progress, the Army's senior leadership initiated a comprehensive sustainability campaign to institutionalize sustainability throughout the Army.

Each section of the report addresses topics of note, reports on EO 13514, DoD and Army sustainability metrics and highlights successes. The successes—which span the sustainability spectrum from reduced accidents to increased recycling, quality of life improvements, and increased cooperation with communities—include:

• 17.2% reduction in accidental military fatalities
• 12.6 % decrease in civilian lost time and fatal claims during fiscal 2009
• 42.9% increase in installations with formal sustainability plans (from 21 to 30) year over year, 2008-2009
• 28.4% reduction in hazard waste disposal year over year, 2008-2009
• 58% increase in recycling of solid waste and construction waste, year over year, 2008-2009
• 42.3% reduction in environmental enforcement actions, year over year, 2008-2009
• 25.3% increase in buffer partnerships, adding 120,657 acres

“Our plan is to appropriately manage our natural resources with a goal of net zero...,” says Hammack. Click here for the full report.

First Army project to use federal energy tax credit
The U.S. Army has awarded Johnson Controls the first Energy Savings Performance Contract since President Obama’s directive to make $2 billion worth of energy efficiency upgrades over the next two years using the ESPCs.