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Authors:Michael V. Hynes, John E. Peters, Denis Rushworth
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: marad, ships, navy, option, reefs, disposal, artificial
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 083303510X
ISBN-13: 9780833035103
By 2005, the U.S. Navy and the Maritime Administration will have accumulated some 360 retired ships in need of disposal. A previous RAND study reviewed disposal options such as recycling (either domestically or overseas) and long-term storage. However, preparation and use of the ships for construction of artificial reefs was identified as the lowest-cost option. With the demonstrated potential attractiveness of reefing as a disposal option, in this study the authors examine the economic, legal, environmental, and programmatic issues that might bear on the Navy
Authors:Mahyar A. Amouzegar, Lionel A. Galway, Amanda B.
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: engine, intermediate, maintenance, jet, alternatives, expeditionary, aerospace, forces, supporting
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2002
ISBN-10: 0833031031
ISBN-13: 9780833031037
In recent years, the United States Air Force has found it necessary to perform a number of overseas deployments, many on short notice, in support of a wide range of crises. Toward this goal, the Air Force has begun to reorganize itself into an Expeditionary Aerospace Force that can quickly deploy from the continental United States to appropriate forward operating locations worldwide. This report evaluates the manner in which Jet Engine Intermediate Maintenance (JEIM) shops can best be configured to facilitate such deployments. The authors examine a number of JEIM support options, which are dis
Author: Charles Siegel
Publisher: Preservation Institute
Keywords: living, simple, politics
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2008-09-01
ISBN-10: 0978872827
ISBN-13: 9780978872823
This book calls for a new politics of simple living, and it describes specific policies, such as: Work-Time Choice: Today, most people have no choice but to take full-time jobs, because most part-time jobs have lower hourly pay and no benefits. We need policies that let us choose part-time work, so people have the option of consuming less and having more free time. Neighborhood Choice: Since World War II, federal freeway policies and local zoning laws forced most American cities to be rebuilt as low-density sprawl where people cannot leave their houses without driving. We need to build walkabl
Author: Benedictine Sisters of Erie Pennsylvalnia
Publisher: Earth Force, Inc.
Keywords: benedictine, communities, audit, environmental, earth, listening
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 1997-04-21
eBookDB-ID: B0014LGC3I
This book is relevant to an audience far greater than the 300+ Benedictine monasteries and their large associated communities in urban and rural Latin America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Indeed, adaptations are being planned for African Muslim communities and for Buddhist communities in Asia. Throughout their history the Benedictines have had a close connection with land and its stewardship. As written in the Preface: "For Benedictines, an environmental audit is not a fad. It is not a social nicety. It is certainly not an option. It is simply a contemporary manifestation of an ancient commitmen
Author: Cory Doctorow
Publisher: Tor Teen
Keywords: brother, little
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-04-29
ISBN-10: 0765319853
ISBN-13: 9780765319852
Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where t
Author: Geoffrey Gilson
Publisher: LULU
Keywords: intimacy, informal
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 26 ?? 2008
eBookDB-ID: ML00260911
A Co-operative Worker-Owner’s Manifesto for improving the business and co-operative performance of Weaver Street Market Co-operative, so that it might better serve its owners, customers and workers.Geoff Gilson is a writer, broadcaster and composer, currently based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.There, he is a Worker-Owner with Weaver Street Market Co-operative, one of the United States’ leading natural food retailing co-operatives.Geoff has a passion for co-operative and other progressive issues, for singing karaoke and playing the drums.You can read the entirety of "Informal Inti
