Monday 9 May 2011

Why it makes sense for the military to go green

A current article in the Harvard Business Review struck a chord with me.  Essentially the US Navy and US Marine Corps believe that going green can save lives and money:


http://blogs.hbr.org/winston/2011/05/the-navy-strike-on-energy-use.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness+%28HBR.org%29

Certainly one of the major challenges for me when I was in Afghanistan and in command of 7 different locations ,in an area with an extremely high threat from Improvised Explosive Devices, was how to mange the resupply of these locations.  Any thing that could be done to reduce the logistical burden would make a significant difference and reduce the threat faced during a resupply mission.

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