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April 19, 2013
Vol. 30. No. 15
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Earth Day 2013: The Face of Climate Change making strides towards SECNAV’s 50% renewable goal. The PV array and the solar hot water thermal system installed on the roof of the Midtown building, both located at NAS 1 are tangible examples. Implementing and investigating renewable technologies projects continues to be a focus for Sigonella and in the near future more renewable projects are intended to be completed. Additionally, simple behavioral changes and small adjustments to our thought process by taking responsibility for our part can be affected by awareness and action campaigns. The biggest contributor of promoting awareness to conserve resources comes from you. NAS Sigonella Energy Office receives weekly emails/calls from the building energy monitors who provide great ideas, often very economical, to reduce the energy and water usage. Moreover everybody can adopt an attitude that saves energy: switch off the Catania, Sicily, (Sept. 2012) - Volunteers from Naval Air Station (NAS) Sigonella worked alongside Italian volunteers to clean a strip of the Catania coastline (Lungomare) as lights if you don’t need them, part of an ongoing Community Relations (COMREL) project. The cleanup was hosted by the Catania Province Chairman for Environment and was aimed at raising awareness report any water leaking, set the of sea conservation and protection of marine wildlife. Sigonella Sailors and Airmen carry out clean-up COMRELs of beaches, parks, public gardens and urban areas to show temperature control to 70° F in community support and friendship to the host nation. (Photo by Orietta Scardino) winter time and not less then 78° F in summer time. These simple by Antonino Piluso actions can be adopted both in the Public Works Department office and at home. They will not n April 22, 2013, more than not have a voice, some of which include awareness and reverse the trends. Every only result in a utility bill savings but also one billion people around the polar bear in the melting arctic, the person who does his or her part to reduce will go a long way to conserving the Earth’s the world will take part in tiger in India’s threatened mangrove the effects is also a “Face of Climate Change”: resources by saving energy and reducing the 43rd anniversary of Earth forests, the Right Whale in plankton- the entrepreneurs who see opportunity in the effects of climate change. We all have the opportunity to be part Day. From Beijing to Cairo, Melbourne to poor parts of the warming North Atlantic, creating a greener economy, the activists London, Rio to Johannesburg, New Delhi and the orangutan in Indonesian forests who organize community awareness and of the solution, and I challenge you to be to New York, communities everywhere segmented by more frequent bushfires and action campaigns, the engineers who one of the many faces leading the way will voice their concerns for the planet, droughts. These faces of climate change design the clean technology of the future, to reverse the negative effects of climate and take action to protect it. This year the are multiplying every day, as the global the public servants who fight for climate change. Earth Day in Italy: Italy will participate change laws and for mitigation efforts, and goal is to show to the world the “Face of effects continue to be uncovered. For many, climate change can often the ordinary people who commit to living in the 43rd edition of the World Earth Day Climate Change”. All of us are called to act on April 22 also. A concert is scheduled seem remote and hazy – a vague and sustainably. boldly together, to save our planet. The Navy is doing its part. The Secretary with the FAO (a United Nations group) Climate change has many faces: a man complex problem far off in the distance in the Maldives worried about relocating that our grandchildren may have to of the Navy (SECNAV) has committed to where Fiorella Mannoia and Khaled will his family as sea levels rise, a farmer in solve. But that’s only because they’re still a more environmentally sustainable Navy. sing for the first time together. The concert Kansas struggles to make ends meet as fortunate enough to be insulated from its The SECNAV goal is to achieve 50% of will take place in Assago Milan, Teatro della a prolonged drought ravages the crops, mounting consequences. Climate change the shore based energy requirements Luna, and proceeds of the ticket sales will a fisherman on the Niger River whose has very real effects on people, animals, from renewable sources by 2020. DON is be devoted entirely to support the projects nets often come up empty, a child in New and the ecosystems and natural resources implementing policy, providing guidance, of green Earth Day Italy. The concert will Jersey who lost her home to a super-storm, on which we all depend. Left unchecked, and investing in programs to develop stream live at www.earthdayitalia.org and green technologies and to further this will air on Sky One and Sky One HD on a woman in Bangladesh who can’t get fresh they’ll spread like wildfire. Fortunately, the other faces of climate renewable energy commitment. Naval the evening of 22 April at 10:24 a.m. and water due to more frequent flooding and cyclones, and they’re not the only ones. change are also multiplying daily as Air Station (NAS) Sigonella is also doing again on Tuesday, April 23 at 4:30 p.m. and Climate changes effect even those that do more people join together to further the its part by embracing these initiatives and Friday, April 26 at midnight.
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put ones thought into action is the most difficult thing in the world." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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