The Department of Defense has started up a new program called the Military Installation Sustainability Program. The plan is to make the United State's infrastructures more efficient and adjust military bases to the changing environment. They plan to focus on land use and using clean energy.
The program is also looking into keeping military bases and communities more separated. Often cities will grow around a military base because of all the people in a base it brings a need for other jobs surrounding it, but the government would like to start setting up zones that communities can't expand out into around bases to prevent residents from pollution from aircrafts and things like that.
Lastly they are looking into setting up more protection for land conservation. The Department of Defense wants to allocate resources to states to use to preserve open space and farmland.
I thought this was very cool when I came across this in some research. Right now the three "big topics" of our generation is the war overseas, the environment, and the economy. The Department of Defense is in a way taking on all of these right here, making military bases more efficient for the environment and economically efficient too.
It's gonna be a hard road for the military. They are the largest user of petroleum products in the U.S., beating out even the consumption of medium-sized countries.
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