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...many Western nations. Frustrated by the vulnerability of long supply lines in recent conflicts - and aware that in an end-game global war the countries holding the bulk of the world's oil and gas may not prove to be allies - Western militaries are in search of new alternative fuel sources for their tanks, vehicles, planes and ships. (See pictures...
...that message has been passed on to industry and research institutions. A recent DOD acquisition directive requires the military to consider the "fuel burdens" of new technology, while a special office inside the DOD monitors alternative energy efforts at U.S.-based universities and institutions with an eye to awarding funding. DARPA was recently given $100 million for a research project into alternative fuels. (See TIME's special report on the environment...
...Green tech will gain a growing portion of the U.S. military's $104 billion procurement budget in the coming years, according to DOD spokesman Chris Isleib. "It's beyond a high priority for us," he says. "In the Iraq theater, such a high percentage of our convoys were fuel convoys. Our reliance on these [fuel] convoys was putting our soldiers' lives at risk. We realized that the need for alternative fuels was urgent. We needed to mobilize...
...from scratch, rethinking every component to minimize cost and weight without sacrificing basic performance, comfort and style. As battered carmakers search for new business models to adapt to shifting, shrinking consumer demand, the Nano may point the way to the future - one that will likely revolve around smaller, more fuel-efficient and more cheaply produced vehicles. (See pictures of the Nano...
...clothing chain launched an in-house environmental campaign called Plan A - "because there is no Plan B for the planet," explains Mark Barry, the company's sustainable-development manager. Scrapping traditional charitable donations, Marks & Spencer budgeted $215 million for a five-year program that included cutting the company's fuel and electricity use, charging customers for plastic bags and sourcing merchandise from green factories and farms. Barry says Plan A is so far paying for itself because it has lowered the company's energy spending and other costs...