Vol. 69 No. 17 April 29, 2011 Word of the month: Heritage Net Zero Army IDs Carson Public Affairs Office Fort Carson has been designated as one of two Army “Net Zero” installations. Katherine Hammack, assistant secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment, made the announcement at the Installation Management Symposium in San Antonio April 19. The categories considered for installation Net Zero status were energy, water and waste. “Because of the high quality and capability of the installations, we couldn’t narrow it down to five (installations) in each category and one for overall. We ended up narrowing it down to six in each category and two overall. The two overall installations are Fort Carson, Colo., and Fort Bliss, Texas,” said Hammack in a media roundtable held in conjunction with the symposium. Fort Carson self-nominated to become a Net Zero installation in March to challenge its already robust energy, water and waste sustainability goals and to advance the resource-conscious posture of today’s Army. “We’ve already got one of the largest solar arrays, which has been reducing our energy consumption, particularly for housing,” said Brig. Gen. James H. Doty, acting senior commander, 4th Infantry Division and Fort Carson, in the media roundtable. “We also have a qualified recycling program that we will endeavor to start looking at using gray water for reuse on the golf course and some other things. In the (combat aviation brigade) buildings, we’re going to try to make every one of those buildings effectively Net Zero when they are constructed.” The Net Zero energy designation will require Fort Carson to produce as much energy on site as it uses. This will require aggressive conservation and efficiency efforts, including finding ways to capture and use waste energy and pursuing more renewable energy initiatives. “With this focus toward Net Zero it really steps up the challenges to all of the Army garrisons and provides them with some blueprints of how you can increase your Photo by Spc. Samantha B. Koss energy conservation efforts and how you can improve Tower of fun your energy use intensity,” Hammack said. According to Hammack, the Army Net Zero approach is Eliza Elekes, 8, and Devin Almodovar, 11, climb to the top of the Alpine Tower during the Easter egg wall comprised of five interrelated steps: reduction, repurpose, crawl April 21. After reaching the top of the 25-foot tower, children rappelled back down to claim their recycling and composting, energy recovery and disposal. Each prize, a bag of candy. The wall crawl is one of many activities the Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation sponsored in April to observe the Month of the Military Child. See Net Zero on Page 4 II Military Community Feature NN SS II DD EE Page 5 Page 11 Pages 20-21 2 MOUNTAINEER — April 29, 2011 MOUNTAINEER D6 sends Commanding General: Maj. Gen. David G. Perkins Garrison Commander: ASAP professionals help heroes heal Col. Robert F. McLaughlin Fort Carson Public Affairs Officer: by Lt. Gen. Rick Lynch of services, provide more Dee McNutt Commander, Installation Management Command intensive treatment over Chief, Print and Web Communications: longer periods of time Rick Emert In this unprecedented era of persistent conflict, the and explore alternative Editor: Devin Fisher risk for substance abuse among our Soldiers and their prevention and treatment Staff Writers: Andrea Sutherland Families has never been greater. As I have often stated, the techniques. 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