Who We Are

AEPI assists the Army Secretariat in developing policies and strategies to improve or resolve environmental policy issues that may have significant short or long-term impacts on the Army. Since environmental issues continue to emerge as our knowledge and technology develop, AEPI constantly scans for and assesses future environmental challenges and opportunities for the Army.

Our overall objective is to support the triple bottom line of Army sustainability - Mission, Environment, and Community - as outlined in the Army Strategy for the Environment. Our initiatives help the Army to sustain readiness, improve quality of life, strengthen community relationships, and help reduce total costs of ownership by suggesting sound environmental investments for force transformation and installation sustainability.

Army Strategy for the Environment
The United States Army has long recognized that our mission is only accomplished because America entrusts us with its most precious resources - its sons and daughters. It is our obligation to ensure that our Soldiers today - and the Soldiers of the future - have the land, water, and air resources they need to train; a healthy environment in which to live; and the support of local communities and the American people... read more

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Army Public Involvement Toolbox
The Army has launched a Web site to help strengthen partnerships between the Army and the communities around its installations and ranges by providing practical tools, methods, examples, and information related to public involvement... read more

Defense ESOH Network & Information Exchange (DENIX)
DENIX includes a calendar with a comprehensive list of key Environmental events for 2008... read more

Army Sustainability Report 2007
In June 2007, Army Headquarters received one of three White House Closing the Circle “Sowing the Seeds of Change” Awards from the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive for the future vision established and implemented through our sustainability strategy—The Army Strategy for the Environment (ASE): Sustain the Mission, Secure the Future.1 Through this strategy, released in 2004, Army leadership challenged all Army personnel to incorporate our ‘triple bottom line’ (TBL) of Mission, Environment, and Community into all of its plans, processes and actions. the principles laid out in the Strategy provide a compass, pointing to a true
north, which will continue to guide us well into the 21st Century as we navigate the terrain toward sustainability…......read more (publication)….. read more (brochure)(PDF)

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Green Warrior: Army Environmental Considerations for Contingency Operations from Planning Through Post Conflict
A recently released AEPI-sponsored RAND report finds that environmental issues can play a pivotal role in U.S. Army contingency operations; and by effectively managing environmental issues during deployments, Army units and commanders can gain tactical and strategic advantage that can extend from combat into the post-conflict phase of operations.....read more (PDF)

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Sustain the Mission Project: Energy and Water Costing Methodology and Decision Support Tool
This report discusses the efforts conducted under "Sustain the Mission Project 2" (SMP-2). The purpose of the SMP-2 is further develop and expand the SMP energy and water costing methodology; update SMP-generated life-cycle energy and water cost factors for contingency operations and training; design and test a user-friendly decision support tool for cost-benefit analysis of energy and water investments; and work with appropriate Army agencies to apply the SMP cost-benefit tool to energy and water technologies considered by the Army for further development and fielding.....read more (PDF)

The Botswana Defense Force in the Struggle for an African Environment
This is the story of an African success. It describes how Botswana, an obscure nation in southern Africa, employs its capable, professional army to secure its wildlife resources - a precious heritage of all mankind. This narrative speaks well for a government and an army on a continent where officials and soldiers are widely held in disrepute....read more (PDF)

PERSPECTIVE - Renewable Energy Systems: Viable Options for Contingency Operations - Gordon D. Kuntz
The strategic importance of the United States having an unimpeded source of energy is becoming ever more crucial. The significance of energy and the need for greater energy responsibility by the US have been identified in several State-of-the-Union Addresses. President Bush's 2006 State-of-the-Union Address stated that "America is addicted to oil" and encouraged federal agencies to lead the way in developing more reliable alternative energy programs....read more (PDF) (Cover PDF)

Today's Choices, Tomorrow's Army - What's Your Bootprint? Fostering A Sustainability Ethic in the Army.
Sustainability connects our activities today to those of tomorrow. Everything that we do as an Army impacts the availability of resources we will have in the future. These resources - whether financial, human capital, or land, air, water and energy - are vital to the ability of our Soldiers of the future to train, as well as to our ability to provide our Army Families the quality of life they deserve.... read more (note: article begins on page 69)

Workshops: Using Sustainability to Build Stability in Africa.
The purpose of these workshops is to identify and discuss the factors that are currently shaping the strategic environment in Africa and to look at how Army capabilities can impact on those factors. Bringing together regional specialists, experts in the areas of environmental, social and financial sustainability and the Army planners, the sessions will foster a better understanding of the strategic environment, regionally unique issues, Army capabilities and goals...read more

Foresight, July 2007: Climate Change and Army Sustainability.
Climate change is widely accepted by the world's scientific community. Numerous aspects of climate change remain under debate, but the basic premise - that the planet is warming due to increases in greenhouse gases in the planet's atmosphere - is widely supported...read this series (PDF)

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Pulitzer Prize Winner Says 'Green' is Good for the Nation
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Thomas L. Friedman believes the "greening" of America can help the nation weather the war in Iraq, restore its natural place in the world order and greatly reduce international terrorism's financial resources. Speaking at the most recent in a series of lectures on resource sustainability hosted by the Army Environmental Policy Institute, Mr. Friedman outlined the strategic implications of America's dependence on foreign oil and addressed what he called "an inconvenient truth" about the war on terrorism....read more