Sustainable North

BY: CCHRC Staff Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner October 16th, 2008, Section A3 Last week in this column we discussed the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC) Energy Rebate program, created late last spring to help homeowners make their homes more energy efficient. This week, we’ll discuss how to make the right decisions about your home, [...]

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Title: Ferguson G125BE Blueflame Boiler Certification Location: Associated General Contractors, 3750 Bonita Street, Fairbanks Description: FOR CERTIFIED INSTALLERS ONLY. Electric Boiler (sizing and piping controls and wiring); G125BE System (introduction and installation); Logamatic Control Troubleshooting, Servicing, Product Review. Call 907.456.1234 for information and reservations. Date: 2008-10-22

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From the New York Times on Wednesday, October 15, 2008:   OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH food is changing more rapidly than ever, and like many others, I’ve watched in awe. As a food journalist and author for 30 years, my perspective has been unusual: I’ve worked with influential people in the field while remaining in frequent contact [...]

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From the New York Times on Wednesday, October 15, 2008: While the race to develop offshore wind energy is heating up in the Northeast, things have hit a few speed bumps in the waters off Texas — already the nation’s leader in on-land wind power production. Wind Energy Systems Technology (W.E.S.T.), a company that holds all five [...]

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From the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday, October 14, 2008: NEW YORK—In what are likely to be blueprints for a national effort to fight climate change, clusters of states on the East and West Coasts and in the Midwest are setting up marketplaces for electric utilities and other companies to buy and sell credits to emit [...]

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From the New York Times on Thursday, October 9, 2008: Dear Mr. President-Elect, It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is one you barely mentioned during the campaign: food. Food policy is not something American presidents have had to give much [...]

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From treehugger.com, posted on Sunday, October 5, 2008: In a small town in Far West Texas, Clyde Curry has been busy refining and perfecting his papercrete mixture. Papercrete is mostly recycled paper and his new formula even gives an afterlife to styrofoam as well. Clyde mixes this waste into paste and then makes bricks. Lots of them! [...]

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BY: Ilya Benesch, Building Educator at CCHRC Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner October 9th, 2008, Section A3 In Fairbanks, CCHRC has been funded by AHFC to create the PORTAL (Portal On Retrofits Training And Loans) to help make the statewide weatherization and rebate programs more accessible to the public. The PORTAL office maintains and updates [...]

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From the Wall Street Journal on Monday, October 6, 2008, an estimation of the carbon footprint of six everyday items – cars, shoes, laundry detergent, clothing, milk and beer: So, what are the carbon footprints of some of the common products we use? How are they calculated? And what surprises do they hold? What follows is [...]

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On Tuesday, October 7, 2008, the Representatives John Dingell (D-Mi.) and Rick Boucher (D-Va.) introduced draft legislation that would reduce U.S.-produced greenhouse gases 80% by 2050. The draft legislation, which was unveiled Tuesday and will be refined in coming months for introduction next year, would begin slowly, capping emissions of heat-trapping gases released by transportation [...]

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