Sustainable North

BY Adam Wasch, Energy Outreach Consultant at CCHRC Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner November 27th, 2008, Section A3 My shower time is a reprieve from the winter doldrums. I’m a better person for it; I’m more functional and less likely to stay in bed groaning for, say, three or four months. The problem is that [...]

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From the Anchorage Daily News on November 2, 2008: Want to buy some hot water? A lot of hot water? Maybe even enough to supply Anchorage with cheap, clean, reliable geothermal energy for years to come? That’s essentially the proposition Alaska land managers floated recently while trying to lease geothermal rights to state land on [...]

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From the New York Times “By Design” blog, on Friday, November 21, 2008: For a couple of months there, it was sort of exciting to witness how dramatically higher oil prices were affecting human behavior. Ridership of public transit was up, homeowners were swapping exurban houses for urban condos, S.U.V. sales were down, people were [...]

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From www.change.gov, retrieved on Thursday, November 20, 2008: The energy challenges our country faces are severe and have gone unaddressed for far too long. Our addiction to foreign oil doesn’t just undermine our national security and wreak havoc on our environment — it cripples our economy and strains the budgets of working families all across [...]

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From the New York Times, Thursday, November 20, 2008: “To qualify for consideration as a nominee, a vehicle must exhibit characteristics that substantially raise the bar in environmental performance and be in production by Jan. 1 of the award year,” said the guidelines on the Green Car Journal Web site. “Plus, a potential nominee must [...]

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BY Adam Wasch, Energy Outreach Consultant at CCHRC Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner November 20th, 2008, Section A3 Did you spend your $1,200 state energy assistance check on gas and groceries? Don’t despair! There is still money available to help make your home more energy efficient or take the leap to solar energy. And, from [...]

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BY Adam Wasch, Energy Outreach Consultant at CCHRC Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner November 13th, 2008, Section A3 This is the third of a series of columns exploring how solar energy can be used at home to reduce your energy costs. A central feature of passive solar design, windows, powerfully affect how your home feels [...]

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From the website “Solar House, Solar Home,” retrieved on 11/11/08: Just after January 1, 2000, I left the 20th Century and I haven’t been back since. If your attention is rooted in the 21st Century, you only need your eyes and ears to understand that energy efficiency and sustainability will be the unfolding story of [...]

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From Builder 2008, on October 21, 2008: Efforts to make buildings more energy-efficient will create millions of new jobs, researchers surmised, and will also have a greening effect on the job responsibilities of an estimated 111 million people worldwide who already work in construction. High-performance projects and upgrades could generate up to 3.5 million additional green [...]

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From the New York Times, on Friday, November 7, 2008: Last month, Senator Barack Obama became — as far as we know — the first nominee to urge Americans to “weatherize your home” in a presidential debate. With winter coming and Mr. Obama headed to the White House, it may be a good time to [...]

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