Sustainable North

From Alaska Dispatch, Tuesday, October 27, 2009: According to a Business Wire press release (via Reuters), a residential wind turbine installed by Helix Wind Corp. in Dutch Harbor withstood its first major winter storm. The storm brought winds in excess of 80 mph, and the turbine worked perfectly. One of its owners, Joshua Williams, said [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Monday, October 26, 2009: The roots of downtown’s largest plant tunnel under much of the city, thick steel pipes twisting beneath intersections and sidewalks on their way toward the city’s biggest buildings. Instead of absorbing water, however, these roots deliver it, and are a major unseen space heating supplier. Private [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Monday, October 26, 2009: Some of the salad that University of Alaska Fairbanks students munch on this winter will have a surprising birthplace — just a few hundred yards away from the Lola Tilly Commons. The salad greens, tomatoes, peppers and other produce will be grown at the lower campus [...]

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EIA has released 12 new State Rankings pages that display charts and maps ordered by data value. The rankings cover energy production, consumption, and price, as well as carbon dioxide emissions from electric power plants, as follows: Total Energy Production Crude Oil Production Natural Gas Marketed Production Coal Production Total Net Electricity Generation Carbon Dioxide [...]

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From NPR, Thursday, October 22, 2009: Energy Stars are those blue stickers that are supposed to help you choose the most energy-efficient appliances, TVs and other power-hungry gadgets. More than one-third of Americans use them to pick products, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, which runs the program with the Energy Department. The government says [...]

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Cooperative Extension Service housing and energy specialist Rich Seifert  will teach his Cold Climate Homebuilding Techniques workshop Saturday, Oct. 24th in Schaible Auditorium on the UAF campus. The free workshop will run from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and includes a manual and a CD. The workshop will focus on insulating homes and will cover options for [...]

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From the Anchorage Daily News on Friday, October 16, 2009: The Alaska Housing Finance Corp. is preparing to divvy out Alaska’s comparatively small share of $300 million in federal stimulus money to cover rebates on energy-efficient appliances.Because Alaska got only about a dollar per person — $658,000 — and officials wanted to make it count, AHFC’s proposal [...]

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