Sustainable North

From The Daily Green: Use these 25 indoor air quality tips from the American Lung Association to help reduce the risk factors for asthma and other lung illness in your home. Click here to read more.

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From Alaska Dispatch, Saturday, January 16, 2010: While glass recycling is a thing of the past in Anchorage, construction and demolition recycling is a new addition. In November Central Recycling Services opened a multimillion dollar plant to take scrap metal, rebar, contrete, shingles, scrap lumber, Sheetrock, carpet and other materials and turn them into concrete [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Tuesday, January 19, 2010: The University Police Department is about to acquire a new high-tech gadget that’s more notable for what it won’t do than what it will. The modified 2002 Suzuki Eiger four-wheeler won’t use any gasoline. It won’t create any emissions. And except for the sound of tires [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Tuesday, January 19, 2010: Increasing sunlight has helped improve particulate pollution in Fairbanks, according to borough air quality specialist Jim Conner. The average particulate pollution level in Fairbanks on Monday was 40 micrograms per cubic meter of air, making the air unhealthy for sensitive groups, Conner said. Earlier this month, [...]

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From The Associated Press, Friday, January 15, 2010: The Federal Subsistence Board has approved research to look for possible links between climate change and fishing patterns in three regions of Alaska. The projects will take three to four years and cost $930,000, according to the Office of Subsistence Management. Researchers will talk to village households [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, January 17, 2010: The tiny town of Pinehurst, Idaho, sits in a valley and needed to do something about the pollution being caused by smoke from wood stoves. So the federal government helped Pinehurst residents buy cleaner-burning wood stoves. The state government asked people to hold back voluntarily on [...]

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From The Associated Press, Wednesday, January 13, 2010: On winter days when the air is still and Fairbanks area residents fire up their wood stoves and outdoor boilers, Alaska’s second largest city becomes entombed in a shroud of pollution. The problem is due in part to wood stoves and outdoor boilers that belch out small [...]

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ASK A BUILDER By CCHRC Staff The “Ask a Builder” series is dedicated to answering some of the many questions Fairbanks residents have about building, energy and the many other parts of home life. Q: My upstairs bathroom roof vent keeps plugging with ice. This causes a sewer smell in the bathroom. I have to [...]

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The Science for Alaska Lecture Series presents: New Energy for Alaska Communites Gwen Holdmann, Director of the Alaska Center for Energy and Power for the University of Alaska 7:00 pm, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 in the Westmark Gold Room, Fairbanks Click here for more information.

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From Alaska Dispatch, Wednesday, December 23, 2009: Massive initial interest in a state program to help people make their homes more energy efficient could be tapering off, even as some areas of the state face the likelihood of increased home heating costs in coming years. As of Dec. 16, nearly 19,000 Alaskans have started the [...]

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