Sustainable North

From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: The Fairbanks North Star Borough is hosting two air quality open houses this week to discuss a proposal to curb air pollution, a borough announcement said. The first open house takes place today at West Valley High School Performing Arts Center. The second open house is Wednesday in the Weller [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, March 16, 2010: A University of Alaska Fairbanks professor is one of about 250 members of the U.S. National Academy of Science who have signed a well-publicized letter supporting climate-change science. The letter, published in the May 6 issue of the journal Science, defends climate science against “the recent [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Monday, May 17, 2010: The school of the future is a net-zero-energy building with three triangular wings, a solar array, green roof, spherical dome and astronomy aqua-tower, all straddling a river. And it resides in Fairbanks. SubZero Middle School is a futuristic model designed by 10 students from Barnette Magnet [...]

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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: I am going to dig up my foundation this summer so I can put on outside foam insulation. Do I [...]

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Mayors Luke Hopkins, Terry Strle and Doug Isaacson have signed a proclamation declaring May 17th -21st BIKE TO WORK WEEK in the Fairbanks North Star Borough! Bike to Work Week is a national event intended to incentivize biking as an alternative form of commute that burns calories rather than gas. The week’s events, prizes and local support [...]

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From The Homer Tribune, Saturday, May 8, 2010: The girls responsible for changing things around ecologically get to see the fruits of their work daily when they eat lunch at Homer Middle School. Blue trays – plastic, reusable and eco-friendly – are now utilized most days over the plastic foam models that used to be [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, May 9, 2010: Electric utility managers say it’s a federal clean energy program that has them poised to build a big wind farm near Healy. The program would repay more than two-thirds of construction costs for a $93 million Eva Creek farm, Golden Valley Electric Association president Brian Newton [...]

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From eBay Green Team: Like many dutiful husbands, my husband sees to it that I get flowers delivered to me on Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day. I love how the smell of the flowers fills the house and brightens my dining room table. While the flowers themselves only last a week or two before wilting [...]

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Ask a Builder By CCHRC Staff A 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: I’m looking at buying new windows. What do you recommend? In the case of windows, look for a low [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Wednesday, May 5, 2010: About 2,000 people have said they will participate in the United Way of the Tanana Valley’s annual Cleanup Day, but organizers are hoping thousands more will sign up by Saturday. On average, 5,000 people volunteer to take to the streets and surrounding areas of Fairbanks to [...]

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