Sustainable North

From eartheasy.com:
The World War II home front was the most important and broadly participatory green experiment in U.S. history. Is it a model we should use today?Does this generation of Americans have the “right stuff” to meet the epic challenges of sustaining life on a rapidly warming planet? Sure, the mainstream media are full of [...]

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From Mother Earth News:
Bamboo flooring is increasingly popular as a green building material. Stalks can be harvested sustainably, and bamboo floors are as tough as they are beautiful.
Bamboo flooring is constructed in two basic ways. Solid bamboo flooring is composed entirely of layers of bamboo. Engineered bamboo flooring consists of a top layer of bamboo [...]

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From The Associated Press, Sunday, June 27, 2010:

New transmission lines are critical to developing the alternative electricity production needed to meet demand in the coming years, governors of states in the West said Monday.

The need for new energy development and dangers of climate change topped the agenda at the annual meeting of the Western Governors [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Saturday, June 26, 2010:

A local group opposed to a new borough ordinance that regulates the sale, installation and use of wood and coal stoves, has gathered enough signatures to challenge the ordinance.
North Star Landowners, sponsors of The Home Heating Protection Act, gathered more than 3,000 signatures for the petition, according [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, June 27, 2010:

A possible remedy to rural Alaska’s enormous road construction costs might be sitting in a grimy plastic bin at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Billy Connor sifted through the bin’s contents with his hand, digging through material that looks like it came from a badly abused sandbox. There [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, June 27, 2010:

Eighty narrow strips of solar cells in the pattern of a giant xylophone blinked in the bright Fairbanks sunshine this week. The first solar laminate wall in Alaska covers the south side of the school district’s facility building downtown.
Larry Morris pointed to a dip in a graph [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Monday, June 28, 2010:

Fairbanks puts almost all its paper, glass and plastic in the trash. Karl Monetti dares you to come up alternatives — convince him and six other commissioners that you can recycle at a sustained level, and public managers might give you the green light. Help local government [...]

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From The New York Times, Friday, June 25, 2010:
A long-running joke with my nieces, Allison and Lindsay, is that a mistake involving caribou is a “caribou-bou.”  Our caribou-bou is now clear.  We missed the massive migrations of the Western caribou herd in Alaska by two days. We’ve seen recent tracks everywhere, as well as those [...]

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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: Are there any regulations I need to know about before I put up a wind tower, or can I put one up anywhere?
Wind [...]

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From The Associated Press, Thursday, June 23, 2010:

Renewable energy development in Alaska is getting about half the funding lawmakers had approved after Gov. Sean Parnell decided to veto $25 million for projects he said can still be considered.

The Legislature had approved $50 million for the Alaska Renewable Energy Grant Fund, but Parnell cut it in [...]

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