Sustainable North

From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Wednesday, June 23, 2010: A wind farm near Healy would likely produce cheaper power than the wholesale prices Golden Valley Electric Association pays, Kate Lamal, a vice president for the utility, said Tuesday.  Lamal said that if projections hold true, that would prevent customer rates from increasing if the utility [...]

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From Mother Earth News: For years, I dreamed of building my own home using natural materials. But time passed, and I started to think about what I could do with the house I actually owned and lived in. In the end, I carried a shovel and some hand tools into the backyard of my vinyl-sided [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Tuesday, June 22, 2010: The Alaska Center for Energy and Power will host a wind power discussion at 6 p.m. tonight at The Blue Loon. “Wind Powering Alaska” will discuss the potential for turning Alaska’s wind into energy. Kate Lamal from Golden Valley Electric Association will talk about plans to [...]

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From The New York Times, Thursday, June 17, 2010: WITH each new model introduction, automakers take pains to point out how much they have done to reduce their vehicles’ negative effects on the environment. A rundown of the advances can involve almost every aspect of the car’s design and production: carbon dioxide output has been [...]

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From The Associated Press, Friday, June 18, 2010: The Anchorage area’s private trash hauler, Alaska Waste, is picking up used food-frying oil and has started turning it into biodiesel to power its trucks. The company showed off its new $3 million plant Thursday in south Anchorage where it turned out its first batch of biodiesel [...]

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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 have a concrete foundation. I heard insulating your foundation can save heat. How can I do that? Concrete is [...]

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The Cold Climate Housing Research Center is hosting tours of its green roof on Thursdays at 1:30 p.m. Visitors taking the tour will learn about green infrastructure and what Fairbanks-area homeowners can do to reduce rainwater and pollutant runoff from their property. Learn more: CCHRC’s Green Infrastructure Project

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From The Alaska Housing Fincance Corporation, Monday, June 14, 2010: Alaskans with disabilities have ample opportunity to qualify for the special appliance rebate program being funded by a $658,000 grant from the federal Department of Energy and administered statewide by Alaska Housing Finance Corporation. The federal program, designed to encourage Americans to use energy-efficient appliances, [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, June 13, 2010: A group trying to overturn new wood stove regulations has until June 24 to gather 2,379 qualified signatures to put a question before the Fairbanks North Star Borough voters on Oct. 5. “We are well under way,” said Rick VanderKolk, treasurer of the North Star Landowners, [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, June 13, 2010: Car after car pulled up to a line of bins sitting in a parking lot at a local homeless shelter. Some bins held paper. Some cardboard. Others aluminum. It was Saturday, the busiest day of the week at the Fairbanks Rescue Mission Recycling Center. But it [...]

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