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Q: Is there anything I need to be cautious about when plugging in my automobile?Q: I’ve seen that there are now roof shingles that are solar panels.While a wide range of solar technologies work in Alaska and other cold climates, photovoltaic roof shingles are still too new and [...]
Category: Alaskan Efforts · Energy Focus Articles · Energy, Renewable · Mechanical Systems · PORTAL
From Peninsula Clarion, Friday, January 29, 2010:
From the Garden of Eden to Noah’s assembling of animals on the ark, there are no shortage of biblical references to caring for the environment, and as society takes steps to become more green, so too are the religiously devout.
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Category: Alaskan Efforts · Sustainable Living
From The Associated Press, Wednesday, January 27, 2010:
A proposal by Gov. Sean Parnell to suspend Alaska’s motor fuels tax may undermine federal transportation funding, U.S. Rep. Don Young said Tuesday.
In a statement, the Republican lawmaker commended Parnell, also a Republican, for trying to relieve Alaskans’ “pain at the pump.” But he added: “By suspending the [...]
Category: Alaskan Efforts · Legislation and Policy · Northern Living
From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Tuesday, January 26, 2010:
A telephone survey aims to find out how residents of the Fairbanks North Star Borough go about heating their homes.
Borough officials want to use the information to help develop a pollution control plan for PM 2.5, tiny particulates known to embed in the lungs and cause health [...]
Category: Alaskan Efforts · Energy, Information · Legislation and Policy · Northern Living · Sustainable Living
From The Associated Press, Tuesday, January 26, 2010:
The U.S. Department of Energy is adding Alaska to its Winds for Schools program.
The national grant program offers hands-on science education studying wind energy to children and college students.
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Category: Alaskan Efforts · Energy, Renewable · Northern Living · Sustainable Living
From Alaska Dispatch, Sunday, January 17, 2010:
An Anchorage lawmaker says he’ll file a bill offering middle class homeowners — strapped for cash and still reeling from high energy costs — a back door into energy efficiency upgrades.
We reported recently on the lack of follow through by thousands of Alaskans who started a home energy efficiency [...]
Category: Alaskan Efforts · Legislation and Policy · PORTAL
Event hosted by Alaska Interfaith Power & Light:
Join Alaska IPL at the Pioneer Park Civic Center on Saturday, January 30th, 2010 from 11 am to 3 pm, for an inspiring community event — One People, One Earth.
This free, family-friendly event will infuse fun, faith, education and charitable opportunities to learn about environmental stewardship and how [...]
Category: Alaskan Efforts · Energy, Information · Events · Northern Living · Recycling · Sustainable Living
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 and [...]
Category: Alaskan Efforts · Northern Living · Recycling
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 rolling across [...]
Category: Alaskan Efforts · Sustainable Living
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 about their traditional [...]
Category: Alaskan Efforts · Northern Living · Sustainable Living