Sustainable North

From The Associated Press, Wednesday, August 25, 2010;
Sales of new homes dropped sharply last month to the slowest pace on record, the latest sign that the economic recovery is fading.The Commerce Department said Wednesday that new home sales fell 12.4 percent in July from a month earlier to a seasonally adjusted annual sales pace of [...]

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From The Daily Green:

Back-to-school time is right around the corner. Soon you’ll be bombarded with so many advertisements for notebooks, planners, pens and other supplies, it will be hard to avoid buying products – unfortunately, many of these items take a toll on the environment. So rather than running from store to store trying to [...]

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From The Associated Press, Thursday, July 22, 2o1o:

Alaska Airlines says it’s flown another test flight of landing procedures at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport that can save fuel, reduce noise and cut emissions by a third.
The procedures, already used in Alaska and at several Lower 48 airports, use satellite technology to guide a plane to a landing. [...]

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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 escalation of [...]

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From Crunchy Chicken: Putting the mental in environmental:
If you are like me, you’ve been watching the Olympic Games and enjoying the competition. I always look forward to the games, winter or summer, because it’s inspiring to see how dedicated these athletes are to their sports.
One thing to think about, anytime there are large events like [...]

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From The New York Times, Thursday, January 21, 2010:
The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, new surface temperature figures released Thursday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration show.
The agency also found that 2009 was the second warmest year since 1880, when modern temperature measurement began. The warmest year was 2005. The [...]

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From the New York Times, Friday, December 25, 2009;
Some of the greenest technologies of the age, from electric cars to efficient light bulbs to very large wind turbines, are made possible by an unusual group of elements called rare earths. The world’s dependence on these substances is rising fast.
Just one problem: These elements come almost [...]

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From The Christian Science Monitor, Thursday, December 3, 2009:
When e-mails of climate scientists hacked from a British University were published online, the reverberations were heard around the world.
Skeptics of human-caused climate change were elated: Several of the e-mails could be read to indicate that data was inaccurate or fudged, and some seemed to imply collusion about who [...]

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From The New York Times, Wednesday, November 18, 2009:
The Earth’s oceans, which have absorbed carbon dioxide from fuel emissions since the dawn of the industrial era, have recently grown less efficient at sopping it up, new research suggests.
Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels began soaring in the 1950s, and oceans largely kept up, scientists [...]

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From Business Week, Wednesday, November 18, 2009:
New housing starts dropped 10.6% in October compared with September, to a seasonally adjusted rate of 529,000, the Commerce Dept.reported on Nov. 18. The number, which was lower than analyst estimates, is a seven-month low.
October housing starts were down 30.7% year-over-year.
Single-family housing starts were off 6.8% in October, to [...]

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