Sustainable North

From The Tundra Drums, Friday, August 20, 2010:
If Alaskans aren’t at a crossroads politically, we’re drawing close. Most all candidates running for statewide offices this year have given due time to talk about the state’s energy future, since we’ve been living off of our energy past for so long and change is coming. A dwindling [...]

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From The New York Times, Friday, August 13, 2010:
The recession is lingering, and so is the unspent stimulus money that was meant to help end it.
The latest example is the $3.2 billion that Congress voted in February 2009 as part of an economic stimulus package to simultaneously provide jobs and improve energy efficiency through block [...]

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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: Many people are fixing their old home and getting a rebate from the state. Is there still rebate money available for building a [...]

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From The New York Times, Tuesday, August 10, 2010:
Congress focuses on whether the Environmental Protection Agency should go where no federal regulators have gone before and regulate greenhouse gases. But the agency did something more prosaic on Monday, albeit something it has not done effectively for the last 15 years or so: it put more [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Monday, August 2, 2010:

The borough began taking applications last week for its wood stove repair and replacement program.
“The program is up and operational,” air quality director Glenn Miller said.
Applications are available at the borough air quality office on Peger Road.
The program is still evolving, and applications won’t be available on [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Monday, August 2, 2010:

The Borough Clerk last week compiled ballot language for the home heating initiative.
Fairbanks North Star Borough voters on Oct. 5 will be asked to vote yes or no on the following statement: “The borough shall not ban, prohibit, or fine residents for the use of home heating [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Friday, July 30, 2010:

The Borough Assembly passed a resolution approving the port authority’s plan to purchase Fairbanks Natural Gas LLC and launch a natural gas trucking operation.
A separate measure calling for a public vote on the plan narrowly failed.
The $250 million project now goes before the Regulatory Commission of Alaska.
“People [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Tuesday, July 13, 2010:

The number of people who heat with wood in the Fairbanks North Star Borough is slowly rising, a new study shows.
Researchers called 300 area households last winter and asked a series of questions, mostly regarding home heating habits.
They found the number of borough households using wood heat [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News Miner, Saturday, July 10, 2010:

Assemblyman Guy Sattley has drafted an ordinance requiring a public vote on the plan to truck liquefied natural gas to Fairbanks, but Borough Mayor Luke Hopkins said delaying the $250 million project is risky.
“If we stretch this timeline out,” Hopkins said Thursday at a Borough Assembly [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Saturday, July 10, 2010:

A ballot group succeeded in gaining the signatures to put a question to the Fairbanks area voters that, if approved, would reverse new air pollution regulations.
A Fairbanks North Star Borough canvassing board approved the signatures last week.
The question about whether the borough should be allowed to regulate [...]

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