Sustainable North

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 understand it is important to get fresh air into my house, but exchanging air in my home means the [...]

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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: Recently I read the News-Miner story about the heat pump being installed at Weller Elementary School. Are there different ways [...]

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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: What are my options for eco-friendly decking? In today’s market, the selection of decking materials is vast and can be [...]

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ASK A BUILDER By CCHRC Staff The “Ask a Builder” series is dedicated to answering questions Fairbanks residents have about building, energy and the many other parts of home life. Q: What is the relationship between boilers and combustion air? Any appliance that expels air must have its own air supply or one appliance could [...]

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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 had an energy rating performed on my home, and it said my house does not have enough ventilation air [...]

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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 am going to dig up my foundation this summer so I can put on outside foam insulation. Do I [...]

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By CCHRC Staff home life. ASK A BUILDER 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 [...]

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From npr.org on Monday, June 8, 2009: Susan Carpenter breaks California state plumbing code three times a week. Her accomplice is her washing machine. Rinse water from washing machines usually goes into the sewer — so what if you could recycle it? That’s what Carpenter does, using it to water plants at her Southern California [...]

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BY Adam Wasch, Energy Outreach Consultant for CCHRC and UAF CES Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner April 29th, 2009, Section A3 Alaska’s energy resources amount to more than the oil and gas that have so much transformed the state during the past 40 years. One largely untapped resource is wind power. Large-scale operations, such as [...]

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BY Adam Wasch, Energy Outreach Consultant for CCHRC and UAF CES Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner April 23rd, 2009, Section A3 “Was I to believe him in earnest in his intention to penetrate to the centre of this massive globe? Had I been listening to the mad speculations of a lunatic, or to the scientific [...]

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