Sustainable North

From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer August 15, 2008.
“What I’m trying to do is save the planet in my own way,” da Luz said before an audience of a few dozen people who assembled at the Cold Climate Housing Research Center for a demonstration.
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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer August 14, 2008.
A solar-powered car on three wheels arrived in Fairbanks on Wednesday evening, creating a spectacle as the spaceship-like vehicle made its way down the Johansen Expressway to the Cold Climate Housing Research Center.
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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer August 11, 2008.
Here’s an amazing fact: About 10 percent of the energy used by a regular incandescent light bulb goes to produce light. The rest is wasted as heat. Though heat is always nice in our cold winters, it is very inefficient heat at a very high cost.
Energy-efficient lights produce [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily News Miner August 7th, 2008
Passing even more of private energy costs in Alaska to state government is a policy fraught with long-term peril, but since the current emergency has made action inevitable, the Legislature should adopt a simple, limited program with a clear expiration date.
The program that best fits those criteria [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily News Miner August 8th, 2008
FAIRBANKS — The last remaining Nunamiut Inupiat Eskimo community settled Anaktuvuk Pass just 60 years ago, trading in nomadic life for village life in a valley tucked 2,200 feet up in the central Brooks Range. In the one-airstrip town with no roads in or out, some 300 [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily News Miner  August 7th, 2008
JUNEAU — With one day left in this special session, lawmakers are still without an agreement on an energy assistance bill.
The Senate likes its two-year, $1.3 billion package that includes a $500 payout for most Alaska residents and assistance with heating and utility bills. It passed the upper [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily Newminer July 30, 2008
If an excess of garden blessings and soaring food prices have you thinking about how to preserve your fruits and vegetables for the winter, read on. The steps are simpler than most folks think.
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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer July 28, 2008
Tanana Valley farmers these days are finding success means more than growing lettuce, barley and cows.
They’re cultivating personal relationships with their customers, cutting out the middleman and creating new local markets whose needs they can respond to quickly and effectively.
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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer July 28, 2008
An occasional tractor-trailer rumbled by at 60 mph as Tom Balland, wearing a bright orange reflective vest, crawled around on the shoulder of the Dalton Highway near Prospect Creek pulling weeds.
The trucks, hauling equipment and supplies to the North Slope oil fields, are a common sight on the [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer July 23, 2008
Air-quality and health officials said Tuesday that chronic air pollution presents long-term health risks for people in Fairbanks.
They also said they’re still nailing down exactly where the pollution — a mix of soot, dust and other particles — comes from.
Health specialists on the panel, which addressed the Fairbanks [...]

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