Sustainable North

From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Thursday, February 4, 2010:

Check your chimney or have someone else do it.
Charlie Whitaker, who has cleaned chimneys for 25 years, sent me three photos of chimneys he cleaned this week.
During his career in Fairbanks, Whitaker has peered into 10,000 chimneys, but never has he seen a bigger problem with creosote. 
He [...]

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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 some of the risks with adding insulation to the outside of my home?
It is a complex issue, and what works [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.
Click here to read the full story.

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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 [...]

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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 windows are preferred for a passive solar home, double- or triple-pane? With or without coatings? Which coatings? What type of [...]

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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 [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Tuesday, January 19, 2010:
Increasing sunlight has helped improve particulate pollution in Fairbanks, according to borough air quality specialist Jim Conner.
The average particulate pollution level in Fairbanks on Monday was 40 micrograms per cubic meter of air, making the air unhealthy for sensitive groups, Conner said.
Earlier this month, daily averages were [...]

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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 [...]

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