Sustainable North

ASK A BUILDER By CCHRC Staff The “Ask a Builder” series is dedicated to answering some of the questions Fairbanks residents have about building, energy and the many other parts of home life. Q: Does it matter what type of wood I burn in my woodstove? Most species of local wood are suitable for burning [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Tuesday, September 14, 2010: Instead of tossing that old computer or printer into the trash, Interior Alaska Green Star suggests that you take it to the annual Fall Electronics Recycling Event Sept. 24-25 at the Tanana Valley Fairgrounds. Aged electronics of all sorts will be accepted from 10 a.m. to [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Saturday, September 11, 2010: Gov. Sean Parnell says that if Alaska is to meet the ambitious goal of getting half of its electricity from renewable sources some day, it will have to make a major commitment to big hydroelectric project, such as the Susitna project. On a visit to Fairbanks [...]

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From The Associated Press, Friday, September 10, 2010: The federal government is giving Alaska $700,000 to take steps to improve energy efficiency in the state by 2020. The U.S. Department of Energy funding is intended to go toward efforts such as expanding current energy efficiency programs and outreach and creating necessary policy to lead to [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Friday, September 10, 2010: Art and science are not mutually exclusive disciplines and the artists and scientists behind “In a Time of Change: Envisioning the Future” are going to prove it. A project in two parts — a gallery exhibition and a stage performance — has the intention of changing [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Wednesday, September 8, 2010: The entrance of the garden at the Tanana Valley fairgrounds smelled like a minty fusion as about a dozen students harvested crops Tuesday afternoon. “The spearmint needs to be weighed. The kale needs to be weighed,” said Sheryl Meirerotto, who teaches the eighth-grade class from Effie [...]

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From Alaska Dispatch, Tuesday, September 7, 2010: A state program designed to ensure that rural Alaska communities have an adequate supply of home-heating fuel is headed into its second successful year, the state reported in a press release. The Fuel Watch program is an initiative of Gov. Sean Parnell that was implemented by the Department [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Saturday, September 4, 2010: The Fairbanks Rescue Mission celebrates the first anniversary of its recycling center today with a barbecue and open house starting at noon. Executive director Rodney Gaskins will be available to guide things along. Visitors might get to check out the baler that compacts the cardboard, mixed [...]

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From The Anchorage Daily News, Sunday, August 15, 2010: As an Alaska Native veteran, I want to see our country expand our clean energy sources. It will help our planet and our state, it will help Alaska’s Native peoples and it will help our national defense. I am 69 years old. In my lifetime I [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Tuesday, August 31, 2010: Hospital visits for heart disease, stroke and lung afflictions in Fairbanks rise as the air quality deteriorates, according to new study by the state of Alaska. A researcher with the state Section of Epidemiology combed over five years of records at the Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. She [...]

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