Sustainable North

From planetgreen.com: Honing your green skills is part of growing and learning to walk softly on the earth. How many things do you really know how to do in order to increase your green and decrease your carbon footprint? Here is a list of 100 essential skills for the green do-it-yourself-er.

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From Alaska Dispatch, Friday, September 24, 2010: Jenny Vanderweele’s house looks out over Vanderweele Farm fields, so she has a front row seat to the bloom-and-bust summer season. As fall approaches, she spends hours in her kitchen putting up fall vegetables for the winter. Though she also pickles and cans produce from the farm, Vanderweele [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, September 26, 2010: A Fairbanks developer said Tuesday he hopes he can build a 25-megawatt wind farm near Delta Junction despite limited avenues for public aid. Mike Craft said his firm, Alaska Environmental Power, is working with Golden Valley Electric Association to study how to best feed wind power [...]

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From Yale Environment 360, Thursday, September 23, 2010: In late July, a group of Inuit hunters set off by boat along the west coast of Banks Island to search for Peary caribou, which inhabit the Arctic archipelago of Canada. Roger Kuptana, a 62-year-old Inuit who had grown up on the island, didn’t give his fellow [...]

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From The New York Times, Thursday, September 23, 2010: Three House Republicans, Joe Barton and Michael Burgess of Texas and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, have introduced the Better Use of Light Bulbs Act, which would repeal the section of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 that sets minimum energy efficiency standards for light [...]

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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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From National Geographic’s Green Guide, Thursday, July 29, 2010: In the near future, maybe everything we need will be assembled on the spot in machines like Star Trek‘s replicators, but for now, we’ll have to settle for growing cups, plates, and packing material from food. A few inventors are working on products that use mushrooms, [...]

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From The Associated Press, Friday, September 17, 2010: A University of Alaska group will receive $3 million to study options to optimize wind-diesel hybrid energy systems in rural Alaska. The Alaska Center for Energy and Power, based at UA Fairbanks, was awarded the grant by the federal Department of Energy. The university says Alaska already [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Friday, September 17, 2010: Large rolls of black tubing sat like super-sized balls of yarn next to the playground outside Weller Elementary School Wednesday. The sun shined brightly on the south-facing hillside, where a bulldozer carved out a 12-foot hole. The balls, which are actually polyethylene ground loops, were then [...]

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From The Tundra Drums, Wednesday, September 15, 2010: WindPower Innovations Inc., a wind power infrastructure and smart grid solutions company (PINK SHEETS:WPNV), announced talks with Alaska Villages Electric Co-op (AVEC), a non-profit electric utility, owned by the people served in 53 villages throughout interior and western Alaska, and is the largest service area of any [...]

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