Sustainable North

About a new New York State campus that is using sustainable building practices. From the New York Times July 27, 2008:
“Stony Brook Southampton will certainly be among a limited number of campuses with this level of commitment to sustainability,” says Judy Walton, acting executive director of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher [...]

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From Reuters, July 31, 2008:
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - A U.S. scientist has developed a new way of powering fuel cells that could make it practical for home owners to store solar energy and produce electricity to run lights and appliances at night.
A new catalyst produces the oxygen and hydrogen that fuel cells use to generate [...]

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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 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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The UAF Sustainability Transition Committee has published their 2008 Summary Report.  It presents sustainable campus goals for UAF starting this fall and looking ahead two years.  Topics include: energy, waste, transportation, food, water, buildings, etc. 
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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 Newminer July 20, 2008
Home-heating fuel costs $4.69 per gallon, two dollars more than September of last year.
With winter creeping closer, building and energy professionals are busy trying to get Fairbanks energy healthy, and some residents are taking matters into their own hands by attacking energy inefficiencies at home.
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Column from the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer July 14, 08
Finally it is summer in Fairbanks, with warm weather and lush green growth all around us.
Wildflowers are showing off their bright yellows, purples, pinks and blues.
Arnica, fireweed, bluebells, wild sweet pea and others adorn the roadsides.
All is well. Or is it?
Among these wonderful native wildflowers are “imitators”; [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer July 5, 2008
A group of Dillingham, Alaska, fishermen hoping to reduce gas costs for the Bristol Bay fleet are sketching plans to turn salmon waste into fuel.
In Nunam Iqua in Western Alaska, a tiny utility hopes to spin power from the wind electric use will jump when a new school [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer June 30, 08
Paula and George Hatchman rode a shuttle bus into Denali National Park this month. When the bus driver announced their arrival at the new Eielson Visitor Center, they wondered if he was joking.
“You wouldn’t even know it was here,” said the visitor from Australia. “It just blends with [...]

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