Sustainable North

From National Geographic’s Green Guide:
Green up your laundry room with cleaner, healthier products. Check out this interactive guide.

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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 have seen [...]

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From The Arctic Sounder, Wednesday, August 25, 2010:
The success of an innovative new home in Anaktuvuk Pass – which uses a wind power, solar panels and design features of traditional Nunamiut sod housing – is changing the way houses will be designed and built on the North Slope.
“This is a huge leap forward – I [...]

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From NYTimes.com, Wednesday, August 18, 2010:
When it comes to saving energy, many Americans seem to get it — and at the same time they don’t get it at all.
That’s the takeaway from a new study by researchers from Columbia University, Ohio State University and Carnegie Mellon University who found that people are far more likely [...]

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From The Daily Green:

Serve potluck dishes made from local foods. Invite a farm family, or arrange a visit to a local farm sometime.
Then, play old-fashioned outdoor games and sing folk songs and modern tunes about gardens and farms and saving the Earth. Play board games like Earthopoly, Wild Seed Game, Harvest Time, Farmopoly and Gardenopoly. [...]

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From The Tundra Drums, Friday, August 20, 2010:
If Alaskans aren’t at a crossroads politically, we’re drawing close. Most all candidates running for statewide offices this year have given due time to talk about the state’s energy future, since we’ve been living off of our energy past for so long and change is coming. A dwindling [...]

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From APRN, Monday, August 23, 2010:
A Southeast Alaska hydropower plant is closer to completion. A $9 million Alaska Energy Authority grant is the final piece of the funding puzzle for the Prince of Wales Island’s Reynolds Creek project.
Listen online: Southeast Hydropower Plant Approaches Completion

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Friday, August 20, 2010:

Amid the heavy equipment and industrial setting of the Golden Heart Utilities wastewater treatment plant, it’s easy to spot the nearby garden filled with squash, tomatoes and corn.
The lush plot runs along one side of the South Fairbanks facility and gives employees an opportunity to collect an [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily Newsminer, Thursday, August 19, 2010:

The Cooperative Extension Service has a variety of videos and online lessons available for people looking to preserve newly harvested fish or game.
Extension is offering DVDs and online information about canning basics for fish and meat. The lessons combine written, audio and video information, and are available [...]

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From The Daily Green,

The electrics are coming! By the end of the year, at least six battery-powered vehicles will be on the U.S. market. The cars will finally go from revolving on show stands to dealer floors, and we’ll finally know if consumers mean it when they say in opinion polls that they’ll consider an [...]

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