Sustainable North

From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Monday, June 5, 2010: Everyone in Fairbanks knows summer is when the ground thaws and your bones warm. But it’s also the season when your walls dry by shedding moisture deposited in the wall cavity during the winter. When walls warm in the sun, built-up water vapor wants to go [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Saturday, June 26, 2010: A local group opposed to a new borough ordinance that regulates the sale, installation and use of wood and coal stoves, has gathered enough signatures to challenge the ordinance. North Star Landowners, sponsors of The Home Heating Protection Act, gathered more than 3,000 signatures for the [...]

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From The Associated Press, Friday, June 18, 2010: The Anchorage area’s private trash hauler, Alaska Waste, is picking up used food-frying oil and has started turning it into biodiesel to power its trucks. The company showed off its new $3 million plant Thursday in south Anchorage where it turned out its first batch of biodiesel [...]

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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: I have a concrete foundation. I heard insulating your foundation can save heat. How can I do that? Concrete is [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, June 13, 2010: A group trying to overturn new wood stove regulations has until June 24 to gather 2,379 qualified signatures to put a question before the Fairbanks North Star Borough voters on Oct. 5. “We are well under way,” said Rick VanderKolk, treasurer of the North Star Landowners, [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Friday, June 11, 2010: The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly adopted new chimney smoke regulations early Friday in an effort to crack down on air pollution, although the rules are looser than those sought by Mayor Luke Hopkins. The panel approved the ordinance in a 5-3 vote shortly after midnight [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Thursday, June 10, 2010: One of the questions put to borough officials during a forum on wood smoke pollution was this: “Isn’t there enough existing laws on the books to take care of neighbors with outdoor boilers being rude to their neighbors and not burning the proper material? Don’t you [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, May 30, 2010: Proposed wood burning regulations — fining polluters up to $500 — return before the Borough Assembly in the coming weeks. If approved, the regulations set limits on chimney smoke opacity and restrict the burning of certain materials, including trash, tires, animal carcasses and manure. The assembly [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: The Fairbanks North Star Borough is hosting two air quality open houses this week to discuss a proposal to curb air pollution, a borough announcement said. The first open house takes place today at West Valley High School Performing Arts Center. The second open house is Wednesday in the Weller [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Tuesday, April 13, 2010: Borough Mayor Luke Hopkins revised his air pollution control plan, adding a provision prohibiting dense chimney smoke that creates a nuisance for neighbors. Hopkins said Monday that he plans to ask for assembly approval in June. The measure, Ordinance 2010-17, sets limits on chimney smoke opacity, [...]

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