Sustainable North

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 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 New York Times, Wednesday, September 8, 2010: Mention “new lighting technology” and what leaps to mind is probably a compact fluorescent curlicue. Shaped like a soft ice cream cone, it is viewed as a replacement for the ubiquitous 60-watt incandescent light bulb, which looks almost like it did 90 years ago. But a [...]

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From US DOE, Monday, August 20, 2010: Last week as part of Vice President Biden’s announcement of 200,000 homes weatherized under the Recovery act, we asked you to send us your questions and comments about the weatherization process. Today, we’re following up with answers experts from the Department’s Weatherization and Intergovernmental Program: 1) From edmooney [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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From The New York Times, Friday, August 13, 2010: The recession is lingering, and so is the unspent stimulus money that was meant to help end it. The latest example is the $3.2 billion that Congress voted in February 2009 as part of an economic stimulus package to simultaneously provide jobs and improve energy efficiency [...]

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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: Many people are fixing their old home and getting a rebate from the state. Is there still rebate money available [...]

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From Thedailygreen.com: When you think of sustainable dining, you probably don’t think of fast-food restaurants like Subway, Starbucks and Chipotle. And yet, these fast food chains are some of the few who have successfully pursued LEED certification. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is an internationally recognized third-party certification that a [...]

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From The Anchorage Daily News, Friday, July 23, 2010: Thanks to clever marketers, if I said I had a problem with ED, you might immediately have an idea what I’m talking about. But I have a problem with EE. It’s no cause for embarrassment — EE is a great thing. EE can save you money, [...]

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