Sustainable North

From The Alaska Science Forum, Sunday, August 15, 2010: A friend says that among his most satisfying moments are those he stands contemplating his pile of firewood. He inhales the sweetness of birch, the tang of aspen and the sharp bite of spruce while he ponders the moisture wafting out of his wood. My friend [...]

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Event hosted by Alaska Interfaith Power & Light: Join Alaska IPL at the Pioneer Park Civic Center on Saturday, January 30th, 2010 from 11 am to 3 pm, for an inspiring community event — One People, One Earth. This free, family-friendly event will infuse fun, faith, education and charitable opportunities to learn about environmental stewardship [...]

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The Science for Alaska Lecture Series presents: New Energy for Alaska Communites Gwen Holdmann, Director of the Alaska Center for Energy and Power for the University of Alaska 7:00 pm, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 in the Westmark Gold Room, Fairbanks Click here for more information.

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From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Thursday, December 17, 2009: Environmentalists and conservatives have joined forces to help solve air pollution in Fairbanks. Their report goes before the Fairbanks North Star Borough air pollution control commission today, and one of the recommendations calls on the government to improve access to wood cutting on public lands. The [...]

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From the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wednesday, November 11, 2009: Current optimism for a continued economic turnaround is driving oil prices higher, despite high inventories, according to the DOE’s Energy Information Administration (EIA). The EIA released its monthly “Short-Term Energy Outlook” on November 10. Its forecast [...]

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EIA has released 12 new State Rankings pages that display charts and maps ordered by data value. The rankings cover energy production, consumption, and price, as well as carbon dioxide emissions from electric power plants, as follows: Total Energy Production Crude Oil Production Natural Gas Marketed Production Coal Production Total Net Electricity Generation Carbon Dioxide [...]

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From inhabit.com on Thursday, May 7, 2009: … we’re focusing upon tracking energy usage, since the first step to cutting down on our power consumption is being able to measure it. Smart meters installed as part of smart grid projects will make it extra-easy to monitor home energy use — and while there are numerous [...]

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From the Anchorage Daily News on Sunday, February 8, 2009: Gov. Sarah Palin plans to introduce a bill calling for creating a joint corporation of the six Railbelt electric utilities. Palin says such an entity could unite a “fragmented group of rival utilities” and could save rate payers $40 million annually. The utilities are Fairbanks-based [...]

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From the New York Times on Wednesday, January 14, 2009: “From the manufacturers’ standpoint, it’s pretty serious,” said Bill Stewart, president of SolarCraft, a California installer, in a conversation with Green Inc. Until last summer there were still shortages of solar modules (which in turn were due to shortages of the polysilicon material they are made [...]

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From the Washington Post on Friday, January 9, 2009: President-elect Barack Obama said yesterday that he wanted to double the production of alternative energy over the next three years, a goal that will probably require a new set of government incentives for the capital-intensive solar and wind industries. Six months ago, some of the biggest [...]

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