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 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Wednesday, September 8, 2010: The entrance of the garden at the Tanana Valley fairgrounds smelled like a minty fusion as about a dozen students harvested crops Tuesday afternoon. “The spearmint needs to be weighed. The kale needs to be weighed,” said Sheryl Meirerotto, who teaches the eighth-grade class from Effie [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Saturday, September 4, 2010: The Fairbanks Rescue Mission celebrates the first anniversary of its recycling center today with a barbecue and open house starting at noon. Executive director Rodney Gaskins will be available to guide things along. Visitors might get to check out the baler that compacts the cardboard, mixed [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Tuesday, August 31, 2010: Hospital visits for heart disease, stroke and lung afflictions in Fairbanks rise as the air quality deteriorates, according to new study by the state of Alaska. A researcher with the state Section of Epidemiology combed over five years of records at the Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. She [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Monday, August 2, 2010: The borough began taking applications last week for its wood stove repair and replacement program. “The program is up and operational,” air quality director Glenn Miller said. Applications are available at the borough air quality office on Peger Road. The program is still evolving, and applications [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Monday, August 2, 2010: The Borough Clerk last week compiled ballot language for the home heating initiative. Fairbanks North Star Borough voters on Oct. 5 will be asked to vote yes or no on the following statement: “The borough shall not ban, prohibit, or fine residents for the use of [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Friday, July 30, 2010: The Borough Assembly passed a resolution approving the port authority’s plan to purchase Fairbanks Natural Gas LLC and launch a natural gas trucking operation. A separate measure calling for a public vote on the plan narrowly failed. The $250 million project now goes before the Regulatory [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily Newsminer, Thursday, July 29, 2010: A plan to transfer Fairbanks Natural Gas LLC from private to public ownership and truck liquefied natural gas to Fairbanks from the North Slope is doomed, according to an Alaska Gasline Port Authority board member. Board member Merrick Peirce wrote in an e-mail that the assumption [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Tuesday, July 13, 2010: The number of people who heat with wood in the Fairbanks North Star Borough is slowly rising, a new study shows. Researchers called 300 area households last winter and asked a series of questions, mostly regarding home heating habits. They found the number of borough households [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News Miner, Saturday, July 10, 2010: Assemblyman Guy Sattley has drafted an ordinance requiring a public vote on the plan to truck liquefied natural gas to Fairbanks, but Borough Mayor Luke Hopkins said delaying the $250 million project is risky. “If we stretch this timeline out,” Hopkins said Thursday at a [...]

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