Sustainable North

From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Saturday, July 10, 2010: A ballot group succeeded in gaining the signatures to put a question to the Fairbanks area voters that, if approved, would reverse new air pollution regulations. A Fairbanks North Star Borough canvassing board approved the signatures last week. The question about whether the borough should be [...]

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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: A lot of people are participating in the rebate program to make their home more energy efficient. I was under [...]

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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 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, June 27, 2010: Eighty narrow strips of solar cells in the pattern of a giant xylophone blinked in the bright Fairbanks sunshine this week. The first solar laminate wall in Alaska covers the south side of the school district’s facility building downtown. Larry Morris pointed to a dip in [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Monday, June 28, 2010: Fairbanks puts almost all its paper, glass and plastic in the trash. Karl Monetti dares you to come up alternatives — convince him and six other commissioners that you can recycle at a sustained level, and public managers might give you the green light. Help local [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Wednesday, June 23, 2010: A wind farm near Healy would likely produce cheaper power than the wholesale prices Golden Valley Electric Association pays, Kate Lamal, a vice president for the utility, said Tuesday.  Lamal said that if projections hold true, that would prevent customer rates from increasing if the utility [...]

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The Cold Climate Housing Research Center is hosting tours of its green roof on Thursdays at 1:30 p.m. Visitors taking the tour will learn about green infrastructure and what Fairbanks-area homeowners can do to reduce rainwater and pollutant runoff from their property. Learn more: CCHRC’s Green Infrastructure Project

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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, Sunday, June 13, 2010: Car after car pulled up to a line of bins sitting in a parking lot at a local homeless shelter. Some bins held paper. Some cardboard. Others aluminum. It was Saturday, the busiest day of the week at the Fairbanks Rescue Mission Recycling Center. But it [...]

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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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