Sustainable North

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: Recently I read the News-Miner story about the heat pump being installed at Weller Elementary School. Are there different ways [...]

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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 APRN, Friday, August 13, 2010: For years, the Aleutian village of Akutan has seen the energy potential in its hot springs and fumaroles. Now, it looks like that potential might be realized. In July, work began on two exploratory wells. The first one was drilled on July 16, and it’s producing hot water at [...]

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From The Associated Press, Friday, June 9, 2010: The Naknek Electric Association is drilling a well near King Salmon to test the potential for geothermal energy. Association General Manager Donna Vukich told KTUU-TV the search for renewable energy from underground heat has been a 10-year, $20 million project. If successful it could serve villages across [...]

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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 am going to dig up my foundation this summer so I can put on outside foam insulation. Do I [...]

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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: What is a heat pump and can it work in Fairbanks? A heat pump is a mechanical system that uses [...]

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BY Adam Wasch, Energy Outreach Consultant for CCHRC and UAF CES Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner April 23rd, 2009, Section A3 “Was I to believe him in earnest in his intention to penetrate to the centre of this massive globe? Had I been listening to the mad speculations of a lunatic, or to the scientific [...]

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From treehugger.com on February 20, 2009, retrieved on 3/6/09: The stimulus bill has finally been passed and signed into law—and now it’s time to help put the thing into action. Which shouldn’t be tough to do: tucked into the thousands of pages of confounding language, there are tons of fantastic new tax credits you can [...]

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From the U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy office, posted on 2/18/09, retrieved on Friday, March 6, 2009: President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on February 17, and the tax section of the act provides greater tax credits for clean energy projects at homes and businesses [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on Wednesday, January 28, 2009: A document submitted as a state energy plan falls short of its mark, while renewable energy projects submitted for funding might go too far, legislators said. Members of the House Energy Committee, including Rep. Jay Ramras, R-Fairbanks, were critical of the Alaska Energy Authority’s state [...]

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