Sustainable North

  The State of Alaska has published its proposal for grant allocation from the Alaska Renewable Energy Fund. This money will fund the construction of a wide range of alternative energy projects throughout the state. The total proposed expenditure from the State of Alaska is $100 million, with a Federal match of approximately $300 million. [...]

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From the Union of Concerned Scientists, retrieved  on Friday, December 12, 2008: The renewable energy industry is growing at a record pace in the United States, and so too is the demand for skilled “green collar” workers. Faces of Renewable Energy showcases real people who are building our clean energy economy. Click here to listen [...]

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From the Anchorage Daily News, on Wednesday, December 9, 2008: Alaska farmers are always trying to find ways to make summer last a little longer. Now a dozen around the state, including four in the Valley, are getting a chance to try, thanks to a new state agricultural grant program. The program, offered by the [...]

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From the Anchorage Daily News on November 2, 2008: Want to buy some hot water? A lot of hot water? Maybe even enough to supply Anchorage with cheap, clean, reliable geothermal energy for years to come? That’s essentially the proposition Alaska land managers floated recently while trying to lease geothermal rights to state land on [...]

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From The New Yorker Magazine, July 7, 2008: For the past decade or so, Samsø [Denmark] has been the site of an unlikely social movement. When it began, in the late nineteen-nineties, the island’s forty-three hundred inhabitants had what might be described as a conventional attitude toward energy: as long as it continued to arrive, [...]

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About a new New York State campus that is using sustainable building practices. From the New York Times July 27, 2008: “Stony Brook Southampton will certainly be among a limited number of campuses with this level of commitment to sustainability,” says Judy Walton, acting executive director of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in [...]

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From the Associated Press July 14, 2008 PARIS, Maine – Mark Bancroft’s new pellet-burning furnace hasn’t been installed, but he’s already counting how much money he’ll save over his old oil-fired burner. Instead of paying $5,000 for 1,100 gallons of heating oil in the coming year based on today’s record prices, he’ll spend $2,000 on about [...]

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