Sustainable North

On December 19, President Bush signed H.R. 6, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, into law (Public Law 110-140). Among the provisions in the law is one that will outlaw incandescent lightbulbs by 2012.
Click here to read a white paper on the law’s lighting provisions, produced by the Lighting Controls Association.

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BY: John Davies, Cold Climate Housing Research Center
Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily Newsminer August 21st, 2008, Section A3
Is your head swimming with all the talk about energy costs, weatherization, and energy rebates? Are you looking for a good, comprehensive source of information that explains the basics of energy use in your home and what steps you [...]

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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 Higher [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer August 11, 2008.
Here’s an amazing fact: About 10 percent of the energy used by a regular incandescent light bulb goes to produce light. The rest is wasted as heat. Though heat is always nice in our cold winters, it is very inefficient heat at a very high cost.
Energy-efficient lights produce [...]

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BY: John Davies, CCHRC Research Director
Fairbanks Daily Newsminer 03/13/08 Section A3
There are many different types of energy efficient lighting available. For indoor use, typical choices involve replacing incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lights (CFL) or old fluorescent tubes (T12) with newer ones (T8 or T5). LED lighting is available for some uses such as holiday [...]

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