Sustainable North

From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Thursday, September 30, 2010: Flint Hills Resources unveiled in-home water treatment systems as a longer-term way to provide clean water to North Pole residents at a community meeting Tuesday night. The filtration system is comprised of standard parts assembled specially to remove sulfolane. They are being tested during the next [...]

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From The Associated Press, Friday, September 10, 2010: The federal government is giving Alaska $700,000 to take steps to improve energy efficiency in the state by 2020. The U.S. Department of Energy funding is intended to go toward efforts such as expanding current energy efficiency programs and outreach and creating necessary policy to lead to [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Tuesday, February 16, 2010: Public administrators and senators Monday steered what could be the start of much scrutiny of a major energy bill. The bill, the proposed Alaska Sustainable Energy Act, addresses a broad slate of demand- and supply-side energy production and efficiency issues. It would, among other things, update [...]

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From the Wall Street Journal on Monday, December 15, 2008: President-elect Barack Obama’s pick for energy secretary, Dr. Steven Chu, is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who’s on the record calling coal a “nightmare” and advocating raising U.S. gas taxes to European levels to promote conservation.  Mr. Obama himself has so far dismissed the idea of [...]

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From Reuters on Monday, December 8, 2008: Recession and the change of U.S. administration make it unlikely the world will meet a 2009 deadline for agreeing a full new pact to fight global warming, delegates at U.N. climate talks say. A year ago, 190 nations signed up for a two-year push to agree a comprehensive [...]

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From the Chicago Tribune on Sunday, December 7, 2008: Chief Bill Erasmus of the Dene nation in northern Canada brought a stark warning about the climate crisis: The once abundant herds of caribou are dwindling, rivers are running lower and the ice is too thin to hunt on. Erasmus raised his concerns in recent days [...]

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From www.change.gov, retrieved on Thursday, November 20, 2008: The energy challenges our country faces are severe and have gone unaddressed for far too long. Our addiction to foreign oil doesn’t just undermine our national security and wreak havoc on our environment — it cripples our economy and strains the budgets of working families all across [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer August 14, 2008. A solar-powered car on three wheels arrived in Fairbanks on Wednesday evening, creating a spectacle as the spaceship-like vehicle made its way down the Johansen Expressway to the Cold Climate Housing Research Center. Click here to read the full article.

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BY: John Davies, Cold Climate Housing Research Center Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner June 19, 2008,  Section A3 From time to time, we get calls at the research center asking if it makes sense to shut down one’s oil-fired boiler during the summer, and provide hot water using an electric hot water heater instead. Of course, the [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer June 12, 2008 We need to focus on the areas where we’ll get the best return of money,” Schmetzer said. Cutting tiny costs here and there isn’t what the task force is looking for because the changes needed to update the city are expensive. “We’re looking for the long term [...]

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