Sustainable North

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 New York Times on Wednesday, March 18, 2009: Solar cells adorn the roofs of many homes and warehouses across Germany, while the bright white blades of wind turbines are a frequent sight against the sky in Spain. If one day these machines become as common on the plains and rooftops of the United [...]

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From the Washington Post, retrieved on Tuesday, March 10, 2009, read this interesting graphic to compare the manufacture of paper and plastic bags. You already know what you can do instead, but did you know that manufacturing paper bags take more resources, and leave more toxic waste, than plastic?

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From the Washington Post on Tuesday, March 10, 2009: One gizmo allows you to run the dishwasher when electricity is cheapest. Another decides when to fire up the water heater if you plan on a 6 a.m. shower. Another routes solar energy from a rooftop panel to a battery in your garage and the wiring [...]

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From the New York Times on Tuesday, March 10, 2009: Although home energy tracking devices like the single-outlet Kill A Watt or the whole-house Power2Save unit are gaining popularity in this energy-conscious age, I hadn’t tried one out until my electric bill topped out at $150 in January. That prompted me to invest in an [...]

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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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BY Adam Wasch, Energy Outreach Consultant for CCHRC and UAF CES Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner March 5th, 2009, Section A3 Sometimes, I worry that the U.S. economy is in trouble because our gross national product is almost entirely comprised of web pages. I’d contribute by adding my own personal web page, but I’m afraid [...]

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From the New York Times on Wednesday, February 25, 2009: The money in the bill is enough to pay for a tremendous expansion of efficiency efforts across the country. But as with other parts of the stimulus package, the efficiency plan is creating tension between spending the money quickly, to get rapid economic stimulus, and [...]

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From the Washington Post on Sunday, February 15, 2009: I’m in the corner of our family room, by the TV, looking to take a first baby step toward making my houshold greener. … The easiest step of all would be to sit back and let the Obama administration solve global warming, along with all the [...]

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From the New York Times on Saturday, February 14, 2009: Wind turbines typically spin from tall towers on hills and plains. But in these green times, some companies hope smaller turbines will soon rise above a more domestic spot: homes and garages. An Energy Ball turbine.  Adam Bird for The New York Times The rooftop [...]

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