Sustainable North

From National Geographic’s Green Guide, Thursday, July 29, 2010: In the near future, maybe everything we need will be assembled on the spot in machines like Star Trek‘s replicators, but for now, we’ll have to settle for growing cups, plates, and packing material from food. A few inventors are working on products that use mushrooms, [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Tuesday, September 14, 2010: Instead of tossing that old computer or printer into the trash, Interior Alaska Green Star suggests that you take it to the annual Fall Electronics Recycling Event Sept. 24-25 at the Tanana Valley Fairgrounds. Aged electronics of all sorts will be accepted from 10 a.m. to [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Saturday, September 4, 2010: The Fairbanks Rescue Mission celebrates the first anniversary of its recycling center today with a barbecue and open house starting at noon. Executive director Rodney Gaskins will be available to guide things along. Visitors might get to check out the baler that compacts the cardboard, mixed [...]

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From earthshare.org: We all know instilling good habits is easiest when we’re young, so more and more parents and educators are working to make kids aware of the importance of caring for our planet. As kids get ready to return to school in the fall here are some simple tips to encourage sustainable habits and [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Friday, July 30, 2010: FAIRBANKS — Most sheds aren’t much to look at. But the new cordwood garden shed at the Georgeson Botanical Gardens could almost pass for a Victorian stone building from afar, sitting on a hill among a riot of red and pink poppies and giant sunflowers. It [...]

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From Mother Earth News, Friday, July 16, 2010: From napkins and servingware to bottles of wine and flowers for the table, there are dozens ways to unintentionally create waste (and find items you can spend money on) when hosting an event — whether you’re entertaining a few friends for dinner or throwing the shindig of the season. Fortunately, [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Monday, June 28, 2010: Fairbanks puts almost all its paper, glass and plastic in the trash. Karl Monetti dares you to come up alternatives — convince him and six other commissioners that you can recycle at a sustained level, and public managers might give you the green light. Help local [...]

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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: Are there any regulations I need to know about before I put up a wind tower, or can I put [...]

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From The Associated Press, Friday, June 18, 2010: The Anchorage area’s private trash hauler, Alaska Waste, is picking up used food-frying oil and has started turning it into biodiesel to power its trucks. The company showed off its new $3 million plant Thursday in south Anchorage where it turned out its first batch of biodiesel [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, June 13, 2010: Car after car pulled up to a line of bins sitting in a parking lot at a local homeless shelter. Some bins held paper. Some cardboard. Others aluminum. It was Saturday, the busiest day of the week at the Fairbanks Rescue Mission Recycling Center. But it [...]

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