Sustainable North

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

From the New York Times on Wednesday, February 11, 2009: The modular housing industry likes to say that it has always had a few characteristics that today might be considered eco-friendly — from reduced waste to a smaller construction footprint. “In a modular plant, recycling is huge,” says Chad Harvey, the deputy director of the [...]

[Read more →]

From the New York Times on Tuesday, February 10, 2009: … This study covered the United States east of the Rockies, minus Texas and Florida, and was prompted by the utilities’ concern that state quotas for renewable energy, already in place — or a proposed federal mandate — would have to be met with wind [...]

[Read more →]

From the New York Times on Tuesday, February 3, 2009: Wind and solar power have been growing at a blistering pace in recent years, and that growth seemed likely to accelerate under the green-minded Obama administration. But because of the credit crisis and the broader economic downturn, the opposite is happening: installation of wind and [...]

[Read more →]

From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on Monday, February 2, 2009: Businessman Bernie Karl said he’s ready to move ahead with a prototype power system: A small-scale energy plant he’d link to indoor food production and biofuel cultivation. The project — which he said he started eyeing a few years ago — has drawn recent interest [...]

[Read more →]

From the Anchorage Daily News on Sunday, February 1, 2009: An effort to find new sources of renewable “small hydro” power for the Railbelt is running into opposition from advocates of another, equally noble environmental cause: protection of the mountain headwaters of the fish-rich Kenai River. Electric Association, working with a private consortium, is studying [...]

[Read more →]

From businessweek.com, posted on January 6, 2009 and retrieved on Friday, January 30, 2009: When the homebuilding industry descends on Las Vegas on Jan. 20 for its annual trade show, a highlight as always will be a project called the New American Home. This model house—a new one gets built each year—serves as a showcase [...]

[Read more →]

From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on Wednesday, January 28, 2009: A document submitted as a state energy plan falls short of its mark, while renewable energy projects submitted for funding might go too far, legislators said. Members of the House Energy Committee, including Rep. Jay Ramras, R-Fairbanks, were critical of the Alaska Energy Authority’s state [...]

[Read more →]

  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. [...]

[Read more →]