Sustainable North

From The Anchorage Daily News, Sunday, August 15, 2010:

As an Alaska Native veteran, I want to see our country expand our clean energy sources. It will help our planet and our state, it will help Alaska’s Native peoples and it will help our national defense.

I am 69 years old. In my lifetime I have seen [...]

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From The Arctic Sounder, Wednesday, August 25, 2010:
The success of an innovative new home in Anaktuvuk Pass – which uses a wind power, solar panels and design features of traditional Nunamiut sod housing – is changing the way houses will be designed and built on the North Slope.
“This is a huge leap forward – I [...]

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From The Tundra Drums, Wednesday, July 7, 2010:
The “river loggers” who float driftwood down the Yukon River for heating have a new use for their big bundles: a seafood company that hopes to show housing agencies it can build low-cost homes with local materials.
The Yukon Delta Fisheries Development Association buys the logs and last year [...]

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From The New York Times, Friday, June 25, 2010:
A long-running joke with my nieces, Allison and Lindsay, is that a mistake involving caribou is a “caribou-bou.”  Our caribou-bou is now clear.  We missed the massive migrations of the Western caribou herd in Alaska by two days. We’ve seen recent tracks everywhere, as well as those [...]

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From Peninsula Clarion, Saturday, May 1, 2010:

Kate Veh believes Kenai Peninsula residents can learn something about being a sustainable community from Ionia, the therapeutic eco-village located in Kasilof.

Veh, a founder of local environmental group Kenai Resilience, helped organize a tour of the community April 24.
“They are the most sustainable community on the Peninsula right now,” [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Saturday, May 1, 2010:
Fort Yukon could turn to wood-fired power to ease its reliance on diesel fuel. Tanana could install wind turbines and start using half as much fuel within a few years.
The Alaska Energy Authority published those scenarios and about 200 more, including cost estimates, this week. The report [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Tuesday, April 27, 2010:
Willie Hensley said this morning that Alaska, particularly its energy-starved rural communities, should think about bracing for tough times.
Oil development and federal financial aid have left Alaska with great per capita wealth. They’ve declined in recent years, and Hensley, an icon in modern Alaska Native history, told [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Friday, April 23, 2010:
Two prototype homes will be built this summer in remote Alaska villages to test construction methods and energy savings as researchers look for low-cost housing.
An eight-sided home meant to resemble traditional Yup’ik dwellings will be built in Quinhagak, a rainy Western Alaska coastal village where some homes [...]

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Friday, March 5, 2010, 4-5PM
Morris Thompson Cultural Center
Dr. Sven Haakanson Jr. discusses the knowledge and abilities of Alaska’s Indigenous people to design and construct complex equipment, housing and tools without the use of modern technology.
The efforts of those preserving this knowledge for future generations will also be discussed.
Click here for more information.

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From Alaska Dispatch, Tuesday, February 23, 2010:
On Tuesday, the village of Unalakleet, seated on Alaska’s northwest coast, celebrated the town’s newest energy force — turbine number six. The awakening of the high-tech wind catcher completes the installation of the town’s new wind farm, which has already saved the village tens of thousands of dollars since [...]

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