Sustainable North

From the Washington Post on Saturday, January 24, 2009: Frugality is finally showing up in new home developments. Although the number of new single-family houses sold this year will probably be down about 68 percent from the peak of almost 1.3 million sold in 2005, there will still be about 420,000 households buying new homes [...]

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From www.thegreenguide.com (sponsored by the National Geographic Society), retrieved on Monday, January 26, 2009. A day-by-day guide to “greening” your life: You could decide to lose weight—again—or this year you could resolve to lighten the load you leave on the planet. To help, we’ve outlined a series of small changes that add up to big [...]

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From the Washington Post on Monday, January 26, 2009: President Obama today declared a national goal of ending dependence on foreign oil and promised new U.S. leadership in the fight against global warming as he announced a series of steps aimed at making American cars more fuel efficient and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In remarks [...]

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From npr.org on Wednesday, January 21, 2009: With awareness of global warming rising, going “green” and reducing one’s “carbon footprint” have become pop culture catchphrases. But addressing climate change on a global, governmental level is still a matter of heated debate. With potentially staggering costs involved, are efforts to make major reductions in carbon emissions [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on Monday, January 19, 2009: The first proposed grants from a $100 million state renewable energy fund would boost wind farm efforts in Healy and Delta, as well as other local projects. The state released a list of 77 projects covering all regions of Alaska Friday for consideration by a [...]

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From the transcript of a video interview with Carol Browner, proposed assistant to the president on energy and climate, the Washington Post on Thursday, January 15, 2009: LR: What Bush initiatives do you have your eye on to roll back? CB: Unfortunately, the list is rather long. . . . The Supreme Court ruled almost two years [...]

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From The Hill, published in May, 2008, and retrieved on Monday, January 11, 2009: Together, China and the United States produce 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Their actions to curb or expand energy consumption will determine whether efforts to stop global climate change succeed or fail. If these two nations act to curb [...]

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From the Washington Post on Tuesday, January 121, 2009: President-elect Barrack Obama’s nominee for Energy secretary, Steven Chu, walked a fine line today between his strong views on the need to combat climate change and the concern of some senators about Chu’s past criticism of coal use, endorsement of gasoline taxes and tepid embrace of [...]

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From usgbc.org, retrieved on Wednesday, January 14, 2009: In ongoing talks with the transition’s energy and environment team since November, the U.S. Green Building Council has advanced vital green building policy priorities that will simultaneously create millions of green-collar jobs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and advance proven opportunities to deliver greener, more energy-efficient buildings. Already, [...]

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From the New York Times on Wednesday, January 14, 2009: “From the manufacturers’ standpoint, it’s pretty serious,” said Bill Stewart, president of SolarCraft, a California installer, in a conversation with Green Inc. Until last summer there were still shortages of solar modules (which in turn were due to shortages of the polysilicon material they are made [...]

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