Our precious Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area needs your attention. By this coming Friday. Please take five minutes, more if you have ’em, and send in your thoughts, ideas, comments, feedback and more to those planning for the next few decades of activity at the Mendenhall Glacier. Laurie Craig recently had a letter to the editor…
Category: Climate Change
Climate-change activists say you can’t fight global warming through individual actions. They’re wrong.
The following piece by Robert Frank of the Washington Post may be one that you can relate to. I certainly can! The peer pressure, or peer education, effects of our individual actions can be much much bigger than we expect it will be. And, much bigger than our individual action alone. Buying my Nissan Leaf…
A new way to profit from ancient Alaskan forests—leave them standing
In selling the carbon rights to this land, Sealaska is forgoing potential logging fees: The value per acre of selling their trees is currently only about 10 percent of what could be raised from a timber sale. Still, even here, carbon credits hold certain advantages. Unlike logging, carbon credit sales leave the forest for trapping,…
‘All-Electric’ Movement Picks Up Speed, Catching Some Off Guard
Rob Jackson, a professor at Stanford University who leads the Global Carbon Project…said that “dozens for sure, likely hundreds” of jurisdictions would pass gas bans and pro-electric legislation this year… As cities across the nation embrace electric power as a cleaner alternative to natural gas, developers are scrambling to keep up. Source: ‘All-Electric’ Movement Picks…
This small island is taking on a big problem — climate change.
Maine’s Mount Desert Island aims to go 100 percent renewable by 2030. From solar panels to bag bans, here’s how they’re making it happen. In Maine, some believe the solutions will come, not from laws, but from neighbors The power of the individual and the potential for very real and tangible change has not been…
New Year’s Resolutions
Resolutions for 2020 The Board of Renewable Juneau has some suggestions for New Year’s resolutions for 2020! Not all are directly renewable energy-focused ideas, but they will all help you to lower your carbon footprint, to be more conscious of the choices available to you, and allow you to set a constructive example for those…
Eco-Friendly Travel: An A to Z Guide to Not Killing the Planet When You Travel
There is much to think about this holiday season, from what to put in the stockings (my parents used panty hose – took hours to get through it!), to what to buy for your special somebodies, from how to prepare fondue for your locavore vegan son to how to lessen your impact when traveling to…
Secretive energy startup backed by Bill Gates achieves solar breakthrough – CNN
Game changer? Bill Gates seems to think so. He’s put a good pile of cash into this potential industry-altering power supply! Heliogen, a clean energy company that emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday, said it has discovered a way to use artificial intelligence and a field of mirrors to reflect so much sunlight that it…
Designing “CarFree” Cities to Welcome Millions Fleeing Rapid Sea Level Rise
Juneau’s Bill Leighty of The Leighty Foundation, recently presented at the 2019 American Society of Mechanical Engineers – International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Salt Lake City. Humanity’s attempts at “mitigation” of “climate change” — the suite of imminent and future dangers caused by unrestrained burning of fossil fuels and forests … will be…
“I’m a Climate Scientist Who Believes in God. Hear Me Out.”
For her stalwart commitment to quantifying the effects of climate change and her tireless efforts to transform attitudes, Canadian climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe was chosen as the 2019 United Nations’ Champion of the Earth for science and innovation. One of the world’s most influential communicators on climate change, Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist who studies…