Fairview Ballot Box Bash to Encourage Voting
March 21, 2018 – Anchorage Press On Thursday, March 22, Anchorage Park Foundation, The Alaska Center, and Anchorage Community Land Trust invite Fairview neighbors to a Ballot Box Bash at Fairview Recreation Center to build community around the new Vote By Mail system. Festivities will include a dance performance by Rhythm of Light, Polynesian Reggae music by H3, food, and …
AYEA community leaders support HB 199
March 8,2018 – The Cordova Times House Bill 199, a work in progress before the House Special Committee on Fisheries, has won the support of Alaska Youth for Environmental Action, a program of the Alaska Center Education Fund. Twenty-six young community leaders from across the state were to deliver a letter to Juneau on March 9 in support of “The …
ABB to install ‘plug-and-play’ grids in Alaska
March 7, 2018 – Wind Power Monthly UNITED STATES: Swiss grid specialist ABB has signed an agreement with a local utility in west Alaska to install two micro-grid systems in “last frontier” towns. The villages of Deering and Buckland are home to around 600 people — mostly indigenous Inupiaq people. ABB said the villages had sourced wind power, but its …
In Western Alaska, there’s water where there should be ice
February 26, 2018 – Alaska Public Media It’s been a record-breaking winter in Western Alaska. Temperatures in parts of the state have reached more than 40 degrees above normal, and sea ice cover in the Bering Sea has dropped to levels never before recorded. Last week, social media across the region lit up as residents posted photos and videos of …