Alaska community action
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Alaska.
News[edit | edit source]
Veterans of Alaska’s Oil Industry Look to Blaze a Renewable Energy Pathway in the State, insideclimatenews.org (Oct 07, 2024) - Young Alaskans sue state over fossil fuel project they claim violates their rights, theguardian.com (May 23, 2024)
Networks and sustainability initiatives[edit | edit source]
- Alaska Center for the Environment
- Alaska Conservation Foundation
- Office of Sustainability, University of Alaska Anchorage
- Office of Sustainability, University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Rivers Without Borders
- Sustainable Alaska, Rice University's Baker Institute
Food activism[edit | edit source]
Alaska Community Agriculture, Farmer's Markets - Alaska Permaculture
Community energy[edit | edit source]
- Renewable Energy Alaska Project
- Map of Renewable Energy Installations, alaskarenewableenergy.org
- Energy & Environmental Data for Alaska
Sustainable transport activism[edit | edit source]
Wikipedia: Hiking trails in Alaska (category)
Cycling activism[edit | edit source]
Wikipedia: Bike paths in Alaska (category)
Biodiversity[edit | edit source]
Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center
Coasts[edit | edit source]
Alaska Marine Conservation Council
News archive[edit | edit source]
2014-2018
- Alaska can save its economy and environment by investing in renewable energy. What are we waiting for? Feb 22, 2018...[1]
- What rural Alaska can teach the world about renewable energy, Mar 6, 2017...[2]
- Alaska's quest to power remote villages - and how it could spread clean energy worldwide, August 14, 2015...[3]
- In rainy Southeast Alaska, a village experiments with solar power, December 29, 2014...[4]
- Ice loss sends Alaskan temperatures soaring by 7C, October 17, 2014...[5]
- Worlds First Airborne Wind Turbine to Bring Renewable Energy and WiFi to Alaska, March 25, 2014...[6]
References
About Alaska[edit | edit source]
Alaska ( ə-LASS-kə) is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside Hawaii. Alaska is also considered to be the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost (the Aleutian Islands cross the 180th meridian into the eastern hemisphere) state in the United States. It borders the Canadian territory of Yukon and the province of British Columbia to the east. It shares a western maritime border, in the Bering Strait, with Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The Chukchi and Beaufort Seas of the Arctic Ocean lie to the north, and the Pacific Ocean lies to the south. Technically, it is a semi-exclave of the U.S., and is the largest exclave in the world.
Alaska is the largest U.S. state by area, comprising more total area than the following three largest states of Texas, California, and Montana combined, and is the seventh-largest subnational division in the world. It is the third-least populous and most sparsely populated U.S. state; however, with a population of 740,133 as of 2024, it is the most populous territory in North America located mostly north of the 60th parallel, with more than quadruple the combined populations of Northern Canada and Greenland. The state contains the four largest cities in the United States by area, including the state capital of Juneau. The state's most populous city is Anchorage, and approximately half of Alaska's residents live within its metropolitan area.
The indigenous population of Alaska is proportionally the highest of any U.S. state, at over 15 percent. Close to two dozen native languages are spoken, and Alaskan Natives exercise considerable influence in local and state politics.
