Newsminer: Local tour puts energy-efficient businesses, ideas on display

From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer April 28, 2008.

The tour was part of the Sustainable Living Conference organized last week by a student task force at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The conference came six months after a visiting state housing official estimated the average home in Fairbanks could improve its energy efficiency by about 35 percent. The Department of Energy, meanwhile, has estimated people in the United States consume six times more energy on average than the rest of the world.

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