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My Turn: Making a sustainable and responsible PFD
Published 8:03am Tuesday, September 22, 2015Announcement of the annual Permanent Fund Dividend is one of Alaskans’ most anticipated events of the year. Dividends are clearly important to Alaska residents and ... Read more
Sealaska looks to diversify revenue
Published 8:09am Sunday, September 20, 2015KETCHIKAN — As Sealaska Corp. reduces its timber program, the company is exploring new revenue streams, including a possible acquisition of a natural foods business. ... Read more
Sealaska looks to diversify revenue stream
Published 7:47pm Friday, September 18, 2015KETCHIKAN — As Sealaska Corp. reduces its timber program, the company is exploring new revenue streams, including a possible acquisition of a natural foods business. ... Read more
Raging fires are the new normal of climate change.
Published 2:30am Thursday, October 1, 2020
Sustainable Alaska: The role of humans in ‘natural’ disasters
Read moreHubbard likely out of service until Monday due to generator problems
Published 9:30pm Thursday, August 17, 2023
Newest state ferry suffers failure after carrying Buttigieg from Juneau to Haines.
Read moreOpinion: Another legislative session fails on the budget front
Published 10:30pm Thursday, April 27, 2023
A fragmented approach to a complex problem is wrong.
Read moreNew series seeks to empower people, provide tools for fighting climate change
Published 10:30pm Sunday, March 6, 2022
“The whole idea is providing people with tools and empowering people.”
Read moreAnd checking it twice: Officials share their holiday wish lists
Published 5:30am Thursday, December 23, 2021
Two front teeth didn’t crack the list.
Read moreOn the Trails: Why don’t some songbirds sing?
Published 1:30am Tuesday, November 3, 2020
These songbirds have no dawn choruses.
Read moreVisions of community in a time of crisis
Published 1:30am Thursday, April 9, 2020
As Alaskans, we indeed know how to support one another.
Read moreAt the tipping point: How do we stop cruise ship tourism from going overboard?
Published 3:00am Friday, January 3, 2020
How did we get here and are we doing enough to protect our town from tourism’s effects?
Read moreOpinion: Dunleavy kicks some cans with budget plan
Published 3:00am Friday, December 20, 2019
Were back to debating a 2015 fiscal plan.
Read moreSustainability in the summertime
Published 3:00am Friday, June 7, 2019
Time to learn, read and fish.
Read moreOpinion: The firecracker budget and Green New Deal
Published 3:00am Sunday, March 17, 2019
A warning against the shrinking marketplace of ideas in Alaska’s budget debate.
Read moreKayaking into a scientific adventure
Published 6:00am Friday, October 5, 2018
Is this a glimpse of the “new normal” for Endicott Arm?
Read more‘Mountains beyond mountains’: How human waste (that’s right, poop!) can be transformed into safe and useful resources
Published 2:00pm Friday, April 6, 2018I arrived in Juneau last summer with mixed emotions. I was excited to start a new life in Southeast, but I’d also just left behind ... Read more
Why are haunted houses scarier than climate change?
Published 4:41pm Thursday, November 2, 2017In sitting down to write this installment of the UAS Sustainability Committee’s monthly column, I’m taking a break from my preparations for the annual invasion ... Read more
Group organizes events around fish, food and the future
Published 3:23pm Friday, October 6, 2017Each academic year, the University of Alaska Southeast Sustainability Committee determines how best to serve the university community through outreach and educational events related to ... Read more
The Dangerous Unselfishness of Sustainability
Published 6:55am Friday, September 1, 2017We’re often told to protect what we love. But love has its limitations. Most people have difficulty looking after even their own self-interest very far ... Read more
Sustainability and Transboundary Rivers
Published 2:44pm Friday, August 4, 2017As a geologist considering issues of sustainability, I tend to ponder timescales that go far beyond that of a human lifetime. For example, many of ... Read more