In words and photos, rural Alaska residents reflect on their village’s sustainable practices
Galina, Alaska (AP) – in the Central Alaska countryside, a village is located in the midst of the conversion of clean energy that locals say will enhance savings, adopt flexibility and provide jobs. You want our gallina to curb its adoption On the costly diesel and import that when it is burned, it is one of the largest contributors to the emissions of the planet.
For nearly 10 years, the village began harvesting trees to supply the biomass factory by heating its loud rise, as it compensates for about 100,000 gallons (about 380,000 liters) of diesel annually.
The local Louden tribe encourages people to collect floating records from the Yukon River, which can be used in firewood and alignment with sustainable homes they build for members. Soon the 1.5 -megawatt solar farm will allow the city to stop its diesel engines and operate it on a 100 % clean and renewable energy on the sunny summer days, while storing the extra energy in a battery for later use. This will save 100,000 gallons annually.
The Associated Press spoke to the population about sustainable and renewable energy projects in their village. Here are some of their ideas:
Tim Calick, 46, Director General of Sustainable Energy for Galina Alaska
“We only guarantee that our decisive infrastructure has repetition and integrated protection in it, so that it does not turn each time, to tens of thousands of dollars in its wake.”
Jade Thurmond, 20 years old, a Galena resident works on the solar energy farm
“I am very excited when we use it and how we will reduce our diesel use. I think this will be very fun to see it and hear about it in the future, and know the following.”
Jake Bougrebinski, 54, the bulletin operator in the Louden and Driftwood Collector tribe
“Instead of having to earn money to pay the price of Barge or to buy materials, you spend your time on the river. For the young man, as a study, as a activity to build skills, it cannot be compared to.”
Brad Scoton, 54, a member of the Galina City Council
“What he did (the biomass factory) is stability (costs), and it has created a local workforce and a work base that we have never forgave. So it maintains the money used to go out within society and provide significant jobs for people.”
Will Kramer, 29, an applied mechanical coach at the Galina Academy for Internal Learning
“We are only in the whims of anyone else who wants to earn all the money from us to say and do it. The ability to fix these systems and integrate them into these societies, it restores freedom to societies.”
Phil Koontz, 74, retired environmental engineer
“It will be very difficult to live here without external resources. I see fuel most likely is the main external resource that we use. It provides most electricity, provides most of the transport, provides most heat. I don’t know what we will do without these things. One of the solutions I see is efficiency, and reduces the need to produce the same result, better complex homes, or better compounds.”
Aren Sumer, 19, a Galina resident helps to install the solar energy arrival
The guest “will reduce the use of diesel in the whole hand of the power plant, which will help us out.”
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