Monday, April 6, 2009
Earth Day Celebration April 18, 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Juneau Farmer's Market & Local Foods Festival
Planning is underway for the 2nd annual Farmer's Market & Local Foods Festival to be held August 29, 2009 at the Juneau Arts & Culture Center. Consider joining the planning group, or plant an extra plot of veggies this year and bring them to sell. Interested in offering your expertise in a mini-seminar setting, or bringing your commercial business of local eating and growing to the market? We want to hear from you! Reply on this blog and we'll be in touch!
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Seattle Bans Styrofoam
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Ban the Bottle
Friday, February 20, 2009
See the film, EATING ALASKA, March 1 at the JACC
Many thanks to Ellen Frankenstein of Sitka for recently sharing her new documentary Eating Alaska with Juneau-ites. If you missed this film about the choices and challenges we face in eating locally, you can check out the web site www.eatingalaska.com. Stay tuned for future showings. This movie is an official selection of the Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival.Thanks also to Amanda Rutledge at Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, and the table participants who shared information about growing, harvesting, hunting, fishing, etc. in Juneau.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Juneau Commission on Sustainability - UPDATE
- Energy and Greenhouse Gases
- Food Security
- Community Outreach
Other initiatives that the Commission is exploring include:
- A revolving loan program for landlords and businesses to implement energy-efficient improvements to apartment buildings and commercial structures;
- An "Energy Card" to receive a sales tax exemption on energy-efficient products; and
- Legislation to provide a municipal property tax credit on energy-efficient improvements.
On the Food Security side, the Commission is planning the 2nd annual Farmers Market ,August 29, 2009. This year, the Commission is applying for a grant from the Division of Agriculture to help expand the Farmer's Market. Let us know if you'd like to help organize, or if you have ideas for mini-seminar topics.
Under Community Outreach, the Commission builds partnerships with other organizations in Juneau to further sustainability projects (eg participant in 2008 Earth Day forum), maintains this blogsite, puts on public events such as the Re-Energizing Juneau Forum (May 2008), and engages in general promotion via radio and the press. In the future, the Outreach committee hopes to start a recognition program to showcase the sustainability efforts of local businesses.
To get involved in any of these projects, come to the next Juneau Commission on Sustainability meeting, March 4 at 5:15 pm in the downtown Library conference room.

