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Anchorage Recycles
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Bike to Work Anchorage
Plenty is still happening in the biking community even after Bike to Work Day. It's summer, after all!
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| Thank You to our Sponsors | Thank you to our recent sponsors and donors.
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Total Reclaim, Inc.
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Total Reclaim, Inc. Total Reclaim partners with organizations all over the state to provide recycling opportunities for electronics, fluorescent lamps and refrigerants, among other things. Visit them in the Huffman Business Park. |
| Green Star Staff |
Kim Kovol Executive Director Josh Sherwood |
What's New
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Green Star's new address, as of May 1st, is: 333 W. 4th Avenue, Suite 310, Anchorage, AK 99501.
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Member Benefits
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Green Star offers benefits to its members beyond just energy savings and waste reduction. Many local businesses offer product and service discounts to Green Star members. Visit our Member Benefits page to learn more. |
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EVENTS & REMINDERS
Find more events on Green Star's web calendar. Bike Fridays -- July 29 Visit Bicycle Commuters of Anchorage for the latest on when and where you'll find coffee and treats for bike commuters on the trail on the last Friday of the month all summer long. Alaska Renewable Energy Fair -- August 13 Save the date for this FREE annual event on the Anchorage Park Strip. It's an opportunity for people to come see for themselves how renewable energy and energy efficiency development is taking off across the state. The fair is a fun and informative event featuring live music, food, informational booths, children's activities and expert panels on renewable energy, do-it-yourself projects and energy efficiency. Visit REAP for more information. Alaska Materials Exchange. Don't forget to list your used items on the exchange or look there for items before going shopping. At any given time, you can find office furniture and supplies, chemicals, pallets, constructions materials and more. Visit AME for more information. |
GREEN STAR TIP SHEETS IN SPANISH
Guías de Consejos Green Star en español
Check out the Green Star Tip Sheets in Spanish. You'll find tip sheets on the following topics (the links below are the English versions).
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GREEN EVENTS GOING STRONG THIS SUMMER Green Star's Green Events program has been in existence for more than a decade and it's still going strong. Each year, about 40 organizations and events borrow bins to collect recyclables. Summer is always the big season for events and Green Star often distributes recycling bins to three to four events each weekend. Here are a few highlights this summer: Girdwood Forest Fair's recycling program was a success. Green Star's bins were placed throughout the event and AYEA (Alaska Youth for Environmental Action) students acted as cheerleaders for the program, standing by to congratulate fair-goers who recycled properly. Thanks to volunteer Glenda Denny for making sure it all happened! Spenard Farmer's Market is striving to make recycling a sustainable, season-long part of the market every week. Thanks to volunteer Cindy Shake for coordinating the effort and ensuring that volunteers are available to move the recyclables each week. 
| Here's what 25 pounds of recyclables looks like!
These were collected downtown on one Friday afternoon.
Look for bins on 4th Ave, between E and G St. |
Friday Downtown Recycling began over the July 4th
holiday weekend. Green Star staff, with the help of Anchorage Downtown Partnership, placed bins near Peratrovich Park and near the old City Hall on Friday afternoon to collect bottles and cans during the summer concert series. Attendance was low due to the holiday but
25 pounds of plastic bottles and aluminum cans were collected on Friday afternoon and all was quite clean and uncontaminated. Nice job Anchorage! Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council's Biennial Summit in Ruby, AK, will be a Green Event this year! Bins will be shipped out for the event on August 4-6. Thanks to AIH for providing discounted recycling bins and lids for Green Events. A big thank you to BP for being the primary sponsor of the Green Events program for the past decade.
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GREEN STAR HAS CHANCE AT WAL-MART GRANT Green Star has a wonderful opportunity to receive funding from one of the biggest retailers in the nation. The Walmart Associate Choice Program allows Walmart employees in Alaska to vote for their favorite charity to receive a grant of $100,000. The five participants for Associate Choice in the State of Alaska are the following:
· Alaska Blind Child Discovery · Alaska Native Heritage Center · Green Star · Kenai Peninsula Food Bank · Stone Soup Group |
MIDNIGHT SUN BREWING CO. GETS CANNED | Midnight Sun Brewing Company's new Sockeye Red IPA in cans.
The slogan on the can is "We Can Be Green." |
...Beer canned, that is. Midnight Sun Brewing Company, a Green Star member and host of our bi-annual member mixer, has introduced its Sockeye Red IPA in cans. Drinking beer from cans is more environmentally responsible in Anchorage's current recycling climate since aluminum is infinitely recyclable and glass isn't right now (but may be again in the future!). In fact, cans are more environmentally responsible in general since aluminum is lighter than glass, so transportation costs are reduced as well. So grab a six-pack of IPA in cans and be sure to recycle when you're done. |
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