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Yaakwdáat. 13 feet of rain annually. Diesel – $4.49 plus tax and service fees. Electricity – $0.55/kWh. Consider Raven. Southeast Alaska’s first known energy hero who, through his own unique brand of trickery, wrested enormous power from...
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Gunalcheesh for Wooch.een. (Thank You for Working Together!)
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REAP joins Alaska Sea Grant in celebrating the 2022 winners of the 25th Annual Tsunami Bowl hosted in Seward, Alaska earlier this month. The 25th Anniversary Theme – Climate Change: Ocean Science and Solutions. Team Locolithophores of Yadaa.at Kalé (Juneau-Douglas...
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Students are researching climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies for the annual Tsunami Bowl competition, including renewable marine energy. What do Earth’s oceans, climate and energy have in common? Students will share their answers to this and many other...
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Sealaska recently joined forces with Alaska Power and Telephone (AP&T) to boost the adoption of clean, safe efficient air source heat pumps to heat homes in communities served by AP&T. By adding a $500 rebate for shareholders to AP&T’s existing $500 heat...
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Alaska is a magical place. Beautiful, big and remote. Especially Taan, Sea Lion (Prince of Wales Island). In June 2021, I was lucky enough to tour this sprawling island as a part of REAP’s project with the Sustainable Southeast Partnership. And to see first-hand...
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Tlingit are called People of the Tides for good reason. Tlingit Aani (Tlingit Territory) boasts more than 18,000 miles of coastline all connected by ribbons of convoluted waterways woven between islands blanketed by primeval...
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This Earth Day, we pause to celebrate the curiosity, creativity and resilience of Alaska students as they navigated new and uncharted educational realms. The REAP STEM team was right there helping students rise to the challenge by providing a variety of hybrid hands-on and...
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It’s safe to say that most people want their work to make a difference. That is certainly true for the STEM education team at the Renewable Energy Alaska Project. We reach thousands of Alaskan students each year with our classroom STEM lessons visits, including our annual...
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In June, Kake took one giant step toward energy independence with the delivery of the final engineering plans and financial analysis for a biomass district heating system designed by the Oregon firm, Wisewood Energy – a firm with deep experience in Southeast and many...
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From towering totems to giant 60 foot cedar canoes to the architecturally elegant clan houses to the crackling fires inside them, perhaps no other indigenous society enjoyed more of what nature could provide than the Natives of the Pacific Northwest coast. They had trees....
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Teachers care about students and their learning – in large part because students are our hope for the future. A future with some big decisions yet to be made… It’s an ominous task and an enormous responsibility to prepare the next generation for the many...
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