Did you know that the Kodiak Island Borough has a junk vehicle program? It will cost you nothing to get rid of your junk vehicle. Just bring in the title to The Community Development Department in the Borough building and fill out an Agreement form. This program is for personal passenger vehicles, ¾ ton or less and must have four …

Sustainability should start in the home —–right where you live.To do your part at home, remember that as much as half of all the energy used in your home goes to heating and cooling.Making smart decisions about your home’s heating, ventilatingAnd air conditioning can have a big effect on your utility bills.Making smart choices in your immediate environment can help …

At Kodiak Island Brewing Company we care about our footprint. Our packaging is all reusable, and we recycle everything we can. We turn off our boiler between uses, as well as our glycol chiller that cools fermentations. We capture CO2, and conserve water and cleaner as much as possible. Thinking about energy consumption and waste processing helps the community, and …

Did you know that composting is gaining in popularity?In fact, composting at home will be just as commonplace as recycling aluminum cans is today.As land fill space becomes scarce and expensive, you can keep a lot of materials from reaching our local landfill by composting your yard and kitchen waste right at home or with neighborhood composting areas. Just by …

Did you know that there have been water shortages in Kodiak?In fact there have been times in Kodiak’s past where seafood processing, a mainstay of our local economy, has been curtailed due to a shortage of water in our reservoirs.Teach your family the value of water conservation at home by following this tip: When washing dishes by hand – and …

The key to energy conservation in the home starts with the little things.Did you know that computers, coffee-makers, toasters and other electric devices continue to draw power even when not in use.Standby power accounts for up to five percent of an average home’s total energy use.Turn off power strips, unplug your cell phone charger and check the kid’s rooms for …

These days, what is cutting edge technology today is old hat in just a few years. Every day Americans throw out more than 350,000 cell phones and 130,000 computers, making electronic waste the fastest growing part of the U.S. garbage stream.Improperly disposed of, the lead, mercury and other toxic materials inside e-waste can leak from landfills.Re-cycle your used computers, cell …

In the United States alone, we use 12 million barrels of oil each year just to make disposable plastic bags. Did you know that taking a reusable bag shopping with you can potentially eliminate an average of 1,000 disposable plastic bags over its lifetime?Bringing our own grocery bags to the store will help save the 100,000 marine mammals that die …

The largest percentage of debris on beaches around Kodiak Island is plastic bottles of all shapes and sizes with the majority of these being plastic water bottles.Plastic bottles take 700 years before they begin to decompose.It takes over 1.5 million barrels of oil to manufacture a year’s supply of bottled water. That’s enough oil to fuel 100,000 cars. Eight out …

In the United States alone, we use 12 million barrels of oil each year just to make disposable plastic bags. Did you know that taking a reusable bag shopping with you can potentially eliminate an average of 1,000 disposable plastic bags over its lifetime?Bringing our own grocery bags to the store will help save the 100,000 marine mammals that die …