Archive for the Category ‘Stories’

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Fire, Knowledge, and Community: Jeff Ennenga on Leading Alaska’s Wildfire Resilience Initiative

When Jeff Ennenga moved to Alaska in 1995, he didn’t come to fight wildfires. After graduating from high school in...

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Supporting Alaska’s Clean Energy Future: Q&A with AVF’s Clean Energy Program Director

Shaina Kilcoyne leads the Clean Energy Program at Alaska Venture Fund (AVF), where she advances...

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Reality TV, a Gold Mine, and a Tribe: Native Nation Building in Action

The salmon, stickleback, dolly varden, trout, tomcod, and flounder in the rivers that flow into...

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Alaska Geothermal Innovators: Drilling for Heat, Not Hydrocarbons

With world-class geothermal potential and decades of drilling expertise, Alaska is uniquely positioned to lead in...

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Aywaa Fellowship Supports Athabaskan-Inupiaq Musician to Tell His Stories

Singer-songwriter Quinn Christopherson sat on a chair on the backyard deck he built at his...

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Kuicuat Sustainability Forum: Building Power Through Collaboration

“Sustainability was not in the Yup’ik language the way it is in English,” says Nalikutaar...

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Where Everyone Has a Role: Shawna Hotch and the Power of Local Leadership

Young people are cherished in Klukwan. That’s why Shawna Hotch moved back home to the...

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The Forests of Our Future

Is it possible to see the forest for more than trees? This is the question...

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Jenn Miller: Building Alaska’s Future With Solar

Jenn Miller and her company, Renewable IPP, are tripling Alaska’s solar energy production, proving the power of...

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Kodiak Archipelago Leadership Institute KALI in Kodiak | Photo by Ellen Carty
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Food Security, Economic Growth and Rural Leadership in Kodiak

The Kodiak Archipelago stretches 180 miles in the Gulf of Alaska. Its six villages lie...

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Harvest to Home

Fish Wheel, the nonprofit arm of The Kuskokwim Corporation (TKC), is developing a multifaceted solution...

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Sgaahl Siid Xyáahl Jaad/Marina Anderson
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Steeped in Tradition, with Eyes to the Future

Marina Anderson is a next-generation Indigenous leader building new models for community well-being and transforming...

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