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I became enamored with renewable energy and energy conservation when I went to architecture school, studied planning, designed energy-efficient houses, and designed and built a home for my family in Fairbanks. If the world had adopted these strategies thirty years ago, we wouldn’t be where we are now. But, the bottom fell out of the housing market, the price of oil fell to one dollar a barrel, and everyone lost interest in saving energy. My historic preservation work led to local and regional history to Ph.D. in US western history.
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Meanwhile, I wrote and self-published a few books. Gold Rush Women, Children of the Gold Rush, Gold Rush Dogs, and King Con: The Story of Soapy Smith, and Searching for Fannie Quigley. See my web page: https://hillsidepressalaska.com/
I have been around the publishing block a few times. I self-published Alaska Pioneer Interiors in 1985 and Catch and Release: the Insider’s Guide to Alaska Men in 2001, both before the era of e-books and print-on-demand, so it’s a little different this time. I also picked up the rights to my Gold Rush books and published them through More about me.
Why I wrote this book
I have been thinking about renewable energy and saving energy since the 1970s. When I built an energy-saving, superinsulated, passive solar house for my family in Fairbanks in 1986, I thought the energy revolution was about to arrive. But it didn’t. And I have been frustrated ever since.
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Like you, I got very excited when news of a potential Green New Deal was bandied, and it was vague enough that I began to imagine all the great things that could and should be accomplished. Mass transit, transit-oriented development, new net-zero housing for all, and microgrids would make power outages a thing of the past.
Then, politics intervened, and the Green New Deal began to recede into a future that seemed impossibly far off. What to do?
I consoled myself by writing Waiting for the storm and Alaska gold rush book, which seemed more fun to explore the issues than polemic, or series of essays, although I certainly admire those who have taken this path.
