Going Green

Here at Pike’s we’re doing our best to reduce our impact on the environment. Here’s what we are doing:

Making electricity with solar energy – on the roof of the Copper Lodge, we’ve installed solar panels which should produce 21,000 kilowatts of power; we produce power even in the winter!

In conjunction with the Future Farmers of America and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, we have converted our greenhouse to a hydroponics based food growing business as a pioneering effort.  We have raised lettuce, strawberries and cherry tomatoes.  We pioneered the program last summer and we are expanding it in 2008.

We joined Green Star, a state of Alaska local energy conservation, for suggestions on how to reduce our energy footprint.  We’ve undertaken a number of steps from changing our light bulbs to more energy efficient ones to adjusting our driers to increase efficiency and reduce the dry time.  We’re using more environmentally friendly chemicals whenever possible and reducing paper in our business office.