Green Star

The Alaska Forum, Inc was initially formed as an organization to support Alaska's premiere environmental conference, the Alaska Forum on the Environment. This widely recognized event is a statewide gathering of environmental professionals from government agencies, non-profit and for-profit businesses, community leaders, Alaskan youth, conservationists, biologists and community elders. The depth of our event agenda and diversity of attendees sets this conference apart from any other. The event occurs annually in February in an effort to provide a strong educational foundation for all Alaskan's and a unique opportunity to interact with others on environmental issues and challenges.

The Alaska Forum is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization to support the Alaska Forum on the Environment and our extended mission to promote effective cooperation, communication and education in Alaska. We now manage several grant projects to assist with Alaska Solid Waste issues and are now in the process of implementing a new program that will provide job opportunities for Environmental Technicians. Alaska Forum now supports the Green Star Program for Alaska.

We work with agencies, businesses and non-profit organizations in a spirit of cooperation to ensure that environmental issues and concerns can be addressed with an understanding of the diversity of perspectives and a fundamental educational background of the available science, knowledge and Alaskan experiences.

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As many as 1,800 people attend the Alaska Forum on the Environment to learn more about the environment and meet other Alaskans that work in the environmental field. The Planning Committee includes representatives from the: Environmental Protection Agency, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Department of the Interior, CH2M Hill, ConocoPhillips and many others. Please see our Leadership Page page for more information.

The Forum provides an opportunity for State, local, Federal, military, private, and Native leaders and professionals to come together and discuss the latest projects, processes, and issues that affect us here in Alaska.

The main Forum sessions will be Monday through Thursday. Keynote Events will be offered on Monday through Thursday . Friday of the Forum will support more focused sessions on topics that may take a full comprehensive day.

AFE offers a broad range of plenary sessions with nationally recognized keynote speakers. There are over 80 breakout sessions which are organized by subject tracks including: climate change, emergency response, environmental regulations, fish and wildlife populations, rural issues, energy, military issues, business issues, pollution prevention, contaminants, and others. In the past five years, AFE has offered technical sessions on a diversity of environmental issues such as; energy issues, alternative energy sources for rural villages, subsistence hunting, fishing, and gathering on federal lands, biological studies, bioterrorism, effects of climate change, Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, military environmental restoration, and tribal and federal government-to-government policies.