by David Brooks | Dec 3, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
There are three ways of dealing with soils that have been contaminated by years of people and companies dumping toxin crud underground, the old “out of sight, out of mind” mentality. They are: Clean up the soil (often by baking it) and keep it there, which...
by David Brooks | Dec 3, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
When the state announced plans recently to launch the first-ever municipal bond backed by bitcoin, the news exposed a big hole in my knowledge base. Bitcoin isn’t the problem; it was the bond part that baffled me. I know about chemical bonds, town-meeting bonds to buy...
by David Brooks | Dec 2, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Winter has warmed a staggering 8 degrees Fahrenheit in Burlington, Vermont, between 1970 and 2025. That’s the most of 244 U.S. cities analyzed in a new report from Climate Central, a climate research group. Winters have gotten warmer in 98% of those cities. The...
by David Brooks | Dec 2, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
A Plymouth State grad who lives in Merrimack is running her own test, with state approval, of whether mushrooms can help clean up some of the PFAS around the closed Saint Gobain factory. New Hampshire Bulletin has a story (here it is): “The pilot will focus on...
by David Brooks | Dec 1, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The SpaceX rocket carrying a partly-UNH-built cubesat launched successfully Nov. 28. The photo above shows the various satellites crammed inside the rocket. Here’s part of a UNH write-up on the satellite: A team of 70 undergraduate students from the University...
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