by David Brooks | Jul 1, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
A few weeks ago a reader suggested I write about beech leaf disease, but I said it wasn’t that big a deal. Then I went for a walk in the woods and was astonished – but not in a good way. “Our beech has been dealing with bark disease for so long they’re already in...
by David Brooks | Jul 1, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through June 29. Iron Nanoparticles and Methods of Production UNIVERSITY OF NEW...
by David Brooks | Jun 19, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
An online news source with the clumsy name The Conversation has a long, well-reported piece on why ticks carry so many bad diseases. You can read it here. Contained in every bite of this infuriating, insatiable pest is also a trove of social, environmental and...
by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Not everybody is crazy about utilty-owned solar; they fear the utilities will favor their own setup and squash independents. Nonetheless, let’s celebrate a just-barely-under-the-state’s-silly-5MW-net-metering-limit array, via a Unitil press release: Unitil...
by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Something weird is going to happen Saturday in Concord: It won’t rain. Not raining on Saturdays didn’t used to be weird, but then The Spring of 2025 arrived with orders to dampen our weekends. Dampen them, it did. According to the National Weather Service, the gauge...
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