by David Brooks | Aug 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I’ll take any scrap of good environmental news I can find these days, so I jumped all over a report from SevenDays, the independent Vermont publication, that little brown bats in that state are showing signs of starting to adapt to white-nose syndrome....
by David Brooks | Aug 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The nation’s first real wind farm – multiple power-producing wind turbines feeding into the grid – was built in New Hampshire, on Crotched Mountain in Francestown in 1980. It was a research project from UMass-Amherst; I have written about it before...
by David Brooks | Aug 21, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Over my career I have gotten tired of publicity stunts by activists even, though I sympathize with their desire to draw attention to issues that are easy to overlook. So I was going to ignore a stunt in front of the New Hampshire State House – site of many...
by David Brooks | Aug 20, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
99 pints of blood in the bank, 99 pints of my blooda poke in my vein, a 6-minute drain100 pints of blood in the bank … Yes, I’ve hit the century mark in the draining-precious-bodily-fluid department. Don’t you want to hear more? Of course you do...
by David Brooks | Aug 20, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the main ways that freshwater invasive plants move from pond to pond and lake to lake is through boats – you do some boating Gorham Pond in Dunbarton in Concord and then move to Lake Sunapee, not realizing that you picked up some milfoil on your craft or...
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