by David Brooks | Jul 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
As part of my 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 package, I mentioned a disc that Aldrin and Armstrong left on the moon which had microscopic messages from world leaders etched on it. It has a very tenuous New Hampshire connection – it was made by Sprague Electric in...
by David Brooks | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
This weekend’s miserable weekend didn’t quite cause New England to set a new record for electricity production: We maxed out Sunday at 23,917 MW, shy of the weekend record of 24,688 back in 2013, and well short of the all-time high of 28,130 MW on a...
by David Brooks | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Wild turkeys have become so common in New Hampshire since their reintroduction four decades ago, you wouldn’t biologists need any help keeping track. I see at least one virtually every time I drive anywhere. But New Hampshire Fish and Game would still like your...
by David Brooks | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I wrote today about an ambitious – maybe unrealistic – proposal for a carbon-negative development in southern New Hampshire, with as many as three dozen units and a farm. You can read about it here. The incentive, of course, is the climate emergency, an...
by David Brooks | Jul 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Biting deer flies have been a real pest – worse than usual – at my house this year. And since I’m a reporter, I get to whine about it in print! My story from the Monitor is here. It includes an entomologist’s comment that they don’t seem...
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