by David Brooks | Jun 20, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A climate-action organization says it has crunched the numbers to estimate how much it would cost the U.S. to protect itself from “moderate” sea-level rise by 2040. Because we have a small coastline – about 18 miles, depending on how fractal you want...
by David Brooks | Jun 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The legislature has passed and Gov. Sununu has signed into law a bill to study tiny houses, specifically “issues associated with state and local permitting of tiny houses suitable for year-round occupancy, including both tiny houses on permanent foundations and...
by David Brooks | Jun 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
(I wrote most of this a year ago, but the state Department of Environmental Services tweeted about it this week as part of ocean environmental awareness, so let’s remind ourselves of this fun story.) On March 6, 2011, more than 4 million plastic disks were...
by David Brooks | Jun 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I’ve long been a fan of the Internet History Podcast which is, you’ll be surprised to hear, a podcast about the history of the Internet. The most recent episode (listen here) has a long interview with Chris Messina, who was involved in lots of interesting...
by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Unseasonably cold weather this year hurt New Hampshire’s maple syrup industry, which produced about 148,000 gallons of syrup, the smallest amount of syrup in five years. The data reflect another fact which might surprise people here: New Hampshire is not a major...
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