by David Brooks | Dec 20, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Several times in my career I have attempted to explain why the shortest day of the year (the winter solstice, which is tomorrow) has neither the latest sunrise nor the earliest sunset of the year. Judging from subsequent reader questions, I haven’t had a ton of...
by David Brooks | Dec 19, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the issues with distributed energy, like solar panels, is that it’s hard to count because it’s – well, distributed. Even ISO-New England, the folks who run the six-state power grid and who have a great interest in knowing how many of these...
by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Foster’s Daily Democrat, the daily newspaper in Dover, has an interesting story (read it here) about something interesting in the brand-new Dover High School: It has no urinals in the boys’ restrooms, and no shared showers – they’re all...
by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Let’s face it: Salmon are never coming back to the Merrimack River. But don’t despair, you fans of fish with weird life cycles: Herring are doing so well that we might be seeing them in Concord again. Plus, shad aren’t doing too badly, either. And American eels, which...
by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2018 | Newsletter
Two big news items this week in the region’s attempts to moderate our complete and utter destruction of the planet: Leases to build offshore wind farms south of Cape Cod drew bids totaling $405 million, which is oil-drilling-platform levels of money. Story here....
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