by David Brooks | Mar 4, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
NHBR reports (read it here) on a couple of electric-car-related bills passed by the Senate, one of which “would require that the state Department of Transportation provide signs on highways alerting drivers to the availability of charging stations” among...
by David Brooks | Mar 4, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
A couple years ago, UNH Prof. Cameron Wake, whose work with glacier cores led him to concern about climate change a decade or more ago, gave a talk in which he urged some property owners along the New Hampshire seacoast to bail out now, before rising seas and...
by David Brooks | Feb 28, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Scientists from Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont have completed the first comprehensive assessment of weeds found on organic vegetable farms in northern New England and, you won’t be surprised to hear, they’re warning that changing climate will mean...
by David Brooks | Feb 28, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
When it comes to New England’s electricity grid, people’s attention might be grabbed by the big hardware proposals – transmission lines, power plants, gas pipelines and the like – but in the near term, the things that will change it are a lot less physical. That was...
by David Brooks | Feb 27, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The long saga of New Hampshire resident Steve Davidson’s attempt to resurrect a fabled piece of science fiction history has moved to the place that some say should have been its original launching pad: Kickstarter. “I don’t view that as a sustainable method of funding...