by David Brooks | Aug 11, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
When the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire sends out snail mail, the envelopes are often covered with old aviation-related stamps, as shown above. The museum buys air mail stamps in bulk from dealers at a discount – “sometimes as much as 50 percent,”...
by David Brooks | Aug 10, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Vermont is in the process of mandating that no food waste go into landfills. That sounds extreme, but the Washington Post reports (here) that South Korea does it, nationwide. When they were first implemented, South Korea’s food waste policies were met with pushback...
by David Brooks | Aug 9, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
A former paper mill in Lincoln, Maine, will host a large scale battery storage facility partially funded with a $147 million federal grant. Story from Maine Public is here. Lincoln is way up there – past Bangor en route to Mt. Katahdin. Two things of geeky...
by David Brooks | Aug 8, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s been 15 years since bitcoin came on the scene and there still isn’t any legitimate use for it, which says something very unflattering about the whole idea of cryptocurrency. Illegitimate uses, on the other hand, are all over the place. That...
by David Brooks | Aug 6, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Today’s column, I’m happy to say, involves good news about the environment. It’s not huge news, admittedly, and it’s not quite as exciting as I thought it was going to be, but in today’s world, I’ll take anything I can get. The story concerns a wetlands plant called...
by David Brooks | Aug 6, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The Google-is-a-monopoly ruling by a judge is a big deal, although how big remains to be seen. New Hampshire is one of the plaintiffs. If you are writing the press release for your boss, the attorney general, this is how you’d put it: Concord, NH –...
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