by David Brooks | Oct 30, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Ticks often live in litter that falls to forest floors such as leaves and thrive in thick grass which protects them from drying out (a big danger for these flat beasts). Prescribed burning it seems like a reasonable tool to reduce both forest floor debris and...
by David Brooks | Oct 27, 2022 | Blog
Electric school buses make a ton of sense. There’s less tailpipe pollution while they’re idling in the schoolyard or waiting for a line of 7-year-olds to scramble aboard, operating costs are much less, and there are vehicle-to-grid possibilities with these...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The race for New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate seat will be decided by a different group of voters than when Sen. Maggie Hassan was first elected, because more than one-quarter of people eligible to cast ballots were either too young or didn’t live here in 2016. That’s the...
by David Brooks | Oct 25, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a Concord community that calls Halloween “gate night” for reasons that date back a century – it used to be a common appellation because of the popularity of stealing people’s garden gates as the trick part of trick-or-treat. It...
by David Brooks | Oct 25, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
I wrote a profile of a nearby dairy farm that has installed robot milkers: “With a combination of hydraulics, lasers, electronics and suction, the $420,000 setup determines which cow has entered the stall to feed via the RFID chip hanging around her neck, cleans...
by David Brooks | Oct 25, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The spike is the price of electricity indirectly caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which sent natural gas prices soaring, as well as the rise in the price for the same reason of heating oil, which heats somewhere around half of northern New England homes...
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