by David Brooks | Jun 24, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
UNH research evaluating the relative attractiveness to pollinators of new varieties of old standards such as purple coneflower, Echinacea purpurea, a common garden perennial. Photo by Cathy Neal/UNH Pollinator gardens are a very hot topic – partly, I suspect,...
by David Brooks | Jun 20, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Check the above graphic from the Energy Information Agency showing estimated total energy use in New Hampshire. You probably didn’t think that almost two-thirds of our energy comes from burning oil, did you? That’s because I, like most places, talk mostly...
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...
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