by David Brooks | Apr 17, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Green Mountain Power, the utility that covers most of Vermont, has joined the ranks of utilities like Xcel Energy that are working toward 100 percent carbon-free electricity. It said it will target 100 percent carbon-free by 2025 and 100 percent renewables by 2030. To...
by David Brooks | Apr 17, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
(Yes, this is another post about UNH research involving lightning. But it’s different research!) Joe Dwyer, a physics professor at the University of New Hampshire’s Space Science Center who is known for his lightning research, helped to interpret data in a new...
by David Brooks | Apr 17, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
(In the original version of the story I called the restaurant 603Grill instead of Grill603 … <slaps forehead, pounds head on desk>) In the name of saving the planet, I ate two burgers on Saturday. No sacrifice is too great for journalism. One burger was,...
by David Brooks | Apr 15, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the great advantages of my job is that I sometimes get paid to answer questions which bug me. This article, which ran in Sunday’s Concord Monitor, is an example: The arrival of springtime means the start of the busy season for housing sales, but to some...
by David Brooks | Apr 15, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Last week I wrote a story about a culvert that collapsed in the city of Concord. As part of discussion with General Services, the generically-named city body that includes the street department, I asked a question: How many culverts does Concord have? A confession: I...
by David Brooks | Apr 13, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
As I have noted before, research indicates that mowing your yard every other week instead of every week can help native pollinators and bees. But I also noted that this goes against advice to reduce tick populations in your yard, because ticks like longer grass...
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