by David Brooks | Jul 16, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
When you operate devices to measure pollution all over New Hampshire, you find a lot of bad news, like ozone pollution from cars in summer and smoke from woodstoves in winter. But sometimes you find good news, too. “Carbon monoxide used to be an issue in urban areas –...
by David Brooks | Jul 16, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: A new ocean-going research vessel is on the horizon for scientists at the University of New Hampshire that will expand their capability to track ocean currents, conduct seafloor studies, and further research on food web dynamics and fish...
by David Brooks | Jul 13, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Green Mount Power, the statewide utility in Vermont, is ahead of the curve on many Grid 2.0 technologies – partly because it’s so small (just 265,000 residential and business customers) that it can “pivot” quickly, partly because its customers...
by David Brooks | Jul 13, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
On most weeks (although not this one, due to scheduling issues) I talk with NHPR’s Peter Biello about my column in the Concord Monitor. Since the listening public can’t get enough of my mellifluous speaking voice, at The Monitor we’ve started an...
by David Brooks | Jul 12, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Remove that aluminum foil from your head and wrap it around your key fob, folks – that’ll protect it from being used by car thieves in a way that won’t be done by potato chip bags, as I found out last week . You want to know more? Check out the...
by David Brooks | Jul 10, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
This is my column, which ran Tuesday July 10 in the Monitor. By coincidence (or, rather, because multiple reporters get story ideas from obvious phenomena like a wicked bad heat wave) a couple of major outlets ran similar analysis later in the week, including Inside...