by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Timber tax is a pretty big deal in many New Hampshire towns, especially smaller ones in the rural areas. It’s basically a sales tax on trees that have been harvested – cut and sold for timber – and while it’s not a majority part of income for...
by David Brooks | Apr 1, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Compost is useful as fertilizer but it also generates heat, and heat can be useful. Therefore, compost can be doubly useful. That bit of reasoning has been in play at UNH’s Durham campus since 2013. At the university’s Organic Dairy Research Farm, compost manure...
by David Brooks | Mar 31, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
I am no fan of the GOP agenda of the state’s current legislature but that doesn’t mean I disagree with everything they do. Consider HB387 passed by the New Hampshire House on March 20, makes releasing 20 or more balloons into the air a violation offense....
by David Brooks | Mar 31, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Canary Media has a story about the uncertain status of hydropower from Quebec coming to New England. The whole story is here. “At a time of year when Canadian hydropower typically supplies up to a tenth of New England’s power, the region has instead gone almost...
by David Brooks | Mar 31, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
We had an issue with patents earlier this month so we’re re-running all of March. You may have seen some of these previously (Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following...
by David Brooks | Mar 27, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
A nice photo package (see it here) from Dartmouth College about a test to increase carbon capture in soils: Most carbon in soil is eaten by microbes and respired back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, contributing to global warming. As part of her culminating...
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