by David Brooks | Jan 12, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
There are lots of good reasons to compost your food waste, but here’s one I hadn’t thought of: a dearth of dirt. “Topsoil is getting harder and harder to find,” said Marc Morgan, solid waste manager for the city of Lebanon, who needs topsoil to cover the city landfill...
by David Brooks | Jan 12, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the most intriguingly successful inventions of my life has been Post-It Notes. The idea that glue which doesn’t work very well could create an important product was counter-intuitive and bravo to the folks at 3M who pursued it. So it’s interesting...
by David Brooks | Jan 12, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
A report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development about COVID-19 makes clear the obvious: Vaccines were developed in record time because scientists around the world are good at rising above nationalism, and they also rose above commercial interest....
by David Brooks | Jan 12, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The developer of a high-voltage DC transmission line through Maine that would carry 1,200 megawatts of hydropower down from Quebec says access road plowing started Monday and construction will around Jan. 18. This is the line that was proposed after New Hampshire shot...
by David Brooks | Jan 11, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a very good chance that you, loyal reader, won’t get vaccinated against COVID-19 for a couple of months, or maybe longer. My advice is to take a deep breath and accept it. We have reached the beginning of the end of this pandemic but there’s a long, difficult...
by David Brooks | Jan 11, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Carrie Deegan of the Forest Society has a column in the Union-Leader today talking about a study in New Hampshire at a long-gone town called Monson (divvied up between Hollis and Milford) for a technology to determine how long rock structures have been buried....