by David Brooks | Oct 27, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
A school is just about the biggest thing that local governments build and operate, so if cities/towns are going to help reduce our climate damage they’re going to have to take a different approach to building these schools. I did a deep-ish dive on this topic...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
University of New Hampshire scientists are sharing two grants totaling nearly $13 million to investigate supplementing dairy cow diets with seaweed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve milk quality and animal health. New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The energy transition has room for plenty of debate about what’s good and what’s bad (nuclear! hydrogen! beaming power from orbit!) but in New Hampshire the poster child for these arguments is biomass. Burning wood for heat and power has been the center of economic,...
by David Brooks | Oct 25, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
A massive supply of underground lithium has been found in western Maine, reports The Maine Monitor, but there are complications: The richest known hard rock lithium deposit in the world lies a few miles northeast of the ski slopes of Sunday River … Yet lithium...
by David Brooks | Oct 25, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
This is a press release from UNH, which is understandably proud. I don’t know the details of the rating system but I have to assume that ECOLine, the combined-heat-and-power system using landfill gas which powers much of the Durham campus, is a big part of their...
by David Brooks | Oct 25, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
On Oct. 24, the state highway department announced the first snowfall on the Kancamagus Highway, which gives me an excuse to point again to my 2019 story explaining how the state collects roughly 4,000 small trees each year and attaches them to road markers on some...
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