by David Brooks | Jul 20, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
When it comes to climate change, the more you know, the more worried you get. Ignorance may not be bliss but at least it keeps you from lying awake at 3 a.m. fearing global feedback loops and tipping points. So it’s nice to learn that one of the state’s...
by David Brooks | Jul 19, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Last week I was buying some gaskets in my local hardware store when I noticed that I was the only person wearing a mask except for one of the clerks at the registers – and she had it below her nose. The last time I was there, just about everybody was masked. We’ve...
by David Brooks | Jul 19, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Vermont is way up there when it comes to solar power – it’s the only small state in the top ten list for number of installations per capita, alongside big folks like Connecticut and New Jersey – so local news stories have moved beyond “local...
by David Brooks | Jul 18, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By Lori Wright, UNH News Service: As climate changes, Northeast winters are warming more rapidly than other times of the year. While this may mean favorable growing conditions start earlier in the year, some ecosystems, such as perennial grasslands, can take better...
by David Brooks | Jul 17, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The state will soon be testing an automated method to warn drivers when another car is about to pull out into a busy street, and transportation officials want to know what you think about it even before it exists. The system, known as an Intersection Conflict Warning...
by David Brooks | Jul 16, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Concord residents have heard a lot in recent years about their gasholder, the handsome but crumbling brick building built to hold gas made from coal in the days before natural gas. (I’ve written at least a score of stories about it – here’s one.)...
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