by David Brooks | Aug 5, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Commuting is one of the biggest drawbacks to industrial society. Once people stopped working around their homes – mostly farming, but also small-scale businesses – they had to spend time going to and fro. The state occasionally analyzes where these...
by David Brooks | Aug 5, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The Union-Leader has a piece about $10 million from Stonyfield, the yogurt folks, to develop ways to improve agriculture so that it absorbs rather than emits carbon into the atmosphere. (You can read it here). The initiative will work to develop a new open-source...
by David Brooks | Aug 4, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I came across this gem of a sign alongside a lovely little brook near Keene. Brilliant.
by David Brooks | Aug 2, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
UNH has received the biggest NASA award in its history – close to $108 million – for a space-based instrument that will make observations of coastal waters to help protect ecosystem sustainability, improve resource management, and enhance economic...
by David Brooks | Aug 1, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Worcester, Mass., remains the nation’s biggest outbreak of tree-killing Asian Longhorn Beetles. The city and neighboring towns cut down more than 35,000 trees and established a 74-square-mile quarantine area where wood can’t be moved as part of a massive...
by David Brooks | Jul 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
For a while on Tuesday, July 30, there was more coal-fired electricity on the New England grid than power from solar panels and wind turbines, combined. (When I took the above screenshot, solar and wind each made up about one-ninth of the “renewables” pie...
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