by David Brooks | Jun 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Tiny Chesterfield, N.H., as regular readers know, floated a loan so it could get fiber-to-the-home installed by Consolidated Communications, the local phone company. This isn’t “municipal broadband: as the topic is often understood because the system is...
by David Brooks | Jun 24, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Not long ago everybody was saying that electric aviation is unfeasible for anything more than the smallest private planes because of weight-to-power limitations of batteries and electric engines. Maybe not. Cape Air, an independent regional airline that flies to...
by David Brooks | Jun 24, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
UNH research evaluating the relative attractiveness to pollinators of new varieties of old standards such as purple coneflower, Echinacea purpurea, a common garden perennial. Photo by Cathy Neal/UNH Pollinator gardens are a very hot topic – partly, I suspect,...
by David Brooks | Jun 20, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Check the above graphic from the Energy Information Agency showing estimated total energy use in New Hampshire. You probably didn’t think that almost two-thirds of our energy comes from burning oil, did you? That’s because I, like most places, talk mostly...
by David Brooks | Jun 20, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A climate-action organization says it has crunched the numbers to estimate how much it would cost the U.S. to protect itself from “moderate” sea-level rise by 2040. Because we have a small coastline – about 18 miles, depending on how fractal you want...
by David Brooks | Jun 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The legislature has passed and Gov. Sununu has signed into law a bill to study tiny houses, specifically “issues associated with state and local permitting of tiny houses suitable for year-round occupancy, including both tiny houses on permanent foundations and...
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