by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
We’ve given up trying to bring the Atlantic salmon back to New Hampshire – decades-long programs on the Connecticut and Merrimack rivers were abandoned a few years ago because they weren’t accomplishing diddly-squat – but they’re still...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The first-ever inventory of community-owned forests in New Hampshire that was released last week included an interesting number: $146 million. This was the “economic value” researchers put on the 180,439 acres divided up among 1,691 parcels, each 10 acres or larger,...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
If you want to be terrified about living in your own house, may I suggest you attend a legislative hearing about right-to-repair laws. If the hearing goes as one did in Concord last week, you will learn from industry representatives that you can be killed or maimed by...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2019 | Newsletter
If you want to listen to me talk about this week’s Concord Monitor column regarding the right to repair movement – and you know you do – you have two choices! Who says the modern world isn’t wonderful? Choice 1: You can listen to me talk to...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Until sent me a press release about a company incentive used by two ice rinks in the N.H. Seacoast to install REALice systems (that goofy capitalization is the trade name) to save money: Ice rinks traditionally use extremely hot water to resurface the ice to remove...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A solar-and-battery mix from the national company Sunrun was included in the recent forward capacity auction held by ISO-NE, marking the first time it has been included along with power plants and demand response in figuring out whether we’re safe from brownouts...