by David Brooks | Jan 21, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Once again there are efforts in the legislature to get away from Daylight Saving Time by moving us into the Atlantic Time Zone and dumping the twice-a-year clock shift. A bill (HB567) would do it for New Hampshire as long as Massachusetts and Maine also do it....
by David Brooks | Jan 21, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a bill before the state Legislature that would designate a “computer algorithm” to draw our political boundaries. It’s similar to one introduce last year by the same legislator – I wrote about that effort one year ago. It went...
by David Brooks | Jan 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
From Dartmouth News Service: Dartmouth is seeking proposals to build a biomass energy heating facility and transmission system to replace the existing central heating system. The new system, estimated to cost more than $200 million, will change how heat is produced...
by David Brooks | Jan 17, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
This is a story that I wrote in 2016 and brushed up in 2017 … I’m going to write yet another version for the newspaper in anticipation of our first big snowstorm of 2019 this coming weekend – but you can read this now! Whenever we have a snowstorm,...
by David Brooks | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
They’ve rolled out a big solar canopy – solar panels over an outdoor parking lot – in Burlington, Vt., but what’s interesting is that the 156 kW system has two-sided panels. (Here’s an article describing that technology) From the press...
by David Brooks | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
It sometimes seems that every chemical ever used in every product ever made turns out to be toxic, which we only realize after it has spread throughout the world and made people sick. Wouldn’t it be nice to know how toxic a chemical really is before we start using it?...