by David Brooks | Mar 6, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The Alliance for Green Heat is an organization that supports burning wood for, as you might suspect, heat. Among other things, it sponsors an annual competition to build a better wood stove. This year’s competition, the fourth, has an added wrinkle: Part of it...
by David Brooks | Mar 6, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Out-of-state company wants to build a big energy project. Some people object, some celebrate. Media get involved. Fight ensues about state regulation versus town control. Meetings are held, money is spent, egos are bruised,...
by David Brooks | Mar 6, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Here’s some good news for New Hampshire fishers: In the past three years it has gotten easier for trappers to kill them. Wait, that’s not very scientific. Let me try again. Here’s some good news for New Hampshire fishers: In the past three years, capture-per-unit...
by David Brooks | Mar 5, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
In a recent column I lamented the lack of a makerspace in Concord, as part of a general discussion of the difficulty of creating a startup north of Manchester. Her presto, turns out there’s a group trying to start one. I’d like to take credit, but it was...
by David Brooks | Mar 4, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
NHBR reports (read it here) on a couple of electric-car-related bills passed by the Senate, one of which “would require that the state Department of Transportation provide signs on highways alerting drivers to the availability of charging stations” among...
by David Brooks | Mar 4, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
A couple years ago, UNH Prof. Cameron Wake, whose work with glacier cores led him to concern about climate change a decade or more ago, gave a talk in which he urged some property owners along the New Hampshire seacoast to bail out now, before rising seas and...
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