by David Brooks | Jan 15, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
As long as I’m using this excellent snowstorm as an excuse to avoid thinking of new articles – I mean, to rerun popular classics – let’s dust this one off from 2015. Winter brings many vital issues to the fore, perhaps none more contentious...
by David Brooks | Jan 12, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The city of Concord has a golden opportunity to show that it’s serious about its admirable clean-energy goals, but it’s not the sort of opportunity you might think of. Two huge mixed-use developments are proposed for the city: here’s a Monitor story...
by David Brooks | Jan 12, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
In Holyoke, Mass., on the Connecticut River, they’re replacing a closed paper mill with a factory that will make “clean cement.” If it lives up to hopes, that would be a big deal since making cement is a huge emitter of carbon. From the article in...
by David Brooks | Jan 11, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Self-storage units are all over the place – we sure own a lot of crap, don’t we? – and seem to be perfect places to put solar panels. Flat roofs, already ugly so nobody will complain, connected to the grid. The problem is that the units don’t...
by David Brooks | Jan 11, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
(I wrote this piece for the Concord Monitor. It’s not in the usual Granite Geek vein but certain readers might enjoy it anyway.) When you talk to old-time New Hampshire folks about “that funny guy who used to do the weather on TV,” there’s a split. In the...
by David Brooks | Jan 11, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Solar farm developer Monadnock Energy, presumably based somewhere around Peterborough judging from the name, is one of the winners of the first round of a contest by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office. Called the American-Made...
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