by David Brooks | Apr 23, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The nonprofit Northeast Resource Recovery Association has a very cool interactive map of where and how to compost in New Hampshire, including places with home pickup, farms that will take your food waste and town drop-off sites, usually at transfer...
by David Brooks | Apr 22, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Turning on renewables for the electric grid is great but what really needs to happen, to reduce future climate change, is for fossil fuel plants to turn off. That happened Easter Sunday when New England saw a record low “load,” the term for amount of...
by David Brooks | Apr 22, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Few activities get more public support than picking up litter from the side of the road. But to mark Earth Day, I’m about to argue that we shouldn’t do it. Wait – don’t go! Hear me out. This idea has been percolating in my head for a while and coalesced...
by David Brooks | Apr 21, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The craft beer industry is undergoing a shakeout after years of growth, so if you’re going to expand your small brewery it helps to have some help. Like 182 solar panels. “It’s the idea of sustainability but I would almost say it’s now survivability,” said David...
by David Brooks | Apr 16, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
As the Trump administration goes all-in with efforts to reinvigorate the nation’s use of coal, the owners of the region’s last coal-fired power plant say they still plan to eventually replace the Bow facility with solar panels and batteries. In a statement released...
by David Brooks | Apr 15, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
You don’t have to tell Alan Cattabriga that the invasive spotted lanternfly is a real pain. The senior manager at Millikan Nursery in Chichester has been out in the rain looking for the nasty bugs’ egg masses on imported plants more times than he cares to remember....
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