Green Mountain Power, which covers most of Vermont, has been an innovative utility in many ways - partly because it's pretty small, which makes it cheaper to try stuff. Two years ago it began subsidizing Tesla batteries for customers' homes as long as they gave the...

As extreme precipitation events - meteorology-speak for "holy @#*@&@*&!!! look at it rain!!!!" - grow more common, it's possible that me may need to look at standards for how much water dams can pass without being overtopped. I've got a story sort of about...

New Hampshire is pretty old and pretty white, which is contributing to some interesting trends in COVID-19. Of the 199 deaths related to the disease so far, a whopping 89% have been reported in people over the age of 70. No deaths have been reported in anybody under...

What else can I say? Apparently it was defending the chicks in its nest, according to the story in the Bangor Daily News.

Two items came my way in the past 24 hours about institutions changing long-standing practices that involve plenty of hands-on interaction. The institutions couldn't be more different, but their struggles to cope with the COVID era are pretty similar. The Diocese of...

(Here is my column in this week's Monitor. Space constraints in print meant I didn't include the biggest-context part of the conversation: Toderian pointed out that climate change is making pandemics more likely, so changing cities to limit future climate change is...