You want to know why China stopped accepting most of the plastic and "fiber" (industry term for paper and cardboard) that we shipped them, causing our recycling costs to soar and the industry to freak out? Various geopolitical factors no doubt were a factor, but a big...

Eversource and officials with UNH and the town of Durham say they're planning a microgrid in that college town that bring all the benefits that such grids can bring, including resiliency, shaving of peak energy costs and cleaner power. Unlike a similar announcement...

This is a breaking story as I am putting together the newsletter, and more details may emerge. This news is good for the patient who doesn't have measles, but it's unfortunate for those of us trying to prevent anti-vaccine foolishness from deluding the public. One of...

What is it with the little towns on the Connecticut River west of Keene? First Chesterfield sets up the state's first municipally-supported broadband network with Consolidated Communications, now its neighbor Westmoreland is the target of an unusual 'non-wires...

An intriguing paper in Nature argues that the usual method of getting people into environmental activism by doing little things first (turn out that light! take a shorter shower!) is actually counter-productive for getting real change. Across six experiments,...

In the course of my career I have written several articles when an animal (squirrel, hawk, something else that I forget) gets into an electrical system and blows out power to thousands of people. Here's an example. Spring is prime animals-screw-up-power season, so...