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By DAVID BROOKS

One of my favorite parts of hiking in New Hampshire is coming across a rushing brook or mountain stream. They are one of nature’s most beautiful creations. But we live in reality so I realize there are complications even when things are beautiful. For...

By DAVID BROOKS

As the region’s aviation community anxiously awaits the annual yes-or-no decision about whether the Alton Bay Ice Runway will open, here’s a tidbit to consider: Keeping Cessnas and Beechcraft from crashing through as they land isn’t why officials have...

By DAVID BROOKS

There are all sorts of green-energy reasons to admire what the UNH Durham campus is doing with electricity and heat but if that doesn’t move you, consider the green-eyeshade reasons.“It gives us budget certainty,” said Bill Janelle, associate vice...

By DAVID BROOKS

It says something about New Hampshire’s climate that the annual sustainability report from our largest electric utility discusses ice storms, tornadoes, floods and even microbursts, but doesn’t mention wildfiresIt says something else that this may...

By DAVID BROOKS

For years I have written enthusiastically about programs to remove the thousands of outdated dams in New England, freeing up rivers to let fish swim free and ecosystems recover.But then came the recent floods and the promise (or should I say threat?)...

By DAVID BROOKS

This column should have been written 10 years ago.In 2013 construction was about to start on Cape Wind, a 450-megawatt wind farm 7 miles south of Cape Cod. It was an exciting moment: European nations had been constructing wind farms in the North Sea...

By DAVID BROOKS

When I was in high school I was taught to use a slide rule, even though the venerable technology had recently been made irrelevant by calculators.The irrelevance didn’t matter to my gray-haired algebra teacher, who insisted it was still valuable to...

By DAVID BROOKS

It is a sign of the times, I’m afraid, that normal people like you and me need to seriously think about creating a password system for talking to our loved ones on the phone.This sounds ridiculous, I know: “Hi, Dad! Before we go further, what’s this...

By DAVID BROOKS

You’ve probably heard the saying popular in home-insulation circles that the cheapest energy is the energy you don’t use. The same goes for water.Leaky toilets and dripping faucets can waste an awful lot of water over the course of days and weeks....

By DAVID BROOKS

Have you ever thought “I’m just not a math person”? If so, how are you at fixing snowmobiles?The connection between backwood winter transportation and the quadratic equation may not be obvious to you, but some people would like to change...

By DAVID BROOKS

Far too often, a detailed analysis of any question produces the highly unsatisfying answer of “it depends.” So I’m delighted to say that today’s column comes down 100% on one side of this question:Do you really save energy by turning the thermostat...