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By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

If a coat has a tear, she patches it up. If a bunch of bananas is going bad, she makes banana bread. That’s how 70-year-old Concord resident Jocelyn Jerry Wolcott consciously makes lifestyle changes to do her small part to protect the environment.“I...

By LAURA MAGZIS

Laura Magzis lives in Penacook. I have been concerned about climate change since the late 1980s when I first read about it in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. This was a year or two before I moved to New Hampshire, where I hoped to resume the winter...

By MILLIE LaFONTAINE

Millie LaFontaine lives in Concord. I missed the statewide bird count the weekend of February 11th and 12th. Thanks to David Brooks’ article in the Monitor this past weekend (“Dust off those binoculars”), I was excited to participate in the Cornell...

By ELIOT WESSLER

Eliot Wessler lives in Whitefield and works with a number of grassroots organizations in NH's North Country. Congratulations to the Concord Monitor for the recent article documenting the lax oversight of New Hampshire’s landfills. The article shines a...

By TERRY CRONIN

Terry Cronin lives in Hopkinton. In January, the live wire of energy market volatility loomed over the House Science, Technology and Energy (S, T & E) Committee hearings on New Hampshire’s electricity markets. The sessions were intended for committee...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

On a crisp winter morning in the scenic winter town of Conway, the odor of rotten eggs wafted through the air at the Lower Mount Washington Secure landfill, which overlooks the White Mountains.To mask the smell of decomposing waste and to keep pests...

By MILLIE LAFONTAINE

Millie LaFontaine lives in Concord. As we’ve bounced between periods of unseasonably warm and unseasonably frigid weather this winter, the effects of climate change are inescapable, even to those of us who wish to ignore that inconvenient truth. We’d...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. Awareness about the health, economic, and environmental costs of fossil fuel use aren’t the creation of liberal snowflakes, hippies, or communists, and the push back isn’t new,...

By REAGAN BISSONNETTE

Reagan Bissonnette of Concord is the executive director of Northeast Resource Recovery Association (NRRA). As dangerously cold winds continued to blow across New Hampshire over the weekend, transfer station staff braced for temperatures far below zero...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

For students at Hollis Primary School, diverting food waste from landfills is no difficult task. As many towns in New Hampshire struggle to get their residents to divert food waste, a program that was started through a grant fund at the school has...

By ERIC ORFF

Eric Orff of Epsom is a wildlife biologist. His observations have been documented for 20 years at nhfishandwildlife.com. I have been a watcher of nature all my life. Mostly right here in New Hampshire, and for the last half century I have been...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The blue truck backed up to the trash heap and unceremoniously belched out its contents.Next to its rear tires at the Nashua landfill was a pile of mattresses deposited before this truck arrived. Mattresses are illegal to throw out in Massachusetts,...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

For Alyssa McKeon and her husband, Luke Simon, their eco-friendly and sustainable store is one small way of contributing to the fight against climate change.Witching Hour Provisions in Hopkinton opened its doors to the community in December 2021. The...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A local man will soon find his story in a wilderness and environmental medical journal after surviving a gruesome attack from a presumably rabid beaver while swimming in a remote Franklin County pond two weeks ago.Mark “Pres” Pieraccini,...