Tag: New Hampshire

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  Real Bear Breaks Into Home to Rescue Stuffed Bear

  Homeowner Mary Beth Parkinson came home to quite a surprise, a black bear had been rifling through her kitchen before it fled the house taking a stuffed toy bear with it. The bear had entered her home through an unlocked door, helped

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  Flip Side of Local - New Hampshire Sees Opportunity In Food Self-Sufficiency

  University of New Hampshire researchers have analyzed the economic impact of their State's locally-produced food system. The good news: farm market sales - known as 'direct marketing' of food -

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  Winters Were Colder in Your Parents' Day: New England Trees Get 10 Days More Growing Season Than Pre-1970

  According

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  Creating Energy from Landfill Gas Is Far From Myth

  Video profile of University of New Hampshire Ecoline™ project. Video credit:UNH and Waste Management.The beginning of a new decade reminds us to also look back at the past 10 years to see how everything from daily tasks to new technologies have evolved.

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  Helly Hansen's New Ekolab Line is Clean and Durable

  If any of you have backpacked the Presidential Range and Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, you know that the weather can change in a hot minute. Over the past 20 years, we’ve hiked through hail, lightening storms, and

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  University of New Hampshire is First School in US to Run Off Landfill Gas

  A few months back we heard about Middlebury College's efforts to green their electricity and heating. Well, over at the University of New Hampshire they're

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  Wal-Mart To Help 20 State Capitals Save Money And Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions

  Wal-Mart has agreed to help US taxpayers take climate action. Over the next two years, they are sending energy audit teams to 20 State Capitol complexes to help save taxpayers money and help the environment...while the Federal Government equivocates

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  Mion's Floodgate Takes Recycling In Its Stride

  Two years ago when Mion footwear won an ecodesign award we described them as something "you might expect the Jetsons to wear on the weekends." And we wanted the company to be more overt in their green product design. With their new models they've

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  The TH Interview: Gary Hirshberg, CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm (Part Two)

  Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here

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  The TH Interview: Gary Hirshberg, CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm (Part One)

  Before Stonyfield Farm was a $325 million company, Gary Hirshberg was milking the cows and trying to get the bills paid. Now, as the largest organic yogurt-maker, he is fulfilling the original mission: make money and save the world. From milk cows to

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  The Hidden Costs of Roads

  Lloyd has called for sustainable and sound infrastructure. One way to start creating sustainable and sound infrastrucutre might be to show the actual costs of building a bad infrastructure. A new 'green roads program' at the University of New Hampshire

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  Finally: Environment Plays a Role in a Presidential Election

  For the first time in my lifetime the environment is a top-tier issue in a presidential race, as was clearly in evidence in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. It was next to impossible for a candidate to have any sort of press event

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  Contemplations On Obama's DeSmogBlog "Award," Blogging, And Presidential Politics

  DeSmogBlog has conferred a controversial award on US Senator and Presidential candidate Barack Obama: It's called the "2007 SmogMaker Award for blowing smoke on global warming." Joe Romm's reaction in Climate Progress is here: "DeSmogBlog owes Obama

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  Five Questions You Should Ask the Presidential Candidates

  This next week is all politics, what with today's Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primaries on January 8. Most Americans are probably already tired of the election coverage, but we're hoping people stick it out and ask the these presidential

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  Presidential Campaign Update: Al & Arnold At The New Hampsire Primary

  This is wonderful. A bi-partisan political storm is brewing over New Hampshire because Al and Arnold have found a clever way to inject serious climate discussion into the coming US presidential primary season. Timing could not be better, with the IPCC

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  Warming Temperatures Stunt Autumn Leaf Colors

  Tourists and residents in New England used to receive a spectacular display of color on the second October of every year. However, in recent years, the show has been a bit duller and a bit later than usual. The culprit? What else - area temperatures

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  Obama Calls for Cap-and-Trade

  Senator Barack Obama proposed on Monday a plan to decrease the United States' dependence on foreign oil―while fighting climate change―by creating an auction system that will require power companies and other polluting industries to pay for their

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  Field Guide to Eco-Friendly, Efficient, Effective Print

  Design like you give a damn with the second edition of Monadnock Paper Mills' how-to guide for creating more-sustainable print materials. A Field Guide: Eco-Friendly, Efficient and Effective Print, accompanied by luscious illustrations by the