The Monadnock Food Co-op of southwestern NH announces six grant recipients for the 2022 Monadnock Food Co-op Farm Fund: Picadilly Farm, Partners’ Gardens, Grow a Pear Farm, Flying Cloud Dairy, Brookfield Farm, and Green Wagon Farm. The Farm Fund proudly … Continue reading →
Books reviewed by Janis Petzel, MD Meat Me Halfway—How Changing the Way We Eat Can Improve our Lives and Save Our Planet by Brian Kateman. Prometheus Books, Guilford, CT 2022. Farming for Our Future-The Science, Law and Policy of Climate-Neutral … Continue reading →
Larry Plesent Hormones are chemical messengers that signal cells to do things. Humans and all animals, plants, fungi and even bacteria produce similar hormone messenger molecules. Hormones tell our bodies to change as we go through life’s stages and respond … Continue reading →
David Fried I go out for fast food almost every day. I go out to the garden. Here by May 24th the asparagus has grown about two feet tall in the last five minutes. I snap them off low, just … Continue reading →
Michael J. Daley The typical “solar farm’ with large swaths of – to some – beautiful glistening blue solar panels may look like a monolithic ground cover when glimpsed from the highway, but in fact there is ample open space … Continue reading →
Janis Petzel, M.D. How did we go from tens of thousands of years of simply collecting pitch from naturally occurring tar pits, to the mass extraction and production of petroleum products in the past 150 years? It may have been … Continue reading →
Wallace-Brill Home Wes Golomb and Bob Irving Our society’s well-being is dependent upon our ability to move from a fossil-fuel economy to an economy based on sustainable energy. A path to this goal can be described as the “three-legged stool” … Continue reading →
The Cement Industry’s Decarbonization Plan Is a Good First Step Matt Power Uncoupling concrete use and production from the tangled chain of materials and processes required to make it will require more than good intentions. As recently as September 2021, … Continue reading →
G.E.T. Staff During April’s Better Buildings by Design conference, two businesses were recognized for Efficiency Vermont’s Best of the Best (BOB) awards from the Efficiency Excellence Network (EEN). Farnum Insulators was recognized as the EEN Partner of the Year. Maple … Continue reading →
Joe Emerson We all know there is a considerable lack of affordable housing in the U.S. and that addressing it effectively has been challenging. Now that many states and municipalities are altering their zoning to allow accessory dwelling units (ADUs), … Continue reading →