by Rachel Ranelli | Dec 31, 2025 | Food Systems, Newsletter, Sustainability
By Catherine Owen Koning, Originally Published in The Monadnock Shopper News, Green Monadnock column, December 2025. In mid-December, we went ice-skating (and ice-kiting, for the adrenaline junkies among us) on Pool Pond in Rindge. The ice was over eight inches thick,...
by Rachel Ranelli | Nov 3, 2025 | Food Systems, Newsletter, Sustainability
By Catherine Owen Koning, Originally Published in The Monadnock Shopper News, Green Monadnock column, October 2025. Last week, while working with my Franklin Pierce students to harvest tomatoes, basil, flowers and other goodies from the campus garden in Rindge, we...
by Rachel Ranelli | Oct 15, 2025 | Electric Vehicle Charging, Electric Vehicles, Energy Efficiency, Newsletter, Photovoltaics, Recycling, Solar Energy, Sustainability
By Catherine Owen Koning, Originally Published in The Monadnock Shopper News, Green Monadnock column, September 2025. The lilacs in my yard have already lost their leaves, the hostas are wilting, and even some of the wetland plants look parched. The bean plants in my...
by Rachel Ranelli | Sep 4, 2025 | Electrical grid, Energy Efficiency, Photovoltaics, Solar Energy, Sustainability
Sam Evans-Brown, Executive Director of Clean Energy New Hampshire, delivered this encouraging speech at the Amos Fortune Forum in Jaffrey in July 2025. It is well worth a listen. Here is some more information about the talk and about Sam: From plummeting solar and...
by Rachel Ranelli | Sep 2, 2025 | Electric Vehicle Charging, Electric Vehicles, Energy Efficiency, Newsletter, Photovoltaics, Recycling, Solar Energy, Sustainability
By Rachel Ranelli, Originally Published in The Monadnock Shopper News, Green Monadnock column, September 2025. The Monadnock Sustainability Hub is excited to host its third annual Monadnock Clean Energy Fair, alongside Peterborough Renewable Energy Project (PREP)....