by Rachel Ranelli | Jul 1, 2025 | Community Power NH, Community Solar, Energy Stories, Photovoltaics, Solar Energy, Solar Energy
By Patsy Beffa-Negrini, Originally Published in The Monadnock Shopper News, Green Monadnock column, June 2025. With the annual worldwide Plastic Free July challenge coming soon (plasticfreejuly.org), I’m writing again on one of my favorite topics: solutions to plastic...
by Rachel Ranelli | Jun 2, 2025 | Community Power NH, Community Solar, Energy Stories, Photovoltaics, Solar Energy, Solar Energy
By Patsy Beffa-Negrini, Originally Published in The Monadnock Shopper News, Green Monadnock column, May 2025. We all rely on the electric grid: businesses, hospitals, long-term care facilities, schools, fire and police stations, municipalities, renters, and...
by Jen Risley | Sep 24, 2024 | Energy Efficiency, Energy Stories
By Ann Shed, Originally Published in The Monadnock Shopper News, Green Monadnock column, September 2024 Are you wondering how to make your home or small business more energy efficient or how to choose more modern and efficient heating and cooling systems or home...
by MSH | Jul 19, 2023 | Climate Change, Community Power NH, Energy Stories
By Nora E. Hanke, Program Manager at Monadnock Sustainability Hub. Originally published in The Monadnock Shopper News, Green Monadnock column, July, 2023 We might feel helpless or hopeless about the new-normals of extreme weather and rising global temperatures. This...
by MSH | Dec 20, 2022 | Climate Change, Energy Stories
By Gerald Burns, Monadnock Sustainability Hub Originally Published in the Monadnock Shopper News Let’s face it; climate scientists have developed an image problem. Like the Biblical prophets of old, they foresee a troubling future and have felt themselves duty-bound...
by Jen Risley | Nov 13, 2022 | Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Energy Stories
By John Kondos, MSH Board Member Originally Published in The Monadnock Shopper News, Green Monadnock column, November 2022. For lighting and warmth, we’ve gone from candles and wood to whale oil and coal and on to oil and natural & fracked gas. At each stage,...