Celebrating Independent Businesses That Support Our Neighbors, Neighborhoods, and Planet

by Jen Risley | Mar 4, 2026 | Resilience, Sustainability Stories

March is Choose Indie Sustainable Month Locally owned businesses, especially ones working towards a more environmentally sustainable and socially just economy, help us keep “the green” in our communities. The Local Crowd Monadnock invites you to celebrate these...

Community-Based Solutions to Plastic Pollution

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...

Nelson Runs on Sunshine

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...

Community, Coaches, Cars and Cycles

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...

How to Help Meet the Greatest Challenge in Human History

by Jen Risley | Jun 30, 2024 | Advocacy, Climate Change, Sustainability Stories

By Matthew Myer Boulton. Originally Published in The Monadnock Shopper News, Green Monadnock column, June 2024. When it comes to our overheating planet, three questions matter most: What’s going on? Why is it important? What can we do? Let’s tackle these three...

Community Solar Garden

by Jen Risley | Apr 28, 2024 | Photovoltaics, Solar Energy, Solar Energy, Sustainability Stories

By Peter Hansel. Originally Published in The Monadnock Shopper News, Green Monadnock column, April 2024. So what is a Community Solar Garden, anyway? When we think of a garden, we think of solar energy from the sun shining onto green cells in plants which use...