Sustainability Stories
Solarizing Monadnock
by John Kondos, Clean Energy New Hampshire Monadnock Region Circuit Rider. Originally Published in The Monadnock Shopper News, Green Monadnock column, December 2023 Solar is booming. With increasing efficiency and lower costs, along with the realization that inflation...
Climate Change is here…How can we adapt?
By Catherine Owen Koning, Professor of Environmental Science at Franklin Pierce University Originally Published in The Monadnock Shopper News, Green Monadnock column, June, 2023 We all know that change is unavoidable – add climate change to the list of...
Hub Collaborates on Keene’s First-in-Region Public Fast Chargers for Electric Vehicles
March 1, 2023 The Monadnock Sustainability Hub is proud of its partnership with the Monadnock Food Co-op for the planned installation of four Electric Vehicle (EV) chargers adjacent to the Co-op’s parking lot: two DC fast chargers - the region’s first! - and a dual...
How the Inflation Reduction Act Can Help You Make Home Energy Improvements | Monadnock Ledger Transcript
By Dori Drachman, Co-coordinator of the PREP Team and Co-chair of the Monadnock Sustainability Hub Originally Published in the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, September 23, 2022 When the Peterborough Renewable Energy Planning (PREP) Team first started developing a plan...
Climate Science: The IPCC Reports
By Gerald Burns, Monadnock Sustainability Hub Originally Published in the Monadnock Shopper News Quick quiz: What do the letters IPCC stand for? No matter if the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change doesn’t come immediately to mind. It’s more important to realize...
Clean Energy to Clean Our Waste
By Ann Shedd, MSH Board Member. Originally Published in The Monadnock Shopper News, Green Monadnock column, July 2022. Have you been out boating, fishing, swimming, or just admiring our New England streams and rivers this summer? Take a moment to be grateful for our...
Electric Vehicle Charging in the Monadnock Region — Monadnock Inns Offer a Recharging Station to Traveling EV Owners
Public EV Charging in New Hampshire's Monadnock Region Original post on April 22, 2021; updated May, 2023. Any electric vehicle (EV) owner who lives in the Monadnock Region could tell you that public EV charging is limited in the area. This is a common theme...
The Push for Renewables – Solarize Monadnock Campaign Just the Start of Local Clean Energy Effort | Monadnock-Ledger Transcript
Originally published by the Monadnock-Ledger Transcript on Tuesday, 25 August 2020. By TIM GOODWIN Frank and Valerie Jenkins had been interested in solar energy for some time. They just never had a property that would get the right sun exposure to make installing...
Rindge & Marlborough LED Lighting
Marlborough went to LED Street Light to Save Residents $$ In 2018 the Marlborough Energy committee researched and provided the Selectmen with the information necessary for bids to replace the street lights with LED lamps. Marlborough now has better lighting at...
The Shedd-Porter Library
The Shedd-Porter Library is a unique piece of architecture for a small New England town with its copper dome and brought with it heating challenges. A project started to reduce heating causes because the Obama stimulus package funded an audit. This allowed the...