On Nov. 11, the gorgeous ginkgo tree on the Durham campus of UNH dropped all of its bright yellow leaves at once, an eye-popping move that ginkgo trees are famous for doing at the season’s first hard frost. The annual leaf-drop has long been cause for minor celebration in Durham but a look at records […]

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30.11.2023

New Hampshire's snowmobile trails are awesome, even to non-fans - Granite Geek

I’m no lover of snowmobiles – they’re a useful tool and have an important role to play in northern life, but like ATVs and pickup trucks they have been bulked up and oversold. They’ve become a plague of too-powerful, dangerous, smelly, noisy toys that ruin things for everybody around them. Go to a Route 2 […]

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30.11.2023

Net metering boosts UNH power from landfill gas - Granite Geek

There are all sorts of green-energy reasons to admire what the UNH Durham campus is doing with electricity and heat but if that doesn’t move you, consider the green-eyeshade reasons. “It gives us budget certainty,” said Bill Janelle, associate vice president of facilities and operations at Durham, making a statement to gladden the heart of […]

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02.12.2023

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