Discover(ing) Sustainability

Right before Mother Nature made half of New Hampshire and large chunks of Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts power down everything (UNH ice storm update here), UNH celebrated the winners of this year’s Student Energy Waste Watch Challenge: Gibbs Hall, Eaton House, and Woodside Apartment. Congratulations students! We also announced the savings from our annual Thanksgiving power down [...]

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New research from UNH’s Climate Change Research Center’s Cameron Wake and his former graduate student Elizabeth Burakowski confirms what anyone enjoying today’s balmy temperatures might suspect: In the northeast, winters are indeed getting warmer. The duo conducted the most rigorous analysis to date of wintertime climate data in the northeastern U.S. from 1965 to 2005 [...]

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Cutting down trees for inside use … lighting up the neighborhood, one twinkle-light at a time … filling the yard with larger-than-life inflated elves … let’s face it, holiday decorating hardly smacks of sustainability. But last week, I visited the UNH greenhouses to learn how researchers are working to raise poinsettias in a way that’s [...]

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