Discover(ing) Sustainability

Want to learn how to raise your own chickens? Yellow House Farm in Barrington, NH is offering “Chicken Husbandry 101” and other classes at their Yellow House Farm School. According to their website, farmers Joseph Marquette and Robert Gibson are “particularly focused on preserving and promoting the endangered heirloom breeds of poultry that have sustained [...]

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Reading the blog entries of our first cohort of UNH Sustainability Internship Program (SIP) students is like an espresso shot of inspiration.  They are working on the coolest projects for sustainability leaders across New Hampshire like Clean Air – Cool Planet, the Mount Washington Resort, and the New Hampshire Sustainable Lodging and Restaurant Program. They [...]

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For more than a year the New Hampshire Climate Change Policy Task Force created by Governor Lynch has been working on a Climate Action Plan (CAP) for the state. The plan was released yesterday, and this morning several key members of the Task Force went on NHPR’s “The Exchange” to discuss what the plan would mean for [...]

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Last week, while here in New Hampshire we were waiting for that whole global warming thing to catch on and melt our filthy piles of snow, Michelle Obama was planting a garden. Sure, it’s a heckuva lot warmer in Washington than it is in northern New England — rumor has it they don’t even have [...]

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The recent issue of the UNH Magazine has a piece called “Bear Baiting” in which faculty from across campus are asked to comment on the current recession felt round the globe. It strikes me just how many of these faculty are urging us to use today’s economic crisis as a wake up call to do [...]

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More than 50 sugarhouses across the state will hold open-houses, tours, pancake breakfasts, tastings and other delicious happenings. For a map of many of the sugarhouses in the state, visit the NH Maple Producers website or call the Maple Hotline at 603-225-3757.  For a few highlights, click here.  In honor of maple season, you could [...]

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Posted on behalf of Nina Harris (interning at Clean Air – Cool Planet) and Kimberly Rogers (interning at the NH Carbon Challenge) as part of UNH’s new Sustainability Internship Program.  You can see the original postings on the UNH Career Center blog. Nina: “I’ll be working with Clean Air – Cool Planet (CACP), a non-profit based in Portsmouth, [...]

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Posted on behalf of our intern, Juliet Bluemling. On February 21 and 22 I took part in the Northeast Real Food Summit held at UMass Amherst. The Northeast Real Food Summit, organized as part of the Real Food Challenge, was a chance for students from around the Northeast to network with other schools, gain resources [...]

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Local farmers and chefs are coming together in Portsmouth this weekend to kick off the 2009 “Grow-Out” of New England heirloom vegetables – an initiative of RAFT (Renewing America’s Food Traditions). Managed by Slow Food USA, RAFT is an alliance of food, farming environmental and culinary advocates who have joined together to restore America’s agricultural [...]

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