Conservation NH's founding Executive Director leaves an organization recognized in the New Hampshire Statehouse as a leading voice for the protection of New Hampshire's environment. Recently named Director of Government...
The New Hampshire conservation community is losing one of our top advocacy voices to Vermont.
Joel Harrington, the Government Relations Director for the Nature Conservancy, announced today that he is leaving the organization for a position with Vermont Law School. We are very happy for Joel and wish him only the best in his...
Few know that Monadnock Paper Mills in Bennington is the oldest continuously operating paper mill in the United States.
As a fixture in the Granite State since 1819, it has seen its share of competition and internal changes. Yet with all the changes, the company’s dedication to protecting the local environment has remained a...
The 2011 Environmental Policy Breakfast was filled with exciting presentations regarding the year’s most critical Environmental Issues. But it was also an opportunity to celebrate, as Conservation New Hampshire presented their first Annual Leadership Award. This year CNH recognized Rick Russman for his lifelong devotion to preserving New Hampshire’s Environment. After receiving the award, I had the...
It was a day for celebrating, and continuing, progress in making New Hampshire a hotbed for sustainably-minded businesses, as the Green Launching Pad (GLP) hosted its Green Community Day in Portsmouth on November 15th. The event, which took place at NH's first LEED Certified hotel and conference center, featured a wide range of...
MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, an artists' colony founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, pianist Marian MacDowell (mostly though the efforts of the latter), is on 450 acres of woodland and field, within view of Mount Monadnock. “Three protected rivers flow through Peterborough and play host to more than 117 species of...
“A very important part of my work has to do with materials,” says David Lamb, New Hampshire's fifth Artist Laureate. Although many artists are inspired by the state's forested landscape, Lamb is one of the handful who make art from pieces of the landscape itself.
“There are many woods that I think are exemplary that we...
Gifford Pinchot, an instrumental figure in modern American conservation, was born 145 years ago today. Although not exactly a household name, the Connecticut native and graduate of New Hampshire's own Phillips Exeter Academy was the first Chief Forester of the United States Forest Service, working with Theodore Roosevelt to create and expand the National Forest System.
Pinchot can...
Portsmouth artist Tim Gaudreau became an eco-artist and activist when he learned that the picturesque fog he was taking a picture of in a California valley was really smog drifting in from L.A. “I had been hoping that people would be moved by my images to enjoy, respect and even protect the landscape that was...
During my four years at Concord High School, I passed this plant on Pleasant St. countless times. It seemed so out of place; with its smokestack spewing who-knows-what into the air, it looked like the poster-child for air pollution and big, scary, environmentally-harmful industry.
But the plant, owned and operated by Concord Steam Corporation, isn't what it appears....
