My Turn: New Hampshire’s environment and energy resources Published: 5/6/2021 8:00:13 AM While New Hampshire is not rich in home-grown energy resources, our environmental beauty and clean natural environment are admired around the country. How can our future energy needs as a state be met in harmony with our attractive natural environment while addressing the climate crisis? In the 1999 book Natural Capitalism, Paul Hawken and others identified the enormous value in environmental services provided to all of us by our natural environment free of charge. If we had to pay nature’s services to clean up dirty air, filter out pollution from our soil, treat our water until it is naturally pure and filter out harmful solar effects, we would ring up quite a sizable bill.