For decades near my home a stretch of road over a wetland floods when beavers build dams, an unintended consequence of their need to maintain high water levels to protect their family lodges. Yesterday, a town agent came to expel them. You can’t.
Ann Podlipny of Chester is a member of the NH Network. It’s remarkable that all of us have the capacity “to stop burning things” as climate activist Bill McKibben wrote in his essay, In a World on Fire. Though climate action can feel overwhelming at.
Ann Podlipny of Chester is a retired teacher and social worker. She was a participant in the recent My Turn opinion writing workshop, a partnership between the Monitor, GSNC and NH Humanities. During the 1950s when the baby boomer generation attended.
Plastic waste and pollution have reached epic proportions. Billions of tons of plastic have been produced since it was invented in the early 1900s. Though useful, most plastic has accumulated in landfills, landscapes, rivers and oceans. Single use.
Editor’s note: This is the third in an occasional series about New Hampshire immigrants, their challenges and contributions. More than 48,000 immigrant workers made up 6% of the state’s labor force in 2018, the latest year for which statistics are.