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Backcountry Skiing Is Booming in the Northeast. But Can It Survive?

Baua Electric

Early last February, at the Mount Washington Backcountry Ski Festival in New Hampshire, the organizers faced an increasingly common problem: Terrible snow. Across New England, nonprofit organizations are attempting to tackle this issue by creating gladed ski zones. And this is being considered as we embark upon new projects.

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Rhode Island's Renewable Energy Goal a Beacon for Other States

Cars That Think

Anything more ambitious, and I would start being a little skeptical that it would be attainable,” says Seaver Wang , a climate and energy researcher at the Breakthrough Institute. But Rhode Island plans to fill the gap with as much as 600 megawatts of new wind power. It is true that Rhode Island is small.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

Well let’s see, they want to do a million roofs by 2016 and they’re up to 70,000 now. Well, I’d love to retire to along one of the rivers in New Hampshire where you have a cotton gin. So the percentage of residential roofs with solar is even lower than that. That’s pitiful. 932,000 to go. What is that urge all about?

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