Sustainability

Recent Stories

  • students at research project site, collecting nitrogen through urine
    - Reduce, Reuse, Peecycle
    Visitors to downtown Durham this spring might have noticed students sporting an unusual accessory: a sticker with a yellow droplet on it proclaiming "I donated my nitrogen." No... Read More
  • horseshoe crabs
    - Bluebloods
    Spring is the season of horseshoe crab love, when thousands of females come up on beaches at high tide to spawn, and the smaller males hitch a ride on their backs or scuttle... Read More
  • pine tree closeup
    - Forest Sentinels
    Imagine a class full of students arrayed around a white pine tree in a 30-meter square, staring up through toilet paper tubes at the foliage. Now imagine a satellite 500 miles... Read More
  • students and researchers measuring rooftop snow
    - Weight Watchers
    Winter 2014's snowstorms and attendant roof collapse warnings may be a distant memory now, but a team of students and professors at UNH-Manchester has 2015 in its sights with a... Read More
  • cow judging
    - In a Class by Himself
    Eighteen-year-old Charlie Hood was in a hay field on his father's Derry, N.H., dairy farm when a stranger approached him with an unusual opportunity: a chance to earn a college... Read More
  • tick
    - The Ick of the Tick
    New Hampshire’s long, snowy winter was great for black-legged ticks, which transmit Lyme disease. Cooperative Extension entomologist Alan Eaton gives tips on staying safe. Alan... Read More
  • jason kelly doing yoga and meditation
    - Making It Through: Just Breathe
    Jason Kelly ’14 used to be afraid of homework. An assignment that another student could bang out in 20 minutes would take Kelly a couple of hours, not because he struggled with... Read More
  • cooperative extention celebration
    - Governor, UNH President Commemorate 100 years of UNH Cooperative Extension
    Photo (l to r): State Rep. Robert Haefner, Celina Walker, UNH President Mark Huddleston, Governor Maggie Hassan, UNH Cooperative Extension Dean and Director John Pike, and State... Read More
  • white pines
    - Touchdown in the Ozone
    One-hundred-foot-tall white pine by the Soucook River in Loudon, NH. Photo courtesy of Phil Browne. Until this past February, Barry Rock had no idea that over twenty years of... Read More
  • brittany kokoszka with dairy cow
    - For Cows and CREAM: Never a Day Off
    Brittany Kokoszka, a sophomore from Franklin, MA, meets a red-and-white milk cow in the herd at Saturday's open house for CREAM, a class of 25 UNH students who spend an academic... Read More