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From a Shorter Winter Season to More Storm Damage: New Hampshire Outdoor Recreation Providers Feel Climate Impacts Far More than Visitors
In this brief, the authors examine to what extent outdoor recreation providers and visitors in New Hampshire are impacted by annual climatic conditions representative of long-term trends, specifically, through the 2024–2028 New Hampshire Statewide Comprehensive…
New Hampshire Climate Change, Economy, Environment, New Hampshire, Public Opinion
Practitioners' Guide to Community Lending for a Just and Equitable Energy Transition
In this guide, authors Curtis Probst, Tina Poole Johnson, and Hannah Vargason share a collection of key resources and references that provide an entry point to clean energy finance for community lending practitioners and to community development finance for green…
Center for Impact Finance Community Development Finance, Energy, Environment
A Descriptive Study of Covid-Era Movers to the Northern Forest Region
The Northern Forest—a 34-county swath of northern Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York—saw an increase in domestic migration during the pandemic, with 85 percent of the region’s counties experiencing domestic in-migration gains between 2020 and 2021, compared…
Center for Social Policy in Practice COVID-19, Environment, Forests, Migration
Clean Energy Project Development for Low-Income Communities
Scaling clean energy in low-income communities through solar and deep efficiency retrofits presents financing challenges, but that is only part of the problem. Drawing on research conducted by the Carsey School’s Center for Impact Finance, this white paper outlines a…
Center for Impact Finance Community Development Finance, Energy, Environment, Infrastructure, Low Income
Scaling Equitable Solar Finance
The U.S. solar photovoltaics industry has taken off over the past decade, but without deliberate action low- and moderate-income communities could be left behind in the transition to clean energy. Drawing on substantial literature related to multiple dimensions of…
Center for Impact Finance Energy, Environment
Bringing Solar Energy to Low- and Moderate-Income Communities
The U.S. solar photovoltaics industry has taken off over the past decade, but without deliberate action low- and moderate-income communities could be left behind.
Center for Impact Finance, Community, Environment, and Climate Change Climate Change, Community Development Finance, Energy, Environment, Infrastructure, Low Income
Providing Clean Energy Solutions to India’s Bottom of the Pyramid Population
In this white paper, Jill Howard, Fiona Wilson, and E. Hachemi Aliouche discuss how Oorja Development Solutions, a social enterprise based in India, is working to provide integrated energy solutions to revitalize the agrarian economy, alleviate poverty, and fight…
Changemaker Collaborative Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Poverty
‘Outlaw Operators’
In this brief, author Aysha Bodenhamer describes how prevention failures in the coal mining industry have resulted in the resurgence of black lung disease. Caused by the chronic inhalation of coal and silica dust, black lung is progressive, incurable, life-altering,…
Community, Environment, and Climate Change Environment, Health, Rural
Are New Hampshire’s Winters Warming?
In this brief, authors Elizabeth Burakowski and Lawrence Hamilton review some basic evidence about winter warming in New Hampshire, explore to what extent state residents are aware of this trend, and ask who is aware, in terms of characteristics such as age,…
Community, Environment, and Climate Change, New Hampshire Climate Change, Environment, New Hampshire, Public Opinion
Population, Greenspace, and Development
An ongoing concern in both urban and rural America is the tradeoff between residential and commercial development and the conservation of forestland, shrublands, and grasslands, commonly referred to as greenspace. As communities develop, adding schools, housing,…
Community, Environment, and Climate Change, Demography Community Development, Demography, Environment