What’s Up North Blog

You might be wondering what whales have to do with a blog on local energy. After 25 years of working in the environmental field, I believe one thing to be true: all environmental problems can be solved by modelling human...

Lauren Richard, Small Business Services Coordinator Danielle Delaini, Entrepreneurial Program Director Kelly’s Story It is before 6 am and I am up packing lunches, half dressed and less than half awake. I reheat old coffee in the microwave and suck...

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. — Mahatma Ghandi A little over five years ago my wife Erin and I visited the Adirondacks for the very first time. Prior to...

As I waited in line for a mouth-watering local-food lunch of baked potatoes, butter, cheese, sour cream, ground beef, salsa and butternut squash soup and chatted with a colleague who lives nearly three hours from me, I found myself pondering...

In the wake of the 2016 election, the media dispatched reporters to rural areas across the country to gain insights into a largely ignored part of America that had an outsized impact on the outcome of the election. The resulting...