| Our state’s environment needs more local journalism – here’s how you can help
By STEVE LEONE Monitor publisher Published: 11/17/2021
Look out your kitchen window. What’s changed since you were a kid? That’s a question one of the many environmental experts we’ve spoken to in recent weeks suggested we ask our readers.
We can imagine what you’re seeing — a later start to winter, a pond that doesn’t freeze quite like it used to, a hill once used for downhill skiing that’s now forgotten. We all have our observations, and when it comes to the environment, it brings this very global issue right into our backyards.
Here at the Monitor, we’ve been thinking long and hard about our role in helping preserve our corner of the world for future generations. That’s why we’ve been speaking to so many people who, like us, are concerned about our environment and what it will look like for those who don’t yet have a say in the matter.
Most everyone we spoke to has said the same thing. They appreciate the journalists we have in New Hampshire who are devoted to environmental reporting. We just need more of them.
More coverage. More understanding. More accountability. More solutions.
This is why the Monitor is launching its Environmental Reporting Lab, a long-term effort to become a statewide hub of environmental journalism. We’ll delve deep into the impacts of climate change, but we’ll also explain to readers the natural world around them and the businesses and innovations leading the change. | 
