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Green tech in the White Mountains
We spent some time earlier this 
week hiking up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and took advantage of the very cool Appalachian Mountain Club hut system, which gives hikers the option to reserve/pay for beds and meals. We started out from Pinkham Notch and scaled up the Madison Gulf Trail to the Madison Hut where we spent our first night. On Day 2 we did the whole Presidential Traverse and stayed at the Mizpah Hut our second night, waking up early enough the next day to get out of the woods and back down to Boston to catch an afternoon Red Sox game at Fenway.
The weather started foggy, cold, and windy (it was 36 degrees w/+50 mph winds on the top of Washington when we left the Madison Hut) but we were later rewarded with great views of the endless green mountains of New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.
In the few minutes I spent at the huts not eating or sleeping, it was really cool to check out the green tech that powers their systems and reduces the huts’ impact on the land that surrounds them. The huts are extremely isolated – generally several miles from any roads. All of the food and related guest amenities are packed in by the hut staff and all related waste is packed out by them as well. Guests are 
expected to pack out what they pack in. The huts all have electric lighting and full kitchens. Stoves are powered by propane and electricity is generated through a combination of mini-windmills, solar panels, and hydroelectric pumps. The pictures here are of the Madison Hut, which has solar panels that produce 1.8 megawatts and a windmill that produces .9 megawatts, the majority of which is used for powering the pumps which fuel the hut’s flush toilets. Most of the huts have composting toilets, which smell worse but consume far less energy and push out far less water into the septic field.
The huts are completely off the grid and can support +50 people night after night. Pretty cool stuff.
My picks: The best content on the web
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Comments (5) My buddy Will recently asked me what feeds I subscribe too, so I thought I would post what I pulled together for him here in case anyone else is looking for the good stuff. I subscribe to tons more feeds, but these are the ones I find myself consistently reading. I’ve found myself helping people set up NetVibes accounts recently, and this is generally what I put together, with each header being a separate tab within the same account. I’ve linked to the sites when possible and included the feed addresses below them. If you want to subscribe to one, copy the feed address and paste it into your aggregator (“Add content” >> “Add feed” in NetVibes). I’ve included feeds from my sites because I read that stuff too.
Tech/VC News
Venture Beat
http://venturebeat.com/?feed=rss2
Barron’s Tech Trader Daily
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/feed/
TechCrunch
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch
http://www.valleywag.com/index.xml
http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/atom.xml
http://www.digg.com/rss/containertechnology.xml
Analyst’s Edge: Venture Capital News
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AnalystsEdge-VentureCapitalFirmNews
Entrepreneurs
Marc Andressen: Ning
http://blog.pmarca.com/atom.xml
http://www.informationarbitrage.com/atom.xml
Keith Schacht: JobCoin/Freshwaterventure
http://www.chicagobeta.com/feed/
http://feeds.feedburner.com/okdork/tZRC
http://feeds.feedburner.com/SteveNewcombBlog
VC Blogs
Jeremy Liew: Lightspeed Venture Partners
http://feeds.feedburner.com/lightspeedblog
Ask the VC (Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson: Mobius Venture Capital/Foundry Group)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/askthevc
http://feeds.venturehacks.com/venturehacks
Econ
The Big Picture: Barry Rithholtz
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/index.rdf
Freakonomics Blog: Levitt & Dubner
http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/feed/
Private Equity/M&A
NYTimes: Dealbook
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/?feed=rss2
http://usmarket.seekingalpha.com/by/type/mergers-acquisitions/feed
Analyst’s Edge: Private Equity News
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AnalystsEdge-PrivateEquityFirmNews
Hedge Funds/Public Equities
Infectious Greed: Paul Kedrosky
http://paul.kedrosky.com/index.rdf
http://wallstfolly.typepad.com/wallstfolly/atom.xml
Controlled Greed: John Bethel
http://www.controlledgreed.com/atom.xml
Analyst’s Edge: Hedge Fund News
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AnalystsEdge-HedgeFundNews
Traditional News
WSJ
http://feeds.wsjonline.com/wsj/xml/rss/3_7011.xml
Economist
http://www.economist.com/rss/printedition/economist_printedition.xml
NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml
Legal
WSJ: Law Blog
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/feed/
http://www.abovethelaw.com/index.xml
Sports
Townie News
http://feeds.feedburner.com/fitzy
Boston.com Red Sox (no direct link because of their stupid registration crap)
http://syndication.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/red_sox_rss/?mode=rss_10
Boston.com Patriots (no direct link because of their stupid registration crap)
http://syndication.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/patriots_rss?mode=rss_10
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/news
Enjoy! Also, let me know if you think I missed anything…
38 Pitches…noticeably silent
38 Pitches, Curt Schilling‘s blog, has been silent since June 13th. Schilling, a $13m starter for the Boston Red Sox, posted on his loss to Colorado on the 13th, but hasn’t written about his blowout loss to Atlanta on June 18th (after which he was placed on the DL) or his subsequent MRI and additional testing.
I love Curt as much as the next Red Sox fan, and have ever since the bloody sock of ’04. I’m also a fan of blogging. However, I can’t say that right now I’m a fan of Curt Schilling blogging. I don’t think I’m alone in that when I hear about Schilling’s 40 year old fatigued shoulder, the first thing that comes to mind is that maybe he shouldn’t be blogging so much, shouldn’t be starting a nebulous gaming company, and shouldn’t be signing up for speaking engagements alongside Walt Mossberg. He should be doing what he’s getting paid $13m a year to do and save the other stuff for retirement.
The next Sports Guy: Fitzy
All of you true Boston sports fans out there have fond memories of Bill Simmons’ (aka “The Sports Guy”) rise to prominence in tandem with Tom Brady during the Patriot’s miracle season of 2001/02…and you’ve probably all grown tired of his really, really long articles, now featured not only on the front page of ESPN.com, but also the first article in every ESPN magazine. Well, there is a new Masshole on the block. Fitzy at Townie News delivers profanity laden Boston sports weekly recap videos every Friday, and his new partner in crime Slade is producing Monday blog posts that are very reminiscent of The Sports Guy in his glory days. I’m sure that is exactly what they’re going for, but whatever. It works for me.
