Hannah Krantz

Oct 10, 2023 | brookline.news | Sam Mintz |Hannah Krantz

In a ceremony last month, town officials cut the ribbon on seven public electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in Brookline Village, as part of a broader effort to build out infrastructure that some EV users say has been inadequate. The new chargers are located in the town-owned parking lot on Webster Place. Combined with the existing four public stations scattered across town, Brookline now has 11 active public charging stations, each of which can be connected to two vehicles at a time.

Aug 9, 2023 | brookline.news | Hannah Krantz

A board tasked with moving Brookline to zero carbon emissions by 2040 has begun planning how the town might get there, and is eyeing what may seem like drastic changes to how people live. Among its early ideas discussed at a meeting in July: banning gas cars from traveling through Brookline, placing electric vehicle chargers in all public parking spaces, replacing all existing fossil fuel appliances with electric ones, and including solar panels and batteries in as many buildings as possible.

Jul 7, 2023 | mothernature.news | Sydney O’Shaugnessy |Thomas Di Fonzo |Hannah Krantz

By Sydney O’Shaugnessy, Thomas Di Fonzo, and Hannah Krantz. Despite their enormous population in the Potomac River, blue catfish are not native to the area. After their introduction to the Chesapeake Bay watershed in the 1970s, the “bluecats” took over the area, sharply decreasing the river’s biodiversity and harming the populations of native essential commercial fish species.

Jul 6, 2023 | planetforward.org | Thomas Di Fonzo |Hannah Krantz |Sydney O’Shaugnessy

By Sydney O’Shaugnessy, Thomas Di Fonzo, and Hannah Krantz. Despite their enormous population in the Potomac River, blue catfish are not native to the area. After their introduction to the Chesapeake Bay watershed in the 1970s, the “bluecats” took over the area, sharply decreasing the river’s biodiversity and harming the populations of native essential commercial fish species.

Feb 9, 2023 | planetforward.org | Dana Fries |Alyssa Landolfi |Jing-ning Hsu |Hannah Krantz

This video paints a picture of what the dairy industry of today looks like to people from Chenango County, New York. This area used to be one of the major hubs of dairy production in the United States but the largest figures in the industry have sinced moved elsewhere. I wanted to better understand why dairy farms have largely moved to the west coast. What do the experts think of this shift from east to west? Is the United States dairy industry sustainable in it's current form?