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This week, as part of our series on the economy, Working It Out, we’re asking the question, has this recession changed us. The Carsey Institute at the University New Hampshire just released a study that examines a particular slice of that question. It looks at the impact of the recession on civic life. New Hampshire Public Radio’s Jon Greenberg has more.

This weekend, ten teenagers from Bow High School will head to Copenhagen to discuss climate change.

They’ll be attending the Zealand Consensus, a Danish government-sponsored climate conference for high school students from around the world.

As New Hampshire Public Radio's Amy Quinton reports, the students have been studying the issues for six months and hope they can make their voices heard at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

This week in our Working It Out series, we’re asking the question, Have we changed? Did the deepest recession in decades bring us to some new understanding or when it ends, will we be back where we started?

The Center for Public Leadership at Harvard gives us some insights through its National Leadership Index. The annual survey looks at popular trust in various institutions from Wall Street to religious organizations. This year, American’s overall confidence in their leaders went up a little bit. But as New Hampshire Public Radio’s Jon Greenberg reports, the picture is more complicated than that.

The town of Tamworth has something no other town in New Hampshire enjoys - besides, of course, the southern view of Mt Chocorua. Tamworth is practicing it's own version of universal healthcare.

For more than 80 years, the nurses of Tamworth have provided free medical care to every resident in town. They even make house calls.

NHPR's Elaine Grant joined one of the nurses on her rounds.

As the weather gets colder, social service agencies across the state have found a growing need for warm clothing among the people they serve.

The state's Food Bank distributes donated food to shelters and soup kitchens across the state.

But there's no such central repository for donated clothing.

Students at UNH in Manchester are trying to solve that problem...and get college credit at the same time.

For the third year in a row, they've organized the Warmth from the Millyard clothing drive.

Associate Professor Kate Hanson teaches the UNH Community Leadership Program.

She describes the students' efforts to NHPR's Mark Bevis.