Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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It’s … medium
The big news today is that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has joined with McCain and Lieberman to re-introduce a bill to cap carbon dioxide emissions. The targets aren’t all that ambitious — it would slow the rise of CO2 emissions, cutting them two-thirds from present levels by 2050 — but the bill is nonetheless expected […]
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The meme all the kids are talking about!
I got to thinking (again) about an elevator pitch for greens — the "What Greens Want" that can be explained in a short elevator ride. Ideally the message would be simple enough to communicate, but meaty enough to imply some real choices and policies. The second part of my Tom Paine piece is an attempt […]
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You listen
Our food/ag writer and all-around smart guy Tom Philpott recently did a short interview with PBS’s Now. I think it shows an almost mustachian ability to distill large, complex messages down to their memorable essence. For instance: Frankly, our addiction to cheap and easy energy explains why so much of the current political discussion of […]
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Everybody loves lists!
Way back at the beginning of the year (is that already two weeks ago?), I meant to do a bit of a round-up of year-end lists appearing on other sites. The moment has probably passed, but what the hell, I still have all the tabs open in Firefox, so for nostalgia if nothing else, here […]
