Articles by David Roberts

Gore links

Via an endorsement of Al Gore for president by The New Republic's head honcho Martin Peretz, I found a piece that Gore wrote for TNR way back in 1989 (PDF). Give it a read. It's remarkable for its erudition and foresight. While you read, try to imagine President Bush saying the words. Then weep quietly.

An Inconvenient Truth won the Humanitas prize for helping to "liberate, enrich and unify society." It's the first Special Prize given by the organization in ten years.

Here's Gore on Keith Olberman's Countdown.

Here's Gore on Charlie Rose.

In a poll of Daily Kos readers, Al Gore gets the presidential endorsement by a wide margin.

Moms

Lou Bendrick -- who occasionally writes for us -- is funny. And she's got a funny piece up on Orion. It's about moms and environmentalism and how easy it is to screen it all out.

Let me cultivate my personal female mystique by disclosing that I am the environmental media and I also loathe the environmental media. Just say "photovoltaic" and my eyes start to get heavy; start in about polar bears drowning and I have to go the happy place in my head that involves ponies, chocolate, and George Clooney. Add to this the typical dose of future pessimism found in most environmental reportage (we'll soon be digging for grubs with a stone spear, you just wait and see!) and blame (that un-recycled peanut butter jar just killed a polar bear cub, damn you!), and you'll discover that I'm headed to the grocery store to see who made the worst-dressed list at the Oscars.

It's a sentiment that might annoy some hardcore Gristies, but it's obviously pretty widely shared.

(She goes on to say nice things about us, so naturally I find the article brilliant.)

File under: WTF

Did you know you can now get organic food on Amazon.com?

CFLs

Leonard Lin crunches the numbers and finds that if the government started a program to replace every lightbulb in every household with a CFL bulb, the American people would save $4.1 billion in electrical bills and enough power to replace a nuclear power plant. (via kottke)

In other news, Mr. Luna is still plugging away at his bright idea.