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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Americans and Climate Change: Setting goals II
"Americans and Climate Change: Closing the Gap Between Science and Action" (PDF) is a report synthesizing the insights of 110 leading thinkers on how to educate and motivate the American public on the subject of global warming. Background on the report here. I'll be posting a series of excerpts (citations have been removed; see original report). If you'd like to be involved in implementing the report's recommendations, or learn more, visit the Yale Project on Climate Change website.
Today's excerpt is long but I love it -- it's one of my favorite bits of the report. It's about the "four paradoxes of urgency."
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Groovy Green
Groovy Green has left its blog cocoon and become a magazine. You can acquaint yourself via a thought-provoking list of ways to localize your life.
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Pollan on Wal-Mart and organic
Michael Pollan covers Wal-Mart's move into organic food in the NYT, and it is, predictably, the best piece I've read on the subject.
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Congress to tackle climate change and peak oil
With only a few months left on the legislative calendar, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has decided to abandon any efforts at bipartisanship in favor of using his chamber to hold a series of highly partisan, mostly symbolic votes on conservative causes, including amendments banning gay marriage and flag burning, and fully repealing the estate tax.
Although Frist has peppered the Senate schedule with a handful of substantive issues -- including likely votes this week on a new U.S. trade representative, a Native Hawaiian-rights bill and a new mine-safety czar -- the chamber will put off work on major legislation such as the fiscal 2007 Defense authorization bill in order for Frist to pursue items of special interest to his party's conservative base.(via WM)
