Articles by David Roberts

Public not sold on nuclear power

A new survey (press release PDF; full results PDF) done by Opinion Research Corporation (ORC), commissioned and released by the Civil Society Institute, finds what I at least consider good news:

Dependence Day

Today, Environmental Action launched a campaign called Dependence Day.

Why today? Well, today marks the symbolic end of America's domestic oil for the year. Proportionally speaking, for the rest of the year we'll be using imported oil.

According to Navin at EA, they've pulled together "a diverse coalition of groups including security experts, environmentalists, consumers, and labor unions -- all of whom agree that America's dependence on oil is one of our greatest threats and that it is time to move beyond decades of rhetoric to actually do something." Word.

Blah blah Pollan interview blah

Dozens of emails flagged. More than 15 tabs open in Firefox. Well over 100 unread entries in the "green" folder of my RSS reader.

These signs all point to one fact: I'm a bad, bad blogger.

I'll try to catch up a little tomorrow.

Do check out my interview with Michael Pollan. He's a smart cookie, and honestly one of the best pure prose stylists in the non-fiction world, IMO.

And here's a question for you: the interview we published is 2,000 words, roughly. But the original interview is much longer, around 10,000 words.

Would y'all have any interest in seeing the whole thing? If so, I could clean it up a little and post it on the blog, maybe in chunks.

Google maps go green

Check out Have a Green Summer, a collaboration between the Earth Day Network and Google that helps you find eco-friendly vacation destinations. Very cool.