Articles by David Roberts

Gore’s new flick, An Inconvenient Truth, improbably succeeds

It’s something of a miracle that An Inconvenient Truth, the chronicle of Al Gore’s quest to raise alarm about “climate chaos,” exists at all. A movie with a scantily clad Jessica Alba presenting a computer slideshow on climate science is implausible enough. Al Gore doing it, well … even C-SPAN could be forgiven for having […]

Harvesting energy

Freaky. Check out this BBC piece on harvesting energy expended by human bodies and the vibrations caused by transport like trains and subways.

NYT mag stuff

The latest issue of New York Times Magazine is devoted to architecture, and there's tons of good stuff in it. Two things in particular:

Check out the interview with Richard Rogers, a Brit architect. He doesn't trumpet his environmental consciousness -- he just takes it for granted. He's delightfully matter-of-fact.

Even better is this in-depth story on how New Urbanist dreams for rebuilding Biloxi fizzled. It's a fascinating look at how issues of class, race, and culture collide in stressful circumstances. Originally I was going to write a long post about it, but here it is 4:45, so ... just go read this post at Oil Drum instead.

The future is (still) coming!

Looks like they're going to try to build a fusion reactor. Maybe this time it will work.