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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Last chance to save South Central Farm
Via BoingBoing comes word that the South Central Farm -- probably the largest urban garden in the country, where 350 low-income families grow their own food -- will soon vanish if folks don't rally to save it. In its place will sit a massive Wal-Mart warehouse.
The farmers held off bulldozers by legal action, but the developer recently received approval from the court to evict them. The Trust for Public Land, a national, nonprofit, land conservation organization that is working to save the farm, has until Monday, May 22, 2006, to raise approximately $10 million to purchase the land. They are part of the way there, but need several million more.
You can learn how to make a donation here.
We've discussed the farm previously on Gristmill here, here, and here.
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Grain ethanol: wack
Robert Rapier has all your (grain) ethanol-bashing needs covered with this latest salvo:
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From Bare Ass to Bono
Look at the set of issues on that chick! At a boring heads-of-state summit, a bikini-sporting beauty queen crashed a photo shoot, protesting a pulp mill planned for Uruguay. “It was one of the best things that has happened at this summit,” said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. He added, “I didn’t see anything about pulp, […]
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Al Gore’s slideshow
Climate Change Action has unearthed a video of Al Gore's complete climate-change slideshow -- the one An Inconvenient Truth is based on. It's a huge file, but if you're curious, there it is.
Update [2006-5-19 10:42:12 by David Roberts]: Speaking of Gore (do we speak of anything else?), Matthew Nisbet has an interesting post discussing why Gore didn't campaign more heavily on climate change in 2000. It's based on a passage from Joe Klein's new book Politics Lost. Klein's a tool, but I suspect he's more or less right on this subject.
