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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Oil in the Grand Canyon
A Russian company called Dosko pushing to drill for oil in the Grand Canyon? Find out the details.
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Everything you wanted to know about Portland…
Well I'll be. I was skeptical about whether Treehugger's "tell us about your city" thing was going to work, but they asked about Portland, OR, and man did they get an earful. Some really fascinating stuff in comments.
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Laurie David is friggin’ everywhere
And good for her. If Grist's interview with David didn't satisfy your appetite, E magazine serves up some fresh interview goodness.
It has been my goal this year to permeate popular culture with [global warming], and to use all of the resources that I have available to me to make that happen. One of those resources is my relationships with comedians and my ability to produce comedy. And then, obviously, my relationship with HBO. Just using everything I can to take this issue off the science pages and put it on the front pages. My feeling is that if people don't start demanding change, the government is not going to change.
Get on witcha bad self!
(via TH)
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Green homebuilding spreads
I would be remiss if I did not at least link to this great AP story on the spread of eco-friendly homebuilding. A happy trend. What's missing, of course, is a commensurate rise in eco-friendly community building -- but I suspect that will be along shortly.
