Articles by David Roberts

Fast Company piece

I forgot to mention this:

If you happen to be a subscriber to Fast Company, you can read a piece that Chip and I wrote for the March 2006 issue online. Then again, if you're a subscriber, you have it on paper, so why would you want to read it online?

If you're not a subscriber, well then, just trust me that it's the single greatest essay ever written. And please don't talk to any subscribers about it.

It's about business picking up on (and making money from) sustainability. Lots of stuff Gristies will be familiar with, but hopefully new (and galvanizing!) to a broader business audience.

Update [2006-3-1 19:58:42 by David Roberts]: Ah. My sources tell me we have a PDF copy of the article -- it's right here (uh, PDF), should you desire to read it.

Update [2006-3-2 19:0:40 by David Roberts]: Oops. Turns out the Fast Company folks don't want us reprinting their piece. Guess y'all will have to wait two weeks until it's out from behind their subscription wall.

Mardi Grist

By all accounts -- that is, all accounts from people who were privileged enough to attend, as opposed to people who were told that their presence was not worth the price of a subsidized plane ticket and hotel room, even though they totally would have rocked the party, hmph -- last night's Mardi Grist in NYC celebration was a resounding success.

You can see some pictures from the bash here, courtesy of fiftyRX3.

That man’s got a pair, you gotta give him that

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) delivered a major speech on energy independence today. The setting was a meeting of the National Governors Association -- specifically, the Governors' Ethanol Coalition.

I'll probably have more to say about it in coming days, but for now, I've just reprinted the entire speech below the fold, for your viewing pleasure.

I think it's pretty ballsy. But let me know what you think.

The hobgoblin of little minds

This NYT review of two new climate-change books is fairly good, but it's especially notable for bringing to light this delicious quote:

And [Eugene Linden] appreciates the value of complex, ambiguous data in forging roundabout paths to new discoveries. As one of his sources in oceanography says admiringly of another, "Republicans would call him a flip-flopper, but he's really just a good scientist."