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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Nano a nano
Can nanotechnology be environmentally friendly? Joel Makower (cautiously) thinks so, and since his post is well-reasoned and full of good links, I'll forgive him this: "When it comes to the environment, nanotechnology is no small matter." Ouch!
Also on the nano tip, check out Treehugger's interview with George Whitesides, a Harvard professor who's done lots of nanotech research of late.
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So 2003
Reason magazine discovers that environmentalists and corporations are working more and more frequently as partners rather than adversaries.
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Peak oil: Dec. 16, 2005
Noted oil analyst Kenneth Deffeyes has put a new date on peak oil: "we passed the peak on December 16, 2005."
That's it. I can now refer to the world oil peak in the past tense. My career as a prophet is over. I'm now an historian.
Read the whole post for details.
So where were you on Dec. 16?
(via Oil Drum)
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Greenhouse mafia
Apparently there's a "Greenhouse Mafia" in Australia, consisting of industry lobbyists and bureaucrats who used to be industry lobbyists, exercising immense power over Australian climate policy, insuring that the public remains in the dark about climate change and that the government does nothing to address it.
Deltoid has lots of links. So does Peak Energy.
When I first read about this, my reaction was, "wow, I wish somebody would do an investigative piece on America's greenhouse mafia." And then I remembered: In the U.S., there's no secret to be uncovered. It's all right out in the open.
