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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Interview with mayor of New Orleans
Everyone, and I mean everyone, should listen to this interview with the mayor of New Orleans. Any hint of political tact is gone -- he's just angry and confused by the criminal indifference and incompetence that are consigning thousands of his constituents to disease and death.
It's painful to hear, but utterly necessary.
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Rebuilding New Orleans
As the immediate crises in New Orleans slowly resolve themselves over the next weeks and months, talk will inevitably turn to rebuilding. Over at Worldchanging, Alan AtKisson offers the first version of what he promises will be a developing, evolving piece of work about how to rebuild New Orleans in a bright green way. In a very grim time it's a nice ray of passion and optimism. Highly recommended.
Update [2005-9-2 12:12:20 by Dave Roberts]: See also this optimistic take on rebuilding by Ari Kelman over on TPMCafe.
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On framing environmentalism
This is part three of a three-part interview. You can read part one here and part two here.
In this section, Alex and I discuss the way environmentalism has been framed and what greens can do to change those frames.
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Katrina and oil
Some folks might look at the economic reverberations of Hurricane Katrina, which has done untold damage to our oil infrastructure, and think, "hm, maybe depending so heavily on a single source of fuel concentrated in a few small areas puts us unwisely at risk."
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tx.) isn't one of those people:
Barton said the hurricane aftermath should be a "wakeup call" to the American people and government to increase domestic oil production from areas like the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge and the coast of California and to build new refineries.
