Articles by David Roberts

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The Natural Resources Defense Council has a new blog. Check it out.

Update [2005-5-11 16:57:51 by Dave Roberts]: Dave's hangover-befogged eyes move upwards to the ad banner hovering at the top of the page ... something about an NRDC blog ... hey, weird, didn't I just write about that? (Last night was greendrinks. I can't be blamed.)

Thanks to an interview with the architect/designer in Newsweek.

I'm probably naive, or easily suckered, but sue me: Whenever I read what architect and designer William McDonough says, I get optimistic. Excited, even. His is the kind of environmentalism I want to be part of, the kind that will be easy to sell to the public. It promises growth and abundance instead of guilt, shrinkage, and doom. It conceives a future that has room for the unbridled expression of our bursting impulse to create and innovate.

This interview with Newsweek is a case in point.

For those unfamiliar with McDonough's ideas (most famously presented in Cradle to Cradle), it's a great introduction. For those of us who are familiar, it's a great update on what's currently happening. And what's currently happening is just remarkable. Consider this:

Listen to Your Mother

Since the thread on mothers and the environment is going so well, let me echo Japhet in pointing you all to Listen to Your Mother, an effort by the Rainforest Action Network to marshal maternal power in service of getting Ford to reduce the emissions of its carbon-heavy fleet.

Infamous industry defender chosen as contest judge by science association.

Steven Milloy, proprietor of junkscience.com, commentator on Fox News, adjunct scholar at the libertarian Cato Institute, and dedicated industry whore defender, chosen as a contest judge by the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science? Say it ain't so.

Paul Thacker from Environmental Science & Technology sorts it out, and along the way offers some interesting tidbits on "The Junkman" and the many ways that corporations fund pseudo-scientists and think tanks to do their PR dirty work.