Articles by David Roberts

Local v. organic

The study showing that buying local food is better than buying organic got covered all over the blogosphere, but Treehugger has a particularly helpful pair of posts up on what to do about it.

Death: A vast rightwing conspiracy?

I think this is a bit cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs, but if you're into that kind of thing, you'll be into it.

(via Sustainablog)

Bill Frist gets one right

Senate majority leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has introduced a bill that would make access to clean water and proper sanitation an explicit objective of U.S. foreign aid. I haven't seen this covered anywhere but Joel Makower's blog, but really, what else do you need?

We'll write more on this in coming weeks.

Ellen Degeneres outbid for titi

The monkey, people. The monkey.

The right to name an unidentified species of titi monkey in Bolivia has been sold for $650,000. No word yet on what the name is, but it has to conform to the rules of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Presumably that rules out titi jokes. Sigh.