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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E.O. Wilson’s mentors
The great biologist E.O. Wilson discusses the kinds of people who inspired him: Check out Grist’s interview with Wilson here.
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Oil in the ocean: light as a feather!
“These [oil] firms have learned a lot over the past two decades and three decades about their ability to go out and put a platform in water and extract oil and do it in a way that they’re not causing any environmental harm at all.” — White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto
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Grist downtime
You may have noticed that Grist.org was inaccessible for most of the day today. On the bright side, none of us could get our email either, so we weren’t burdened by all the complaints people were sending in. Yeah, that’s really all I’ve got for bright side. The problem was not with the site but […]
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Dave heads to where the hills are alive
Listen Play "Prelude," from The Sound of Music On Wednesday, I leave for Salzburg, Austria, where — thanks to the generosity of a Knight Foundation Fellowship — I will be attending a session of the Salzburg Global Seminar on "Combating Climate Change at Local and Regional Levels: Sustainable Strategies, Renewable Energy." I am of course […]
