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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  • Pollan envy

    For people involved in the TV business, I imagine watching The Wire — David Simon’s novelistic depiction of big-city dysfunction on HBO — generates mixed feelings. On one hand: Damn that’s good. On the other: Damn. That’s really good. It makes what once seemed excellent appear merely adequate; what was once adequate now worthless. It […]

    David Roberts Culture

  • Michael Dell offers a glimpse of an unannounced product

    Michael Dell is on stage now, going over the importance of IT for sustainability and the many worth initiatives Dell has undertaken — all of which you can read about on Dell’s site. The one newsworthy bit was the presentation of what he calls, with a distinct lack of poetry, "the unannounced product." It is […]

    David Roberts Technology

  • New Sundance doc tells the story of the TXU coal fight in Texas

    I finally got around to watching my preview copy of Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars, the new short documentary from Robert Redford’s Sundance outfit. It’s about the battle over the 12 coal plants proposed for Texas by TXU in 2007. A couple things that I thought were quite well done: Environmentalists play virtually no role […]

    David Roberts Climate & Energy

  • Monsanto CEO applies for sainthood

    I’m watching the CEO of Monsanto, Hugh Grant, talk about how his company is a boon to sustainability. They’re focused on reducing the footprint of agriculture and feeding the world’s hungry — especially poor African women. Oh, and also they’re dedicated to reducing water use. All the farmers that use their seeds love them, and […]

    David Roberts Food