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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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  • Al Gore at TED

    Al Gore addresses the TED conference, March 2008: Pretty intense. You can see how he is consciously attempting to transcend politics — he’s shooting for something bigger now.

  • BP-powered no more

    Remember that new environmental blog at The New Republic that was "powered by BP"? Apparently it is no longer thus powered. As gratifying as it is, in a schadenfreudey sort of way, to see that other small media operations can be as dysfunctional as, er, some small media operations I’m familiar with. I’m glad this […]

  • Question

    What does it say about humanity if, knowing what we know, we stand by and allow a 4,000 MW dirty coal plant get built?

  • WTF?

    They’re submerging subway cars to make artificial reefs?! Nobody tells me anything.