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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The many ways big money seeks to avoid reducing fossil fuel use
The following is a guest essay from Peter Montague, executive director of the Environmental Research Foundation. —– It now seems clear that the coal and oil industries are not going to allow the United States to curb global warming by making major investments in renewable sources of energy. These fossil fuel corporations simply have too […]
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What if there were more Berkeleys?
Imagine if more cities started doing this — neutralizing the upfront costs of solar. It would stimulate competition and innovation in the solar industry (more than there already are). Pretty soon there would be large economies of scale for solar power and the price would drop (faster than it already is). More cities would be […]
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In the end …
… it will be transparency — political and financial — that kills the coal industry.
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Me in Fast Company
I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here, but I’ve got a monthly column on green business in the print edition of Fast Company. I wasn’t sure whether they put it up for free online, but it appears they do: my column from the November edition is right here. It is a piece of craven corporatist […]
