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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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 […]
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Russia’s environmental movement rocked by serious mommy issues
You thought there was dissent inside the U.S. environmental movement? Welcome to Russia, where last summer a band of 20 protestors outside a nuclear reprocessing plant was attacked by masked thugs with bats and pipes, leaving one dead from a cracked skull. One of the attackers turned out to be Pavel Rikhvanova, the 19-year-old son […]
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A plea for higher food consciousness from My Name Is Earl
Here’s a new anthem for all the veggies and vegans out there. It’s from My Name Is Earl, a couple weeks ago. Darnell is a gentle soul who’s in witness protection; his cover requires him to cook at the Crab Shack and … kill crabs.
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It’s not whether we’re responsible, but whether we’re prepared that counts
I’ve been meaning to write something about the questions prompted by the California wildfires. The Mustache helped me this weekend by picking out what is, in my view, exactly the wrong question: "Did we do that?" Most news stories and blog posts that tried to connect the wildfires with climate change were constructed around that […]