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 Mustache discovers Van Jones
Tom Friedman just introduced Van Jones to a large new audience. All he had to do to make it a great column was get out of the way and let Van speak.
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Notable quotable
“I’m interested in good policy. Kyoto, I thought, was bad policy.” — George W. Bush
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Seattle Grist Reader Party — go get your tickets!
Hey, lemme guess, you got busy with other stuff and forgot to buy your ticket to the Grist Seattle Reader Party, which is taking place (whaaat?) tomorrow. Go get ’em, quick! They’re $20 now, but if you wait and buy them at the door they’re $25. That’s another whole drink you could have had. See […]
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Nature on ethanol
The editors at Nature discover that corn ethanol sucks: Biofuels are unlikely ever to be more than bit-players in the great task of weaning civilization from Earth’s coal-mine and oil-well teats. But they may yet have valuable niches — including some that allow them to serve some of the world’s poor, both as fuels for […]
