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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Honda fights to regain green car company mantle
Honda entered the hybrid market before Toyota, but over time it made a fateful mistake: it failed to visually distinguish its line of hybrids. The Prius’ distinct shape is like peacock feathers — it signals your identity to the world. Who wants to be virtuous if nobody knows about it? Now Honda’s gotten the message […]
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Dave’s Second Law of Sustainability Politics
Clean up coal emissions and you end up with more — and more toxic — coal ash. You get cleaner air, but you get ash that can’t be recycled (into, e.g., concrete). You breath free, but you’ve got arsenic and mercury leaching into your groundwater from coal-ash landfills. Look at this vintage coal magic: There […]
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Positive offset reinforcement
The Wall Street Journal has a big package … of stories on energy in their Energy Report. I think you need a subscription to see them; there’s a roundup here. I haven’t looked through everything yet, but I did like this smart, if brief, video on offsets: One of the things Gelobter’s outfit is trying […]
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Liquid coal coalition gears up to suck from the public teat
Mike Millikin brings word of the horrific goings-on at a recent conference on liquid coal. Witness: [Sen. Jay] Rockefeller [D-W.Va.], after saying that "coal is the single greatest chance our country has for achieving energy independence," outlined what he described as four key elements for building the coal-to-liquids industry. Build up military uses of coal-based […]
