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 world’s expert on recycled energy discusses … recycled energy
All across the nation, factories and power plants are wasting energy — lots and lots of it. If that energy could be captured and put to good use, greenhouse gas emissions could be substantially reduced, at a profit. Thomas Casten has been proclaiming this good news for almost 30 years now. Not only that, he’s […]
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Good ideas, those
Of the many stupid things this country’s leadership has done since 9/11, perhaps none was so stupid as violating a basic principle of conflict that dates back to Sun Tzu: Unite your friends and divide your enemies. Instead, they have needlessly fractured our alliances and spent a great deal of time lumping every scary brown […]
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One economist says no
James Galbraith gets to the heart of the dilemma facing climate change economics: The market’s real failure is that it allows for no signal from the future to the present, either from the conditions that will exist 30 years hence or from the people who will be alive and working then. The question becomes: Can […]
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Friday music blogging: Gonzales
Wow, I sure am glad it’s Friday. I’m exhausted. Not the kind of exhausted where you want music that will re-energize you, but the kind of exhausted where you want something nice and soothing to help you turn off and unload the week’s worries. Solo Piano, an album by an artist known cryptically as Gonzales, […]
