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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All these green initiatives, oy
Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott just announced a comprehensive new initiative called “Sustainability 360,” which will attempt to infuse environmental concern in every part of the company’s operations: “Sustainability 360 takes in our entire company – our customer base, our supplier base, our associates, the products on our shelves, the communities we serve,” said Scott. “And […]
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Lots of stuff happening
Tom Whipple — as usual, ahead of the curve on energy issues — writes about the recent bustle of activity around electric cars. He concludes: Be it a Ford, a Chevy, or an Asian econobox, 2007 just might turn out to be the birth year for practical electric cars. URGE2, baby! (via EB)
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A primer
Over on E&E News, reporter Darren Samuelsohn has a fantastic special report on the much-ballyhooed "climate stabilization wedges" notion made famous by Princeton professors Robert Socolow and Stephen Pacala. This is something you’ll be hearing a lot more about in coming weeks and months; if you need a quick, digestible primer on what wedges are, […]
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It dates back to the mid-20th century
There’s something strange and disturbing about the fact that what Naomi Oreskes says here is in an opinion column rather on than the front page of the news section. It is, from the perspective of public education and policymaking, the single most relevant fact about climate change: the basic consensus about it is longstanding and […]
