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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Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S. utilities
Rooftop solar panels and other distributed-energy tools will radically shake up the power sector, according to an unusually frank report from a utility trade group.
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Beyond less-bad to 100 percent fabulous: A chat with architect and sustainability thinker William McDonough
In McDonough's new book "The Upcycle," he and Michael Braungart think big about how we can remake society -- not to be less bad but to be really good.
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For the price of the Iraq War, the U.S. could have gotten halfway to a renewable power system
If we had spent $3.9 trillion on building renewables instead of fighting in Iraq, we could be generating around half of our electricity from clean power today.
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Nevada utility: Screw this, coal is more trouble than it’s worth
NV Energy has been shamed and embarrassed by the Reid Gardner coal plant one too many times. Now the utility has decided to get out of the coal game entirely.
