Brian Merchant
Brian Merchant is a freelance writer and editor living in Brooklyn, NY. He covers politics for TreeHugger, with a focus on climate and energy issues. Brian has written for Slate, Paste, Salon, GOOD, and the Huffington Post, among many others. He pens the column Getting Samy Out of Burma, and is the editor and founder of the blog the Utopianist.
Brian Merchant can be reached at brianmerchant (at) treehugger (dot) com. Website: brianmerchant.com.
Latest Stories from Brian Merchant
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World's First Ethanol Cooking Fuel Plant Opens in Mozambique
Part of a venture aimed at knocking charcoal out of the market in Africa, the Dondo biofuel plant turns locally grown cassava into ethanol.
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How Deadly Charcoal is Bought and Sold in an African Market
Every day, millions of Africans buy charcoal for cooking.
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Charcoal Kills 2 Million People & Vast Swaths of Forest Every Year. Can Biofuel Stop the Carnage?
A new venture seeks to produce sustainably farmed, clean-burning biofuel, turn a profit, and end the ills of charcoal in Mozambique—in one fell swoop.
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NASA Discovers Yet Another Terrifying Global Warming Feedback Loop
As if the melting methane-packed permafrost and shrinking Arctic ice sheets weren't enough.
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Crowd-Sourced Map of NYC's Bike Share Stations Unveiled
Here's a first look at where New York City's 600 incoming bike sharing stations will go.
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Tea Party Organizers, Think Tanks Coordinate Plan to Attack Wind Power Nationwide
Conservative activists are working with think tanks and local NIMBY groups to coordinate an assault on wind projects.
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New Bill Unveiled to Kill $113 Billion in Fossil Fuel Subsidies
The "End Polluter Welfare Act" would strip federal handouts to the nation's most profitable companies.
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Thanks to Fracking, PR Industry is Booming
The public relations effort to sell America on fracking is a major job creator, the Onion reports.
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Shareholders Call on Bank of America to Stop Funding Mountaintop Removal
At a raucous protest inside and outside of its annual shareholder meeting, activists hit B of A for bankrolling coal.
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Microsoft Imposes a Carbon Price on Itself
The tech giant announced that it will be carbon neutral by the next fiscal year. To do so, it's essentially enacting a carbon pricing system on its own operations.
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Anti-Climate Group Compares 62% of Americans to Serial Killers, Loses $1 Million in Sponsors
The Heartland Institute's position was too extreme for many high-profile donors and supporters, who quickly distanced themselves from their latest ill-advised ad campaign.
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Coal Kicks Ass Like NASCAR and Beer and Dale Earnhardt Jr, Says Coal Lobby
If you don't like coal, you're probably anti-American.
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1,000 Rallies in 100 Countries 'Connect the Dots' on Extreme Weather & Climate Change
From Pakistan to Colorado to Mongolia, concerned citizens gathered to 'Connect the Dots' in a series of creative protests last Saturday. The event yielded some amazing photos—take a look:
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Disturbing Gulf Spill Photos of Oiled Sea Turtles Unearthed
NOAA kept dozens of photos of oiled sea turtles and dead wildlife out of the public eye during the height of the spill.
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Occupy's May Day: Tens of Thousands Protest the Mess that's Being Made of the Planet
May Day showed that the thirst for grassroots protest is still growing, and that public anger is aimed at banks, DC, and the polluting 1%. Can it be harnessed?
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"Charles Manson Still Believes in Global Warming. Do You?" Dumbest Anti-Climate Campaign. Ever.
The Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, buys a series of billboards that compares people who believe in climate change to mass murderers. Stay classy, HI.
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Citizens Contribute Over 1 Million Observations to National Nature Database
The one millionth observation was registered on the US National Phenology Network today. What's phenology? So glad you asked ...
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Romney Resurrects Solyndra, Claims Obama Blew it on Clean Energy
Yes, the GOP is already trying to make Solyndra a campaign issue.
