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 - Page 12
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There Will be Another Nuclear Meltdown Every 10 Years, Report Says
There's going to be a major nuclear reactor meltdown every 10-20 years, a new report argues. But that doesn't necessarily mean we need despair.
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There's So Much Fracking in Pennsylvania That Indie Bands and World-Famous Hitchhiking Directors Can't Find Hotels
So this is a pretty surreal story.
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Ol' Keystone XL Will Raise Gas Prices After All: New Report
Wasn't this thing supposed to lower gas prices and create like 10 million jobs?
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The Decline and Fall of the Nation's Top Climate-Denying Think Tank
As donors, staff, and supporters flee, the nation's top climate change-denying think tank circles the drain.
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David Foster Wallace's Advice for Graduating Environmentalists Still Resonates
The brilliant writer who met a tragic end gave an inspiring speech 7 years ago; it's worth revisiting this graduation season.
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The Charcoal Bicyclists of Deforestation-Ravaged Mozambique
After chopping, burning, and packaging up what was once old growth forest, this charcoal-hauling cyclist will embark on a 70 km ride to sell his goods.
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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.
