Michael Graham Richard
Michael has been with TreeHugger since 2005. He started out as a part-time writer, but after about a year (circa February 2006) he made the transition to full-time editor-in-chief. He held that role until January 2008 (the highlight of this period was of course the acquisition of TreeHugger.com by the Discovery Channel), and he's now editor of the Science & Technology and the Cars & Transportation categories (his two main loves).
It was reading The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken and Good News For A Change by David Suzuki and Holly Dressel that changed his life. Before that, he knew about the problems, but didn't think too much about them. After, he knew there were solutions, and he couldn't think about anything else.
Michael's personal blog can be found at MichaelGR.com. You can also follow him on Google+.
Latest Stories from Michael Graham Richard - Page 11
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Elon Musk: New York Times controversy cost Tesla around $100m and resulted in order cancellations
Tesla CEO Elon Musk sat down with Betty Liu of Bloomberg TV to discuss the Model S electric car, how production is going, what are Tesla's goals, and what the fallout from the New York Times controversy has been.
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Honda Fit EV joins Zipcar's Portland fleet
After San Francisco, it's now Portland's turn to get some Honda Fit EVs. Zipcar has announced that it has started incorporating the EVs, with the first units going to the Portland State University (PSU)
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Updated 2013 Hyundai Sonata hybrid has better MPG, a bigger battery, and cheaper price tag
The 2013 Hyundai Sonata hybrid has an improved drivetrain that provides better overall fuel economy and better electric-only performance.
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TaxiBot robotic tug reduces airplane emissions and noise pollution
Airplanes waste a lot of fuel on the ground. To taxi around airports, from passenger gates to runways, planes are powered by their main engines which simply aren't optimized for that task. This creates a lot of unnecessary CO2 emissions, air pollution, an
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'Best Bus Stop Ever' (Video)
Do we need better marketing for public transportation? It's a question worth asking.
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The Great Lakes vacationing in... Europe
Sometimes the best way to get an idea of the scale of something is to change the context.
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SolarCity and Honda, sitting in a tree...
What's interesting about the 65 million dollars that the American division of Honda is investing with SolarCity is that the car-maker isn't just creating a fund to finance solar systems. It's also trying to market Solar to its customers.
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Bottlenose dolphins may call each other by name
It was already known that dolphins are taught signature whistles by their mothers, but their function was not entirely clear. New data shows they might be used similarly to names.
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261 MPG Volkswagen XL1 diesel plug-in hybrid to be produced in limited quantities
After two prototype generations, VW has decided to make limited quantities of the third generation of its incredibly fuel-efficiency XL1, formerly known as the 1-liter car.
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Ontario might get a 400MW pumped storage station five times the height of Niagara Falls
While grid-scale liquid metal batteries might be a more exciting technology, good old pumped hydro storage is one of the ways we can store power from intermittent sources (like solar & wind) or shift supply around (from the night to peak use).
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Are plug-in cars selling badly?
Electric cars are selling rather well. Does that sound controversial? Let's see how the reality stacks up against what the media has been saying.
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Tesla vs. New York Times: Epilogue
In case you missed it, there was a huge controversy last week surrounding a review of the Tesla Model S electric car and Tesla's East Coast Supercharger network published in the New York Times.
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Different name, same liquid metal batteries!
Few technologies excite me more than grid-scale liquid metal batteries. They're not as fully developed as other green technologies such as plug-in vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels, but they have the potential to have a gigantic impact.
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Walkonomics: How walkable is that street?
No, Walkonomics is not a new blog by Steven Levitt. Rather, it's a new entrant to the field of walkability rating, joining the current leader Walk Score, but taking a different approach.
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55,000-year-old 'urine layers' used to track climate change
There are many ways for scientists to look back through time. Ice cores, tree rings, sediment layers, carbon-dating, fossils, etc. But some ways are more unexpected...
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Young couple cycling around the world killed in Thailand road accident
Peter Root and Mary Thompson, both only 34 years old, were on an epic bike trip around the world. They were killed in a road accident last Wednesday in Chachoengsao Province, Thailand, near Bangkok.
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New York City mayor wants 10,000 new electric car charging spots
One of the great things about electric vehicles is that they not only get better quickly as new generations of batteries and power electronics come out, but even existing EVs get more useful over time as more fast charging stations are built everywhere.
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U.S. added 147 megawatts of geothermal energy in 2012
Geothermal power has a promising future, but so far it has lagged behind most of its other renewable energy cousins, especially wind and solar.
