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 6
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May 11th is National Train Day!
May 11th, is the 6th annual National Train Day in the US! Time to celebrate!
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Oops. Dangerous Giant African Snail found in Texas turns out to be Rosy Wolf Snail
It looks like the Giant African Snail that was discovered in Houston, Texas, was actually a Rosy Wolf Snail, which is native to North-America.
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40+ gadgets in your pocket, without the e-waste
E-waste is a big problem, but there is also a counter-trend that helps fight it.
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Consumer Reports: Tesla Model S is 'best car we've ever tested' (Score: 99/100)
As if things weren't going well enough for Tesla Motors today, they just received the highest score ever given out by Consumer Reports.
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Tesla crushes earnings expectations, sold 4,900 EVs in Q1, stock up 100% year-to-date
Tesla has released its financials for the first quarter of 2013, and while Elon Musk, the company's CEO, had said that it would be their first profitable quarter, nobody expected it to be that profitable.
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Nissan cuts LEAF price by $15,000 in Australia
The international pricing of various products can sometimes be very weird...
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California bill would guarantee open access to charging stations for all EV drivers
The bill guarantees that plug-in vehicle owners (either plug-in hybrids or fully electric) will get some transparency from charging stations in the state.
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ESA Biomass satellite will "weight" the world's forests from orbit
The more we know about our planet and how its ecosystems function, the better we should be able to protect it (or at least know if what we're doing is working or not working).
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Dangerous invasive Giant African Snails discovered in Texas
An invasive species of Giant African Snails has been popping up all over the map recently, from Australia to the US.
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Mysterious cause of LED 'droop' identified, could lead to more efficient LED lights
If you increase the electrical current sent to a LED past a certain point, the amount of light produced will go down rather than up. This property of LEDs is called 'droop', and until recently scientists and engineers didn't know why it happened.
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Solar Impulse: Flying from San Francisco to New York City in a solar plane
The ultimate goal of the Solar Impulse sun-powered plane is to fly around the globe powered by only the sun's rays. But before you can run, you have to crawl and then walk...
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Tesla hires Aston Martin's chief of vehicle engineering, considers Google's "autopilot"
Electric car-maker Tesla has been making lots of announcements lately, and thankfully, unlike Fisker and Coda, the news are rather good.
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New discovery allows low-grade silicon to be turned into high-efficiency solar panels
Some technical breakthroughs are great because they push back the limits of what we can do, bringing us to new summits, while other are great because they allow us to do more with what we already have.
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Tesla improves Model S resale guarantee based on customer feedback
Gotta love a company that actually listens to feedback and implements changes that its customers requested.
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Investments in clean energy could reach $630 billion by 2030 (but probably more)
“Three years ago, we thought wind and solar would be cheap as chips, and they’ve even gone below that.”
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Oslo runs out of garbage, imports it from rest of the world
Oslo, the capital of Norway, has a strange garbage problem. Too much? No, not enough.
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Extremely important graph: Cost of solar headed for parity with coal and gas (and will later beat them)
We're headed for historic milestones in solar power production. These will change the face of human civilization.
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Clever MIT floating wind turbines can store power for when the wind doesn't blow
Wind and solar are growing rapidly worldwide, but because the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow, we need to find more ways to store energy.
