As far as the environment is concerned, the past year will bear two mantles above all: the Year of Obama and the Year of Copenhagen. Greens cheered as the Obama administration threw U.S. ... Read More...
As far as the environment is concerned, the past year will bear two mantles above all: the Year of Obama and the Year of Copenhagen. Greens cheered as the Obama administration threw U.S. ... Read More...
With the still-booming human population climbing toward the nine billion mark -- where it will hopefully stabilize, fingers crossed -- the demand for natural resources has never been higher, and the pressures on animal populations ... Read More...
So you wake up one day, after a full night’s sleep, and you’re feeling good. You sip some coffee, you read the paper. Maybe a morning dove chirps from your windowsill. Today’s the day, you ... Read More...
When you live in a place with a military junta-run government, you’re apt to be denied certain freedoms—like the freedom to say "no" to said junta if it wishes to enlist you in forced labor. So ... Read More...
TreeHugger Posts
This is why we won't be seeing an Earth Day Pt. 2. Read More...
Illuminating. Obama discusses who he's got on his iPod on the View, along with revealing an encouraging ignorance to Jersey Shore. Read More...
Friend Keith Wagstaff had a cool cover story run in the Village Voice a bit back. Check it out. Read More...
Or maybe it was -- I don't remember the decade all that well. All the requisite ingredients: opulent synth lines, huge vocal hooks, massive chorus, general over-the-top exuberance. Awesome. Read More...
Brian Merchant is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn, NY. He specializes in a wide range of topics — notably politics, climate issues, refugee affairs, and independent music. He has written for Salon.com, Paste, GOOD, Death + Taxes, the Huffington Post, and Vice’s Motherboard, among many others. He covers climate and energy politics at TreeHugger.com, and writes a weekly column about Getting Samy Out of Burma for GOOD magazine.
He has appeared on a number of radio shows, including CBS News and the Thom Hartmann Show, and had a regularly occurring spot on Hollywood Clout! on Air America before the network disbanded. His work has been featured on the front page of Yahoo.com, and he’s been quoted in publications from the Atlantic to the Week.
In the climate and policy arena, he has interviewed and/or participated in roundtables with many of the major players — including Senator Jeff Merkley, the physicist/writer Joe Romm, and Bill Clinton.
He’s gone on assignment to locales such as Ecuador, Geneva, Italy, and most recently, the the Gulf Coast, where he covered the BP spill for TreeHugger.
Also an avid fan of independent music, Brian has chronicled the subject with dozens of published album reviews, essays, Q&As, and stories. He’s interviewed the likes of Vampire Weekend, the Dirty Projectors, Fleet Foxes, and Grizzly Bear.
Since he prefers writing in the third person, he will continue doing so for the remainder of this explanatory bio — Who knows? Perhaps he will end up creating the impression that he is exceptionally professional, and that he can afford to outsource the task of writing the ‘About Me’ segment on his personal website.
Brian has also taken on non-journalistic assignments such as marketing consulting and public speaking from time to time. He is 100% freelance, and will try anything once. Contact him at briancmerchant (at) gmail (dot) com.