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Michael Buchsbaum is a German-U.S. American energy and industry journalist, photographer
and podcaster.
After earning a master’s in English, he began taking both pen and camera underground to document the coal cultures of North America and Europe. Assignments from dozens of magazines, trade journals, institutional and corporate clients sent him to coalfields, gas patches and industrial centers worldwide. But after witnessing so much human and natural destruction, he now uses his tools to advocate for a just, renewable energy transition.
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Relocating to Europe in 2015, since then he has written and edited for Power Magazine, IRENA, the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogs, Deutsche Welle and Europe Beyond Coal and served as the lead writer for the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Energytransition.org platform, publishing nearly 200 blogs, podcasts and articles between 2018 and 2024.
The recipient of an International Journalist’s Programme Fellowship, Clean Energy Wire Cross-Border Grant and Major Illinois Humanities Council Grants, in October of 2023 he received the largest Journalismfund EU Investigative grant in their giving history to analyze carbon capture projects across Europe and their connection of increased oil and gas production. He also teaches English and Holocaust history.
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CONTACT: MICHAEL@BUCHSBAUM-MEDIA.COM