L. Michael Buchsbaum
L. Michael Buchsbaum is an energy and mining journalist and industrial photographer based in Germany. Since the mid-1990s, he has covered the social, environmental, economic and political impacts of the transition from fossil fuels towards renewables for dozens of industry magazines, journals, institutions and corporate clients. Born in the U.S., he emigrated to Germany and Europe to better document the Energiewende. He is also the host of The Global Energy Transition Podcast.
Appalachian Phoenix: solar rises in the heart of the United States’ dying coal industry
Brown to Green: Germany’s pockmarked Lausitz becomes a solar powerhouse
Brownfields to greenfields: repurposing coal mines worldwide into renewable centers
Losing Lützerath: To save Germany, the occupied village must be destroyed
Pyrrhic coal exit: Germany’s bad bargain with energy colossus RWE
RWE transformed: Germany’s biggest energy producer, and one of the world’s dirtiest, leaps into renewables
Greening Speed: IEA says Russia’s war in Ukraine accelerating global shift to clean energy
Riding the Dead Cow: exploiting Argentina’s oil and gas reserves risks climate efforts
Can Germany’s Greens slam the door on its nuclear fleet?
Germany’s nuclear brinkmanship: politics and fear drive debate over last reactors