Michael Buchsbaum is a German-American energy and industry journalist, photographer and podcaster.
After earning a master's degree in English, he took 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 took him to coal fields, gas fields and industrial centres around the world. But having witnessed so much human and natural destruction, he now uses his tools to advocate for a just, renewable energy transition.
Since moving to Europe in 2015, he has written and edited for Power Magazine, IRENA, the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogues, 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.
He has received a fellowship from the International Journalist's Programme, a Clean Energy Wire Cross-Border Grant, and major grants from the Illinois Humanities Council, and in October 2023 received the largest Journalismfund Europe Investigative Grant in its giving history to analyse carbon capture projects across Europe and their connection to increased oil and gas production. He also teaches English and Holocaust history.
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