About Me
Michael was born in 1982. He lives in Gatineau, Québec, Canada.
Currently a full-time journalist/blogger, he has been with TreeHugger since May 2005. Between March 2006 and January 2008, he was editor-in-chief. Since February 2008, he is editor of the Science & Technology and of the Cars & Transportation categories and that gives him more time for his first love, writing. As of August 2007, his employer is Discovery, the company that bought TreeHugger.
He also writes a weekly environmental column for the Huffington Post.
His mother would like you to know that he has been interviewed or cited by, among others, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Independent, the LA Times, Wired, etc. One of his articles was prominently featured on the front page of Yahoo.com, the most popular site on the Internet.
A generalist autodidact (aspiring to polymath status), he is curious about everything, including in no particular order: the environment and all related fields, literature, science, technology, music, politics, history, economics and various social issues.
He has two law degrees from the University of Ottawa, one in Civil Law (LL.L.) and one in Common Law (LL.B.).
He serves on the advisory board of the Lifeboat Foundation (motto: “Safeguarding Humanity”), along with many other people including Nobel Laureates Sir Clive W.J. Granger and Eric S. Maskin.
He is not jewish, but he likes to dance to klezmer music when he’s alone and nobody can see how badly he moves.
Michael does not usually refer to himself in the third person.
Here is a picture of me at a piano I found in one of the halls of the Château Frontenac in Québec city.
Self-portrait, reflected in a window.
Melanie & I in Montebello.
Melanie & I, before going to a wedding.
