Brian Clark Howard has more than two decades of experience telling true stories in a variety of formats, from books to video, from magazine cover stories to blog posts. A sample of this work follows.
Features
Exclusive photos: A giant iceberg breaks off Antarctica
(From National Geographic)
Saving the Colorado River Delta, One Habitat at a Time
(From National Geographic)
Drunken Trees: Dramatic Signs of Climate Change
(From National Geographic)
Helix Collapse Fails to Crush Hope for Vertical Wind Turbines
(From National Geographic)
Ocean Advocates Find Silver Linings After Rio+20 Disappointment
(From National Geographic)
48 Environmental Victories Since the First Earth Day
(From National Geographic)
8 Mighty Rivers Run Dry From Overuse
(From National Geographic)
5 myths about recycling
(From The Washington Post)
The Controversial Plan for Drawing Clean Power From Old Oil Wells
(From TheAtlantic.com)
Feeding 44million: One in seven Americans now get by on food stamps
(From MailOnline.com)
‘This is about the human cost of war’: Los Angeles beach goers are reminded about sacrifices for independence by memorial
(From MailOnline.com)
Amazing Homes Built From Shipping Containers
(From The Daily Green, reposted at Popular Mechanics)
5 Years After Katrina, 1,000 Volunteers Help Rebuild New Orleans
(From The Daily Green)
5 Surprising Inventions from Famous People
(From Asylum.com)
17 Incredible Gifts Made from Recycled Materials
(From MSN)
7 Things You Didn’t Know About Light Bulbs But Should
(From Yahoo!)
When Wild Animals Attack: Encounter with a Rabid Skunk
(From Popular Mechanics)
Save a Jaguar, Treat Your Cows Well
(From Pacific Standard, formerly Miller-McCune magazine)
Planned Obsolescence: 8 Products Designed to Fail
(From the San Francisco Chronicle)
Grounds for Change: The Tempest Brewing in Your Morning Cup
(Cover story from E/The Environmental Magazine)
Message in a Bottle: Despite the Hype, Bottled Water is Neither CLEANER nor GREENER Than Tap Water
(Cover story from E/The Environmental Magazine)
Virtual Journalism in an Online ‘Second Life’
(From Editor and Publisher Online)
Body-Care Brawl: Tensions Mount Over Organic Labeling of “Hydrosol”
(From E/The Environmental Magazine)
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Multimedia
I shot and edited this video for National Geographic on the Shell Eco-Marathon 2012 in Houston, Texas, a race among high school and college students to build the most efficient vehicles.
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I produced an interactive feature (built in HTML 5) that shows the global water impact of crops Americans rely on every day. (From National Geographic)
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I produced, shot, and edited this video on green fashion for Eco-Chick.
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Native New Yorkers: The American Indian Identity of New York City. A multimedia journalism project researched and created by Brian Clark Howard and Maureen Googoo.
Although American Indians make up a small percentage of New York City’s current population, there are more of them in the Big Apple than in any other U.S. city. Today’s urban American Indians hail from a diverse range of tribes and places, and can be found working in all industries, including as leaders in professional sports, the arts, academics, healthcare and business. Through more than a dozen stories, with rich video and audio, learn about this dynamic community through their own voices, as they try to maintain their indigenous culture in a region dominated by newer immigrants.
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As a video I produced and shot for The Daily Green shows, five years after Hurricane Katrina, much of New Orleans is still badly damaged. Thousands of houses remain wrecked and abandoned, and tens of thousands of former citizens have not been able to come back.
More than 1,000 volunteers came together as part of the Fifty For Five event, to help 50 New Orleans families get their homes back into livable shape. Brian Clark Howard was on hand to report on the effort, and to pitch in on a few of the homes.
Although there’s much work that still needs to be done, it felt good to help make an impact for a few families.
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Film
I am co-producing a feature documentary on the Western Shoshone, the indigenous people of Nevada, and their historic struggle to save their land and way of life in the face of grave injustice. Joel L. Freedman is directing and producing. Watch the trailer.
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I edited the full-length feature film Toaster 66 (which I subtitle The Quest to Bring Electric Cars to Route 66), for Remy Chevalier. Watch the entire film free on YouTube here. We wanted to release the film in a more traditional way, but alas, the original tape got damaged in the heat of Remy’s cross-country trip, so we lost too much quality.
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Opinion
Global Warning
(from AlterNet)
Save the Snow
(from E/The Environmental Magazine online)
Battle of the Beaches
(from E/The Environmental Magazine online)
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Reprints
Many outlets have reprinted Brian’s work. A few of these include:
Yahoo!
MSN
The San Francisco Chronicle
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
St. Croix Valley Press (MN)
Hartford Advocate (CT)
Fairfield County Weekly (CT)
New Haven Advocate (CT)
The Huffington Post
Alternet
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Ghost reefs: Florida’s vibrant underwater cities are turning into relics
(From Changing America/The Hill)
California is one of many places wrestling with its climate change future
(From Changing America/The Hill)
The American Nile
(From National Geographic)
Historic New Climate Deal: Surprises, Snubs, and What it Really Means
(From National Geographic)