Adam Aston is a business journalist, writer, editor and analyst specializing in energy, environment, science and technology. 

In 2022, he joined RMI, formerly The Rocky Mountain Institute, as chief storyteller, working across the institute’s 500 analysts, consultants, and creators to advance the institute’s mission to transform “the global energy system to secure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future for all.”

In 2014, he co-founded T Brand Studio at The New York Times, a world-class team of journalists, designers, videographers, coders, and strategists who create branded content on behalf of Times advertising partners. To see the best of the studio’s work, visit tbrandstudio.com.

As a writer, he focuses on solutions-based and explanatory storytelling, with a strength in data visualization. His expertise spans renewable and conventional energy, efficiency, transportation, cities, design, green finance and corporate sustainability.

Aston’s bylines have appeared in The Guardian, NRDC’s OnEarth, Ensia.com, GreenBiz.com and Corporate Knights. He has also written for The New York Times, MIT Technology Review, environment:YALE, Global CCS Institute and The Fiscal Times.

As a business writer, ghostwriter and editor, he has worked with companies and consultancies including IBM, SAP, EY (Ernst & Young), Framework ESG, Frog Design, Morgan Stanley, CPP Investments, and McKinsey & Co. He has collaborated with a range of non-profit and academic partners, including the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), Solar1, Climate Counts and Columbia University.

Over nine years at BusinessWeek, Aston was the magazine’s first energy and environment editor. Previously, he also worked in Hong Kong at the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), covering business, economic and political news across Asia.

He is a current or past member of numerous professional groups, including the Society of Environmental Journalists, the National Association of Science Writers, Science Writers in New York, and the International Motor Press Association.

A native of Pittsburgh, Aston graduated from Princeton University and lives in Brooklyn, where he is a avid cyclist, an aspiring yogi and an occasional beekeeper.

Find more at linkedin.com/adamaston, adamaston.com or @adamanyc.