Lee Epstein

Lee Epstein is an urban planner and environmental lawyer who has published widely in both professional journals and the popular press.  He has a keen interest in climate change challenges and solutions.

 

Chicago urban farm

Nature in Cities and Cities in Nature

What is the current relationship of modern cities to nature?  Cities are important to nature in a backhanded kind of way: without these relatively compact human settlements we would require a lot of more of what now comprises important open, resource lands on which to live.

October 20, 2021

Trees

Carbon, Climate Policy, and the New Alchemy

Unless you live under a rock, you know that most reputable geophysical scientists around the world, especially climatologists and those who study the near-Earth atmosphere, will tell you they are very worried about carbon.

August 27, 2019