How is Boston working to address its vulnerability to sea level rise? An excerpt in Next City from my new book, Climate Change and the Future of Boston, lays out the context and challenges.

In a blog post for Anthem Press, I argue that while U.S. cities are limited in what they can accomplish without federal funding and enabling policies, there are reasons to be hopeful about what local action can achieve.

My new Substack newsletter will offer bimonthly essays about the urban environment. The premise is to look at urban areas as part of nature, and to explore the connections between what we build and the larger environment we inhabit.

Ten years after “Snowmageddon” buried Boston in 2015, I look back at that long couple of months and how winter in the city is changing.

WBUR Cognoscenti, February 6. 2025

As more of us adopt an air-conditioned lifestyle in places that once didn’t require it, we face a larger moral question: How can we properly respond to a warming world that we don’t personally experience?

WBUR Cognoscenti, August 27, 2024

Imagining and creating better cities requires seeing cities as nature, not separate from it.

Boston Globe, July 13, 2023

An interactive tour of one of the most important maps in the history of Boston Harbor's environmental management.

Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center

To save itself from sea level rise, Boston may need to rely on a practice it put in the past: filling the shoreline. That will require thoughtful changes to regulations, I argue in an opinion piece.

WBUR Cognoscenti, June 15, 2021

For much of its history, Boston was a maritime city -- is it still? I explore the question with John Duff.

ArchitectureBoston, March 1, 2018