We look here at the policy, politics, science and economics of environmental protection, sustainability, energy and climate change.

Bill Hewitt has been an environmental activist and professional for nearly 25 years.  He was deeply involved in the battle to curtail acid rain, and was also a Sierra Club leader in New York City.  He spent 11 years in public affairs for the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation, and worked on environmental issues for two NYC mayoral campaigns and two presidential campaigns.  He is a writer and editor and is the principal of Hewitt Communications.  He has an M.S. in international affairs, has taught political science at Pace University, and has graduate and continuing education classes on climate change, energy and the environment, and clean tech at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs.  His book, A Newer World – Politics, Money, Science, Technology and What’s Really Being Done to Solve the Climate Crisis, is forthcoming from the University Press of New England early in 2012