Billy Fleming
Wilks Family Director,
Ian L. McHarg Center, University of Pennsylvania
Billy (he/him) is a founder and strategic co-director of Climate & Community Institute. He is the Wilks Family Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center in the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania and currently Diana Balmori Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture. Prior to joining Penn, he worked as a landscape architect, city planner, organizer, and, later, in the Obama Administration’s White House Domestic Policy Council. His writing on climate, disaster, and design has also been published in The Guardian, The Atlantic, CityLab, Dissent Magazine, Houston Chronicle, Jacobin, Places Journal, and Science for the People Magazine.
All Contributions
A New Era of Public Power
In 2019, New York State lawmakers passed the most ambitious state-level climate legislation in the country—and among the most ambitious in the world. The Climate Leadership …
A Green Stimulus for K-12 Schools
A Build It Back Better Stimulus is an essential opportunity to deliver a Green Stimulus for K-12 Schools. This stimulus would align directly with the Biden …
A Green New Deal for K-12 Public Schools
Public education in the United States has reached a critical point. Over the last 20 years, polling has shown that Americans are divided when it comes …
Critical Components of a School District COVID Education Plan
An already unequal school system, riven by inequalities of race, class, and gender, is under extraordinary stress from the worst pandemic and the worst economic meltdown …
A Green New Deal for Public Housing
We need a Green New Deal for Public Housing. We need a massive federal investment that would finally provide American public housing communities with healthy, comfortable, …
Inflation Reduction Act
After an excruciating year of negotiations and ceaseless pressure from the climate movement, Senators Manchin and Schumer came to a deal: the Inflation Reduction Act. If …
