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Billy Fleming is a leading voice on the role of design in responding to the climate crisis in our cities, communities, and landscapes. His book, Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions, guides readers through case studies of people transforming their social, ecological, and economic systems in response to the climate crisis. It is both a celebration of action underway and a clarion call to the planners, designers, policymakers, and activists who are pushing this planet toward a future of collective flourishing. 

The event will include a panel discussion with Billy Fleming, Shalanda Baker, and Jen Maigret, moderated by Kathy Velikov.

Billy Fleming is founding codirector of the Climate and Community Institute, a progressive think tank focused on climate and political economy, and assistant professor of landscape architecture at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia. Fleming was the inaugural Wilks Family Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania and an urban policy advisor to the Obama administration. He is coeditor of Design with Nature Now (2019) and A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation: Uniting Design, Economics, and Policy (2021).