Alec Appelbaum writes and teaches to help all stakeholders act on climate challenges. He's written journalism and research for the New York Times, the Atlantic, Bloomberg CityLab, the Urban Land Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, and many others. He's taught about writing or climate or both at New York City high schools, Pratt Institute, NYU Stern School of Business, and in enrichment training for teachers in the New York City Department of Education. 

At CBEY, he coaches and edits students who write stories for the Clean Energy Finance Forum and Conservation Finance Network websites, and helps edit and write publications across the Center. He lives in Lower Manhattan, works in Brooklyn, and gets misty over New Haven.