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Marc Lefkowitz

Marc Lefkowitz is a journalist who has written extensively about environmental and community development issues in Northeast Ohio. A former editor of the popular GreenCityBlueLake(gcbl.org) blog on sustainability topics, Lefkowitz covers solutions to the climate crisis, the push for more equity, and the draw of innovators and visionaries to environment work. A regular bike commuter and transit rider, Lefkowitz lives in Cleveland Heights with his family.

Marc's Latest Articles

New York’s ‘Streetfighter’ calls for more car-free streets as response to pandemic

By Marc Lefkowitz ● Uncategorized ● December 3, 2020

Cleveland will squander a perfect crisis, as the saying goes, if it puts all the pieces back in the same pre-pandemic order, former New York City Transportation Commissioner, Janette Sadik-Kahn told a Zoom audience at the University Circle, Inc. annual meeting.

To create a more sustainable Cleveland, focus on equity, summit leaders say

By Marc Lefkowitz ● Government ● October 16, 2020

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, calling these “not normal” times, opened the 12th city-run Sustainability Summit from his desktop computer rather than the podium of Public Auditorium. The mayor, who initiated the annual event in 2009 and has long insisted the formation of his Sustainability Office isn’t about the environment so much as a focus on green jobs, called on the environmental community to embrace social equity.