Daniel Lerch is Education & Publications Director of the Post Carbon Institute, responsible for PCI’s educational efforts on community resilience and energy resource constraints. He has been the lead editor of PCI’s major publications over the last decade, most recently The Community Resilience Reader (2017). He is the author of Post Carbon Cities (2007) and was the founding chair of the Sustainable Communities Division of the American Planning Association.
Portland, Oregon (with a metropolitan area population of 2.3 million people) regularly tops the lists of “most sustainable cities” in the United States. For decades, Portland has been a ...