Sam Bloch is an environmental journalist and the author of Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource (Random House), a “compelling … conversation-starter” (NPR) and New Yorker Best Book of 2025 that changes the way we think about a critical resource that should be available to all.
He has covered the intersection of climate change and urban design for Places Journal, Slate, CityLab, Landscape Architecture Magazine, and The New York Times, and written about arts and music for L.A. Weekly, Art in America, Artnet, and and other publications. Previously, he was a staff writer at The Counter, where he reported on food and agriculture.
Bloch is a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School, and a former MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow and Emerson Collective Fellow. He is based in New York, where he lives with his partner and their son.