Sam Bloch

It's another summer scorcher, and people are trying to hide from the sun, however they can. Why is SHADE hard to find in cities? My book argues it protects human health, enhances urban life, and could even save the planet. Preorder here! penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672379/s…

"One reason the pandemic so damaged America’s collective sanity is that it forced us to live on the internet ... our informational pandemic is just getting started." nytimes.com/2025/07/18/opi…

It’s a natural resource we don’t think about often. Public health depends on it more than ever. slate.trib.al/8CnFpJu

"What if the key to that life is older than civilization itself? We need to manage heat to live. And we have an effective and democratic way of doing it: shade," @samkbloch writes: theatln.tc/dx3OPfRx

It’s proven that increasing shade cover will save lives. So why are American cities so opposed to building it? @ericdeanwilson reviews a new book that looks at why we’re drunk on sun. thebaffler.com/latest/no-just…

.@lisaskwon and @samkbloch talk his new book "Shade," Los Angeles’s rollbacks on solutions to extreme heat, challenging demonizing narratives about shade, and shade advocacy that isn’t rooted in volunteerism. lareviewofbooks.org/article/its-on…

“Perhaps because we’ve become so adept at cooling inside spaces with air conditioning, we’ve forgotten the importance of cooling outside spaces, too. There is no technology that cools the outdoors as effectively as a tree.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

What safe drinking water and clear air were to the 20th century, shade could be to the climate-changed 21st. Read an excerpt from my new book (out today!) in @TheAtlantic: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“Instead, heat’s imprint is seen in empty streets, work slowdowns, cognitive decline, and hospital bills. When autumn arrives and temperatures relent, heat leaves no discernable trace.” ⁦@samkbloch⁩ theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

"What if the key to that life is older than civilization itself? We need to manage heat to live. And we have an effective and democratic way of doing it: shade," @samkbloch writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

This is awesome, and assuming this guy doesn't die, reminds me of Dan Barber's idea of comfort reparations — willingly sacrificing our share of thermal comfort to ensure it's available for those who really need it abc15.com/news/uplifting…

the great darkening has arrived. read my convo with @samkbloch about his new book Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource for @LAReviewofBooks and let us all get shade-pilled lareviewofbooks.org/article/its-on…

OSHA Just Reduced the Value of a Worker’s Life - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/16072025/…

A drop in air pollution in East Asia drove a surge in warming, a new study finds. e360.yale.edu/digest/asia-ai…