David E. Blockstein, Ph.D. is the co-Director of Solve Climate by 2030 a project of the Bard College Center for Environmental Policy. The project is organizing the WorldWide Teach-In on Climate and Justice set for March 30, 2022 www,worldwideteachin.org. David is an ecologist and conservation biologist with more than 30 years of national leadership at the interface of science and environmental policy. He has worked on a wide range of science and policy issues including climate change and energy education, biodiversity policy, sustainability, increasing the representation of minorities in science, mechanisms to improve the linkages between science and decision making on environmental issues, and digital communication of scientific information on the environment. He has formed and led six non-profit organizations in environmental education, science and policy. He has written federal legislation, organized congressional hearings and has been active in many political campaigns.
David helped to create the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE), with a mission to improve the scientific basis of environmental decisionmaking, and was its first Executive Director in 1990, when it was known as the Committee for the National Institute for the Environment. He was the principal organizer of 15 NCSE national conferences and global forums on science, policy and the environment. He founded and helped lead the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD), the Council of Energy Research and Education Leaders (CEREL), the US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development and the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS). He and Leo Weigman wrote The Climate Solutions Consensus: What We Know and What to Do About It published by Island Press.