Penguin Speakers Bureau
Biography
David Owen has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1991. Before joining The New Yorker, he was a contributing editor at The Atlantic Monthly, and prior to that, a senior writer at Harper’s and a frequent contributor to Esquire. He is also a contributing editor at Golf Digest, and the author …
Read moreDavid Owen has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1991. Before joining The New Yorker, he was a contributing editor at The Atlantic Monthly, and prior to that, a senior writer at Harper’s and a frequent contributor to Esquire. He is also a contributing editor at Golf Digest, and the author of a dozen books. He lives in northwest Connecticut with his wife, writer Ann Hodgman, and their two children.
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Speaking Topics
- Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
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Green Metropolis
"David Owen always delights with his elegant insights and his challenges to conventional thinking. In this book, he does so again by puncturing the myth of ecological Arcadia and reminding us why living in cities is the best way to be green. It’s a triumph of clear thinking and writing.” —Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein: His Life and Universe 
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Media
- David Owen at the Wheeler Centre's Deakins Lectures 2010
- "Clean Living"—The Washington Post
- "Green Collars"—The New Yorker
- "Economy Vs. Environment"—The New Yorker
- "Why New York City is Greener Than Vermont"—Time magazine
- "Green Metropolis: David Owen's Manifesto of Urbanism"—Solutions
- "Going Green: What Cities Can Teach the Country"—NPR
- "How Traffic Jams Can Help the Environment"—The Wall Street Journal
- "Which is greener: Portland or New York? (guess again)"—The Portland Oregonian