Paul Gordon is a Chicago-based environmental journalist, photographer and arborist. His work appears in The Nation, Grist, The New Lede, Sierra Magazine, Belt Magazine, Civil Eats, Clean Energy Wire and In These Times. Gordon graduated from DePaul university where he studied international relations and journalism. During summers in college, he worked in conservation across the East Coast for US Fish and Wildlife and the National Park Service. After finishing school, Gordon worked in conservation and field ecology for the National Audubon Society, Forest Preserves of Cook County, and Fermilab. After being awarded the Congress-Bundestag Exchange Fellowship, he worked as a correspondent for Clean Energy Wire in Berlin and furthered his education in journalism at Freie Universität.