Selected Writing:
How Singapore became obsessed by shade (BBC, 2025)
Dreading Those Sunny Days: The Perils of Surviving Without Shade as a Homeless Person (LitHub, 2025)
AC Units Are Stifling More Sustainable Ways of Cooling Homes (TIME, 2025)
Like AC for the Outdoors (The Atlantic, 2025)
In a Hotter World, We Need to Get Over Our Fear of Shadows (New York Times, 2025)
Keeping Their Cool (Landscape Architecture Magazine, 2024)
Meet “La Sombrita,” the Shade Structure That Only Attracts More Heat (Slate, 2023)
Leveraging Louvres to Turn Off the Sunshine in L.A. (Assemble Papers, 2022)
License to Cool (Landscape Architecture Magazine, 2022)
What Does Extreme Heat Look Like? (Knight Science Journalism, 2022)
Why do Coca-Cola, Frito-Lay, and Mars get the best real estate in grocery stores? Because they pay for it. (The Counter, 2021)
After years of struggle, New York’s street food vendors win long-sought reforms (The Counter, 2021)
Climate Change Chic in the Garb-Age (Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, 2020)
Biden advisors push a new plan to slow global warming: A soil carbon bank for farmers (The Counter, 2020)
Alaskan salmon farmers to Trump: Leave the Tongass National Forest alone (The Counter, 2020)
Florida farm workers endure 116 dangerously hot working days every year growing season. Laws to protect them have failed three years in a row. (The Counter, 2020)
Chipotle is upcycling avocado pits to make t-shirts. Is this just more greenwashing? (The Counter, 2020)
Urban centers from Tampa to Cincinnati are opening street dining programs. Can they reimagine the American city? (The Counter, 2020)
From Algae Bars to Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, Current:LA Food Explores the Politics of Eating (Art in America, 2019)
The Problem With ‘Cool Pavements’: They Make People Hot (CityLab, 2019)
Shade (Places Journal, 2019)
You already know Cesar Chavez. What about Maria Moreno? (The Counter, 2019)
How America’s wild horses end up in slaughterhouses abroad (The Counter, 2019)
She blew the whistle on Koch Foods. This little-known visa kept her from being deported by ICE (The Counter, 2019)
Minneapolis becomes the first major American city to ban new drive-through windows (The Counter, 2019)
How big food companies are using the gun and tobacco industry playbook to thwart bold public health laws (The Counter, 2018)
If Washington doesn’t want USDA’s independent research arm, 136 other places say they do (The Counter, 2018)
The FCC says all of Iowa has access to broadband internet. Speed tests tell a different story. (The Counter, 2018)
If you want to understand everything that’s wrong with tipping, look to New York (The Counter, 2018)
In New York High Schools, the Sound of Music Is Muted (The New York Times, 2018)
When Will Long Island City’s Retail Arrive? (Commercial Observer, 2017)
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Failed to Disclose Their Multimillion-Dollar Art Collection (Artnet, 2017)
Touch My Body (Gold Los Angeles, 2016)
Working Folks, Not the Rich, Fight Density Near USC’s Expo Line (LA Weekly, 2015)
Jackie Treehorn’s House and Its Eccentric Owner (LA Weekly, 2013)
Mayan Apocalypse Parties (LA Weekly, 2012)
The Do Lab Built a Massive SoCal EDM Community. Next Stop: Egypt (LA Weekly, 2012)
Ice Cube and Charles and Ray Eames: Gangsters Making the World Go Round (LA Weekly, 2011)
Judy Chicago’s Upcoming Disappearing Environments: How Do You Make Art Out of Gigantic Pyramids of Dry Ice? (LA Weekly, 2011)
Media Appearances:
Sam Bloch, “Shade – The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource” (C-SPAN, Book TV, 2025)
Have we forgotten the value of shade? (ABC Radio National, Late Night Live with David Marr, 2025)
A new book makes the case for low-tech heat abatement in the form of shade (LAist, AirTalk with Larry Mantle, 2025)
Ancient cities knew the importance of shade. How did modern cities forget? (KCRW, Press Play with Madeleine Brand, 2025)
The case for throwing shade in cities where sun reigns (CBC, The Sunday Magazine with Piya Chattopadhyay, 2025)
Shade Inequality: Who Burns, Who Benefits (Andrew Yang Podcast, 2025)
Why We Need Shade in a Warming World (KQED, Forum, 2025)
Why we still need shade in an A.C. world (KERA, Think, 2025)
Where to seek shade in an ever warming world (NPR, 1A, 2025)
Shade Redux (99% Invisible, 2023)
Mental health support for Uvalde, one year later (Axios Today, 2023)
New York Conversation: Shade with Sam Bloch (Montez Press Radio, 2023)
Sam Bloch: Shade (SCI-Arc Channel, 2022)
GOP Senators Propose Smaller COVID Relief Bill, Will Joe Biden and Dems Make a Compromise? (iHeart Radio, The Daily Dive, 2021)
How Has a Year of Remote Learning Affected Childhood Nutrition? (Heritage Radio Network, The Big Food Question, 2021)
Heat is the deadliest aspect of climate change. It’s turning some underserved LA neighborhoods red hot (KCRW, To The Point, 2021)
Covid-19 Could Finally Push Michigan’s Service Workers to Unionize (WDET, 2020)
Shade (99% Invisible, 2020)
Meet LA’s new tree champion, Rachel Malarich (KCRW, Design and Architecture, 2019)
Shade: a luxury amenity in LA (KCRW, Design and Architecture, 2019)
After the floods (KCRW, Good Food, 2019)
