About Zev
Zev has been a visionary his entire life. Growing up in the Hollywood Hills, as a boy, he experienced the grinding congestion of Los Angeles highways. Seeking solutions, he envisioned a future where people got around cities via well-coordinated multimodal transportation systems with public trains and buses at the center, supported by bike lanes and pedestrian walkways — and little need for polluting cars. In college, he wrote a screenplay called Gridlock (before the word became popular) set in a positive future. Building upon this initial vision, Zev is writing a series of protopian novels representing a future that gets better every day!
He brings to his stories his educational background in evolutionary biology and environmental urban planning, plus 40 years as a sustainability consultant. Zev is an engaging story teller who weaves practical sustainable solutions into his mystery novels. He believes if people can see a realistic word that works better than today, these sustainable solutions can spark the imaginations of others and help move us all in a positive direction. Catapult is the first book now available in the “From Here to There” series.
He brings to his stories his educational background in evolutionary biology and environmental urban planning, plus 40 years as a sustainability consultant. Zev is an engaging story teller who weaves practical sustainable solutions into his mystery novels. He believes if people can see a realistic word that works better than today, these sustainable solutions can spark the imaginations of others and help move us all in a positive direction. Catapult is the first book now available in the “From Here to There” series.
It is not enough to have a vision. Without a plausible bridge, a strategy to get there, few people will leave the familiar for the sake of what could be.
- Zev Paiss