A national leader in promoting community-based environmental education, Ken Leinbach helped transform an abandoned wasteland in the Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee into an economically and environmentally sustainable urban community center that has become an international model.
The Milwaukee Independent sat down with Leinbach on May 2, 2016 to talk about his efforts as a catalyst for systemic change of the community by leveraging green space, and the meaning of life based on the letter P.