Public Assembly is an environmental strategy and advisory practice working on renewable energy siting, carbon and water markets, forest restoration, and regional land-use planning in the United States and abroad.

The capital and the technology for the climate transition are already here; the barrier is matching them to the logic of each site. Siting, storage, and reallocation are the same kind of problem — spatial, regulatory, and financial at once — and whether a given project happens turns as much on ecological fit and a willing community as on the engineering. The analysis that reads those constraints together is chronically undersupplied. Public Assembly works where they meet, combining spatial analysis, remote sensing, environmental economics, and policy research to inform the planning and investment decisions that decide what gets built.

Public Assembly is the practice of Andrew Boyd, working in collaboration with conservation groups, labs, and agencies rather than as a standing staff. He spent a decade on large-scale public infrastructure at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and SCAPE, trained in landscape architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and completed a Master of Environmental Management at the Yale School of the Environment in 2026, with a focus on energy systems, environmental economics, and project finance.

• Siting and suitability analysis
  Multi-criteria spatial screening for renewable generation, transmission corridors, and geologic storage.
• Remote sensing and earth observation
  Satellite and drone-derived analysis of vegetation structure, water, and land-cover change.
• Carbon and water markets
  Measurement, benchmarking, and feasibility work supporting carbon finance and water transactions.
• Decision support and cartography
  Tools, maps, and reporting that make technical findings usable by agencies, boards, and communities.
• Policy and regulatory research
  Statutory, permitting, and governance analysis establishing what is actually buildable.