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  • How Resilience Hubs Can Help Communities Face The Heat And The Climate Emergency

    July 31, 2023 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Trusted and popular community buildings across Los Angeles are being retrofitted with solar panels and batteries, so they can also function as resilience hubs during extreme heatwaves or other disasters. This way, they provide helpful resources outside of disaster protection and people are more likely to use them.

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  • Are Cooling Materials A Solution To Fight Urban Heat?

    July 27, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    A neighborhood group and a roofing company in Los Angeles, California, painted streets, parking lots, and a schoolyard with a “cool pavement” coating that reflects the heat from the sun. The coating keeping the surface cooler and providing relief from the urban heat island effect.

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  • These thermal images show how Phoenix uses technology to keep cool

    July 26, 2023 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    The Office of Heat Response and Mitigation works to address the urban heat effect caused by intense summer temperatures. The Office has worked on several practices like coating streets and surfaces in light-colored, water-based asphalt treatments that reflect sunlight and absorb less heat than standard pavement. So far, 100 miles of residential roads have been covered in the treatment and roads with the treatment have an average surface temperature that is 10.5 to 12 degrees Fahrenheit lower than traditional asphalt.

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  • Once cold, now too hot: Efforts to cut rising temperature in Nigeria's plateau intensifies

    July 04, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Obanliku, Cross River

    The nonprofit Africa Research Association Managing Development teaches communities in Obanliku, Nigeria, to run their own businesses in things like gardening, soap making, and marketing, and helps establish cocoa cooperatives to keep them from depending on deforestation for income. The program also requires communities to designate parts of the forest for conservation and trains members to protect those areas.

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  • The white roofs cooling women's homes in Indian slums

    June 28, 2023 |

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    Response Location: India, Jodhpur, Rajasthan

    The nonprofit Mahila Housing Trust provides women in India who are particularly vulnerable to extreme heat and heat-related illness with white solar reflective paint for the roofs of their homes. Painting the roofs white cools the inside of the homes by several degrees.

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  • Laudato Trees Planting Program Enlists Catholic Properties to Help Increase DC's Canopy

    May 25, 2023 |

    National Catholic Reporter |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    A collaboration between tree-planting organizations in Washington D.C. helps Catholic church properties to plant and care for trees. The free trees are an effort to combat urban heat and benefit the local environment.

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  • What life in the blue bus says about the challenge to help the homeless

    March 29, 2023 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    The Nomad Alliance bus is a warming center on wheels that provides people experiencing homelessness a safe place to stay. The bus accepts anyone who needs help, so long as they help keep the bus clean, and can take in about 20 people at a time.

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  • A chilling effect: How farms can help pollinators survive the stress of climate change

    March 05, 2023 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

    By going a step further than pollinator strips and hedgerows to create complex landscape structures, farmers create refugia with cooler microclimates that help pollinators and other animals acclimate and survive increasing temperatures.

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  • A ‘climate solution' that spies worry could trigger war

    February 27, 2023 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    The solar geoengineering practice of spraying sulfur into the sky with airplanes could shield the earth from the sun’s rays and cool global temperatures similar to a volcanic explosion.

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  • Reimagining Schoolyards to Improve Health and Learning

    February 22, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Green Schoolyards America is launching the California Schoolyard Forest System in partnership with the California Department of Education and other area groups to develop schoolyard forests at K-12 schools to provide shade for students as temperatures continue to rise. Planting more trees on campuses can help protect children from heat-related health issues and promote more physical activity during recess.

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