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These thermal images show how Phoenix uses technology to keep cool

Allyson Chiu Erin Patrick O'Connor John Farrell

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

Patrick Obia

July 04, 2023 |

Prime Progress |

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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

Vandana K

June 28, 2023 |

BBC |

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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

Brian Roewe

May 25, 2023 |

EarthBeat |

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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

Marjorie Cortez

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

Lela Nargi

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

Michael Birnbaum

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

Carl Smith

February 22, 2023 |

Governing |

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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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Greenspace starts with grassroots

Jake Christie

February 15, 2023 |

Great Lakes Echo |

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Response Location: United States, Grand Rapids, Michigan

In Michigan, the organization Friends of Grand Rapids Parks is working to increase shade in the city by planting trees. With permission from landowners, they will plant and care for trees on the property.

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Free ACs staved off heat illness for older New Yorkers during pandemic

Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky

February 10, 2023 |

Gothamist |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

The Get Cool NYC program distributed air conditioner units to about 73,000 low-income seniors without access to ways to keep cool during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies show that those who participated in the program were less likely to experience heat-related illness than those who didn’t participate.

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