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As heat island effects worsen due to climate change, cities try to adapt

As heat island effects worsen due to climate change, cities try to adapt
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How the Biden admin plans to use buildings to temper heat

How the Biden admin plans to use buildings to temper heat
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Southern Star Amidst the Pandemic: Jackson, Mississippi Leads on Climate Change, Equity, and Health

tag Early in 2020, the city of Jackson received a Leadership in Community Resilience grant from NLC to design and activate its Heat Preparedness Plan. Through a series of targeted interviews, surveys, and focus groups with frontline residents, the team set out to better understand how Jackson’s most at-risk residents perceive the dangers of extreme heat, and how they typically prepare for these often-life-threatening events. Although it is now winter across much of the US and the worst of the summer heat has subsided, it is easy to forget that 2020 was a record-breaking year for extreme heat (again): August was the warmest summer on record

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Jackson hires consultants to help implement climate change plan

Jackson hires consultants to help implement climate change plan By Anthony Warren | January 19, 2021 at 5:03 PM CST - Updated January 20 at 9:30 AM JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A team of experts from across the country could help Jackson’s poorest residents better deal with the effects of climate change. On Tuesday, the Jackson City Council approved bringing on seven consultants/consulting firms to help draw up plans for its “Going Green for a Cool, Healthy Jackson” initiative. The consultants are being paid for with proceeds from a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Recently, the city received a nearly $476,000 award from the group to implement a climate change program.

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Warming Trends: School Lunches that Help the Earth, a Coral Refuge and a Quest for Cooler Roads

Warming Trends: School Lunches that Help the Earth, a Coral Refuge and a Quest for Cooler Roads A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier. December 12, 2020 Jordan Avenue, north of Hart Street is getting a new surface coating similar to slurry seal on May 20, 2017 in Canoga Park, California. Instead of traditional black asphalt, this coat is a concrete color designed to reflect heat. Credit: John McCoy/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images Related Hot Cities, Cool Roads A group of communities and organizations are partnering to find solutions to one symptom of a warming planet: the urban heat island effect.

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