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  • How a Colombian City Cooled Dramatically in Just Three Years

    Medellín, Colombia, is combating the urban heat island effect by creating green corridors across the city. Over 2.5 million plants and trees were carefully selected to maximize impact and planted on buildings and along roads and waterways.

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  • These farmworkers created America's strongest workplace heat rules

    To fight for safer working conditions, a coalition of farmworkers staged protests and led boycotts of corporations such as McDonald’s and Taco Bell, which helped persuade the companies to join their push for better treatment. This led to the creation of the Fair Food Program, an initiative that certifies farms that comply with strict safety standards and gives them access to some of the largest buyers of produce. Farms in 10 states now participate in the program, providing protections for roughly 20,000 workers.

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  • Hot? Hungry? Step inside these food forests.

    Organizations in cities across the United States, including Philadelphia and Tucson, are simultaneously combatting urban heat and hunger by planting fruit trees and edible plants that provide shade and food that community members can harvest.

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  • How Africa's first heat officer is protecting women in Sierra Leone

    Heat officers appointed by local city council and the Transform Freetown initiative work to make the city greener and more livable by helping residents cope with extreme heat, particularly women working as outdoor vendors. Local heat officers have introduced measures like installing cool pavements, mirrored roofing and planting trees to keep residents cool. In 2022, local city council installed shade covers to protect 2,300 street vendors from the heat and heavy rain in open-air markets.

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  • Texas contractor using wearable tech to keep employees safe in heat

    Rogers O’Brien Construction uses SafeGuard’s smartwatch technology to keep workers safe in the extreme heat. SafeGuard monitors heat levels, oxygen levels, air quality and other metrics, and if it senses something isn’t right, it sends an alert so the worker knows to take a moment to rest. The construction company says the watch has caught several employees’ body temperatures rising to unsafe levels, allowing them to interfere before it was too late.

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  • Why heat waves become deadly

    As deadly heat waves become more common, cities are looking to increase social infrastructure and community connections to keep vulnerable community members safe from the heat.

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  • Adriana Carillo's life's work is to find migrants lost in the desert

    SOS Búsqueda y Rescate (or SOS Search and Rescue) is a woman-led border and migrant search-and-rescue group that braves the elements — like extreme desert temperatures — to locate migrants who get lost or left behind along their journey from Mexico to the U.S. Since 2020, the volunteer group has found 60 survivors and the remains of 65 others, allowing them to offer closure for families searching for their loved ones.

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  • Farmers Are Breeding Heat-Resistant Cows

    Farmers in Puerto Rico are breeding cows with a genetic mutation that makes it easier for them to maintain a healthy body temperature despite rising temperatures, which improves their milk production and fertility.

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  • A 'Cool Roof' Can Help You Beat The Heat — And Save Money

    Cool roofs — or roofs that are bright white, reflect sunlight, and radiate heat instead of absorbing it — can help keep indoor temperatures lower and reduce the urban heat island effect.

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  • Virtual Power Plants Offer A Climate-Forward Response To Increasingly Hot Summers

    Virtual power plants are emerging in the United States and partnering with utility companies to manage energy demand during extreme weather and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These plants are actually a portfolio of energy resources, anything from smart appliances in homes to solar panels and electric vehicle infrastructure outside of homes, that are tracked and managed digitally. This enables virtual power plants to encourage minimal peak energy use, increase the amount of renewable energy sent back to the grid, and decrease the use of peaker power plants that rely on fossil fuels.

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