Atlanta Embracing A Cheap, Effective Way To Beat Urban Heat: ‘Cool Roofs’
July 7th, 2025
Via Grist, a look at how – with white or reflective roofs significantly reducing temperatures – Atlanta is the latest city to mandate their adoption: Walk outside into 100-degree heat [...]
Cities Are Heating Up Planet: How They Can Do More To Fight Climate Change
July 4th, 2025 Via Illuminem, a look at how cities are heating up the planet – how they can do more to fight climate change: Cities have a central role to play tackling climate change. They contribute [...]
July 4th, 2025 Via Illuminem, a look at how cities are heating up the planet – how they can do more to fight climate change: Cities have a central role to play tackling climate change. They contribute [...]
California Is Running Out of Safe Places to Build Homes Due to Fires, Rising Seas
July 4th, 2025 Via Bloomberg, a look at how climate-related risks hamper the state’s ability to solve a housing crunch. It’s not alone. California, gripped by a housing shortage that is forcing families from [...]
July 4th, 2025 Via Bloomberg, a look at how climate-related risks hamper the state’s ability to solve a housing crunch. It’s not alone. California, gripped by a housing shortage that is forcing families from [...]
This Paint Sweats To Cool Off Buildings. No Energy Required.
June 25th, 2025 Via Anthropocene Magazine, a look at an innovative paint that replenishes its water supply by absorbing rain and water vapor. Its porous structure holds the water and then slowly releases it much [...]
June 25th, 2025 Via Anthropocene Magazine, a look at an innovative paint that replenishes its water supply by absorbing rain and water vapor. Its porous structure holds the water and then slowly releases it much [...]
India Is Using AI and Satellites to Map Urban Heat Vulnerability Down to the Building Level
June 23rd, 2025 Via Wired, a look at how remote-sensing data and artificial intelligence are mapping the most heat-vulnerable buildings in cities like Delhi, in an effort to target relief from extreme temperatures [...]
June 23rd, 2025 Via Wired, a look at how remote-sensing data and artificial intelligence are mapping the most heat-vulnerable buildings in cities like Delhi, in an effort to target relief from extreme temperatures [...]
Reforesting the Elm City
June 21st, 2025 Via Yale Alumni Magazine, a look at how the Urban Resources Initiative is planting thousands of trees to make New Haven a cooler city: At first, planting street trees in New Haven was nothing more [...]
June 21st, 2025 Via Yale Alumni Magazine, a look at how the Urban Resources Initiative is planting thousands of trees to make New Haven a cooler city: At first, planting street trees in New Haven was nothing more [...]