Extreme Heat and Real Estate We were joined by Katharine Burgess, Vice President of Urban Resilience and Elizabeth Foster, Manager of Urban Resilience at the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and Alex Ramirez, Office Director and Associate at Design Workshop for our latest Extreme Heat Network webinar. Our presenters discussed how private and public sector real… Continue reading Extreme Heat Webinar with the Urban Land Institute and Design Workshop
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Sustainable Built Environments Microcampus launched at UPC in Lima, Peru
Some good news to share with everyone during these uncertain times! Despite the current situation with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, my colleagues at the University of Arizona and I continue our mission to educate the next generation of sustainability professionals. This week we launched our first Sustainable Built Environments Microcampus at the Universidad Peruana de… Continue reading Sustainable Built Environments Microcampus launched at UPC in Lima, Peru
Participation and Engagement of Public Health Stakeholders in Climate and Health Adaptation
I have a new co-authored journal paper out on engaging public health stakeholders for climate adaption! Using a case study of Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) Coalition on Climate Change and Public Health workgroup and the Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS) program, we explored the role of scientist-public health stakeholder collaborations. We… Continue reading Participation and Engagement of Public Health Stakeholders in Climate and Health Adaptation
Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Pete Aniello
Rapid Production of Urban Heat Island Maps for the U.S. Pete Aniello joined our Extreme Heat Network webinar series to present The Trust for Public Land‘s new urban heat island dataset. The publicly accessible dataset is analysis-ready and contains the relative heat severity for every pixel for 14,000 cities, towns, and census-designated places in the… Continue reading Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Pete Aniello
America Adapts Podcast Episode on Extreme Heat
I’m very excited to share that I was a guest on the America Adapts podcast for its first episode focused on extreme heat! America Adapts is a podcast hosted by my colleague and friend, Doug Parsons, with over a hundred episodes exploring climate change, its impacts, and our responses with scientists, activists, policymakers, and climate… Continue reading America Adapts Podcast Episode on Extreme Heat