Ladd Keith, Ph.D.

Blog

  • Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Daphne Lundi

    Extreme Heat Resilience in New York City

    Daphne Lundi joined our Extreme Heat Network webinar series to discuss New York City’s efforts to increase resilience to extreme heat. She discussed Cool Neighborhoods NYC, the city’s heat adaptation plan, and updating building regulations and zoning regulations with heat in mind.

    Daphne Lundi is Senior Policy Advisor with the NYC Mayor’s Office of Resiliency. Her work focuses on implementing programs that strengthen and prepare NYC communities against climate change impacts. Prior to that, she was an urban planner at the NYC Department of City Planning focused on climate resilience and neighborhood planning.

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  • Interview with Mark Brodie on KJZZ on the Growing Concern of Extreme Heat

    I did an interview with Mark Brodie on Phoenix NPR affiliate, 91.5 KJZZ’s The Show, where we discussed the Urban Land Institute’s Scorched: Extreme Heat and Real Estate report and how more cities and developers are taking extreme heat as a climate risk seriously.

    Take a listen!

  • Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Matthew Roach

    Heat-Health Information on Arizona’s Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Portal

    Matthew Roach, Epidemiology Program Manager at Arizona Department of Health Services, joined our Extreme Heat Network webinar series to discuss Arizona’s Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) portal on heat risk factors and heat illness. The EPHT has data from national and local sources to view both environmental and health outcome data in one easily accessible place.

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  • SXSW 2020 Panel – Storytelling for Climate Action

    I’m excited to propose an SXSW 2020 panel on storytelling for climate action with Doug Parsons, host of the America Adapts podcast, and Amy Brady, Ph.D., editor, writer and cli-fi expert:

    Given the urgency of the climate crisis, we must consider multiple ways of communicating climate change so that people of all backgrounds can find ways into the global conversation. Hear from experts in science, culture and communication about how they successfully reach vastly different audiences. Discover how panelists give narrative shape to the climate crisis to reach decision-makers in cities of different sizes and political leanings, different consumers of cli-fi (climate fiction) novels and films, from activists to literature fans to scientists, and listeners of climate adaptation stories across the podcast medium. Learn how these climate crisis narratives meet and differ, how to navigate hope v despair through storytelling, and how to be a more effective climate communicator.

    There’s a public voting component to the selection process, so if you have a minute please create a quick account and vote for our panel by August 23, 2019. Thanks!

  • Extreme Heat Network Webinar with Mead Mier

    Lessons from the Tucson Region’s Urban Heat Island Map

    Mead Mier, Sustainability Coordinator with Pima Association of Governments, joined our Extreme Heat Network webinar series to discuss her experiences with PAG’s Green Infrastructure Prioritization Tool, which hosts the Tucson region’s urban heat island map, and explains how the map is being used in decision-making to help increase heat resilience.

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