Green Minds Ep. 11: Highlights from SSDN’s Annual Meeting - Heat Mapping and Mitigation

SSDN‘s Green Minds

MaryPat Baldauf (Columbia, SC) nominated the session hosted by Tobin Freid (Durham County, NC) and KatieRose Levin (Cary, NC) as her favorite highlight of SSDN's 2022 annual meeting. The peer learning session was on Addressing Urban Heat Islands and Heat Mitigation Strategies - an appropriate topic with summer unofficially starting with Memorial Day in the Southeast.

Resource mentioned in this episode:

• UHI Mapping Initiative (Columbia): https://cpac.columbiasc.gov/urban-heat-island-mapping-initiative/
• Extreme Heat and UHI (Durham County): https://www.dconc.gov/county-departments/departments-a-e/engineering-and-environmental-services/sustainability-office/climate-resilience/extreme-heat/-fsiteid-1#!/
• Cool Roadways Partnership: https://globalcoolcities.org/cool-roadways-partnership/
• Tree Equity Score (American Forests): https://treeequityscore.org/