Sustain 2024🍃🌎#39

Heat and Health 

by Alexis McCarthy May 2024

-April 2024 globally was the warmest April on record (since 1850)

-N. Hemisphere snow cover extent was the lowest on record for April

-Tools to help you navigate the heat and your health

-National Weather Service Heat Risk Map

-Climate and health outlook portal

-Beat the heat infographic

 -Harness the heat for good- investigate residential solar

A first step:

As temperatures rise take care of yourself and those around you-heat and chronic conditions-heat and older adults

Learn 

Innovations, Innovators, Thought Leaders, Changemakers, New Ideas, New Frontiers 

AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY SDG 7

• So Cool- Electric buses and when parked become a virtual power plant

• Great example of community solar

• Renewable energy passes 30% of energy supply

INDUSTRY INNOVATION & INFRASTRUCTURE SDG 8, 9 & 11

• Majority of US voters support climate litigation against big oil

• A material that heals itself-that's innovation

• Insurers climate alliance to relaunch

• Big oil privately acknowledged efforts to downplay climate crisis

RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION SDG 12

• Weddings with less waste

• Take-out containers from best to worst

• Consumers willing to spend 9.7% more for sustainable products- PWC

EQUITYSDG 5&10

• More than half the forests in Mexico in community and indigenous hands-less wildfires

• Gender lens investing update

• Nation's first tribal medical school

CLIMATE ACTION SDG 13, 14 & 15

• Climate scientists in despair

• 1st climate accountability lawsuit in PA Bucks county sues fossil fuel industry

• Hay for cattle accounts for 45% of Colorado River water usage

• Dutch accept the weeds and compete to remove garden pavers

MEDIA/BOOKS

• Short Circuiting Policy-Leah Cardamore Stokes