Hazardous Heat In Urban Areas Driven By Climate Change, Discriminatory Housing Policies
By Steve BynumHazardous Heat In Urban Areas Driven By Climate Change, Discriminatory Housing Policies
By Steve Bynum
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Reset’s sustainability contributor Karen Weigert talks about urban heat and how discriminatory policies like redlining, among others, links to disproportionate incidences of heat-related illnesses and death in people who live in marginalized communities.
GUEST: Karen Weigert, executive vice president, Slipstream; former chief sustainability officer, city of Chicago