Is there anywhere in the U.S. that will still make a good home as the climate crisis continues? There are cities referred to as “climate havens” because they are located in areas less likely to suffer from extreme weather events and because they are designed in such a way that they could welcome more residents.
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Early in 2020, the city of Jackson received a Leadership in Community Resilience grant from NLC to design and activate its Heat Preparedness Plan. Through a series of targeted interviews, surveys, and focus groups with frontline residents, the team set out to better understand how Jackson’s most at-risk residents perceive the dangers of extreme heat, and how they typically prepare for these often-life-threatening events.
Although it is now winter across much of the US and the worst of the summer heat has subsided, it is easy to forget that 2020 was a record-breaking year for extreme heat (again):
August was the warmest summer on record
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Doug and Judith Saum moved to New Hampshire from Reno, Nev., to escape the health effects of worsening wildfire smoke
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The impacts of climate change could prompt millions of Americans to relocate in coming decades, moving inland away from rising seas, or north to escape rising temperatures.
Judith and Doug Saum have moved already, recently leaving their home outside Reno, Nev. It was with a view of the Sierra [Nevada Mountains] that was just to die for, Judith says. We had a lot of friends, musician friends, we d get together and play music with them often. It wasn t easy to leave all that.