Augustana Church's "green team," which has handled smaller environmental projects, is using city funds to build a solar array that could meet the church's power needs.
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City dwellers face extra risk due to summer heat thanks to the urban heat island effect, in which man-made changes to the environment drive up temperatures in metropolitan areas.