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Green Builder Media Announces May Lineup of Housing-Related Webinars


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Lake City, Colo., May 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Green Builder Media continues to churn out the most relevant content on the housing industry. Mark these three must-see webinars on your calendar:
May 12, 2 pm EST: Environmental Impacts on a Healthy Home: How Location Affects Disease, Illness, and Wellness
Explore how weather and environmental conditions impact vulnerable populations and affect the built environment at home and at work, and ways to ensure our homes help us live healthier every day. Discuss the conditions outdoors and indoors that may contribute to allergies, asthma, flu, and COVID this year. Learn a variety of near-term and longer-term steps that can be taken to create a healthier home throughout the year. ....

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Come Hell Or High Water, Asheville Is Climate "Winner"


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Back in 2006, when Scott Shuford was Asheville’s planning director, he reluctantly accepted a friend’s invitation to attend a meeting about the impact of climate change on local governments. 
“I didn’t see how a two-degree temperature change could affect the community,” he recalled, referring to the predicted rise in earth temperatures in years to come. “But I agreed to attend, thinking it would only be about 15 minutes. 
“After about an hour-and-a-half I came out of the meeting drenched in sweat.”
All the plans he had drafted up to that day suddenly seemed to have overlooked an unsettled future fraught with unanticipated challenges. Those two degrees of temperature change meant greater threats of weather extremes of torrential rains, devastating floods, and landslides, and of their opposites, extended drought and wildfire.  ....

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