June 2021 saw unprecedently hot temperatures in British Columbia. Read about climate change, rising temperatures, and forest fires, and follow UBC expert advice by contacting your elected Member of Parliament to demand climate action, e.g., The Honourable Joyce Murray for our Vancouver campus.
- Keeping cool in a heat dome
How did you stay cool during the June heat wave? To help you stay chilled during the next hot spell, here are some strategies Sustainability Initiative members undertook: applying frozen towels as cooling compresses, misting with handheld spritzers, drinking plenty of liquids, and finding long-term sustainable approaches like heat pumps, which can be retrofitted as part of the City of Vancouver zero emissions plan.
- Cooling forests and equality
Urban forests offer infrastructure for shading the city. Vancouver has more work to do to ensure equal access to trees across neighbourhoods and balance climate injustices on our own doorsteps.
Forests remove one quarter of all human carbon emissions. Learn moreabout tropical, boreal, and temperate forests and the need to act to ensure they cool rather than heat our planet.
