Heat out of the street

Your home… a place where you spend a lot of time 🏠🕒. It’s very important to keep your house cool during a heatwave ☃️. In the posts below there are several tips given you can do! And the best part is that no air conditioning is needed to perform these tips.

Rising temperatures are threatening urban areas 🏘. And when temperatures rise, cities suffer disproportionately because of the way they are built. Dark roofs, roads and other construction materials absorb incoming short-wave radiation from the Sun and re-radiate it as long-wave energy, warming the atmosphere nearby ☀️. Air conditioning adds to the problem by pulling heat from inside buildings and vehicles and dumping it outside, further driving up urban temperatures. Light colored roofs could bring us one step closer to cooler cities. ❄️

Do you want to help your city being more green and eco friendly? Say yes to this challenge! 🍀🌳

Green defeats heat! 🍀🌳

Rising temperatures are threatening urban areas. Cities around the globe are getting more and more aware of the dangers of heat stress. Heat stress is a hidden risk compared to something like flooding, which is very visual, and you can see the impact of straight away. But how can we lower heat stress in cities? The solution might not be as impossible as one may think 🤔. Urban green can play a big part in lowering the temperatures in cities. Urban green areas can also have positive effects for human health and climate change adaptation. You can help your city becoming a cooler place, by planting a tree in your own garden or in a garden of a relative! 🌴🌼

Cities are warming up more and more, partly because of the global climate that is warming up 🌡🥵. Cities are built with houses, offices and induction areas, often there is not much room for greenery. Because of these aspects, the heat in the cities stays longer. With these 4 reasons the we are going to convince you that green is good for the city. 🌳

With warm weather and extreme heats come a lot of health risks. A heat stoke is one of this risks and can be very dangerous 🥵. In this post you will find 4 simple tips to help prevent a heat stroke and to keep your self cool during hot weather 💪. Swipe to start with tips for inside the house and continue swiping for tips that apply for outside . For more tips to prevent a heat stroke and signs of a heat stroke click on the link in the bio.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heat-stroke/symptoms-causes/syc-20353581

Heat stress can be very dangerous for people 🤕🏥. Especially if they are categorized in the ‘vulnerable’ category. But how can we help the people who are more vulnerable to and how will people with COVID-19 be affected by heat stress. 🦠

A lot of cities are taking measurements to protect their inhabitants from extreme heat. How? You will find out in this post! 🤓

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Paris is a city with different buildings from different periods in her history 🥐🇫🇷. The city can be divided into four architectural periods: Roman, Medieval, Renaissance and Classical. This makes that 80% of the buildings are built before 1945. Roofs are not isolated or ventilated en normally made of zinc or slate. Besides the buildings there are the streets which are made of asphalt and concrete. This combined creates the heat island effect ☀️🏝. To reduce the temperature, Paris is greening the city. They added 4.7 hectares of green roofs and there are more than 450 parks and gardens 🍃🌳. Besides this there are more than 200.000 trees spread all over the country. For more information, check the following website https://tinyurl.com/y8q36pyr

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The city of London is busy building a Green infrastructure 🎡🇬🇧. There are even plans to make more than half of the city green by 2050. The get a step closer to this goal, the major of London made the city in July 2019 the first National Park City. This way, the ‘green belt’ of the cities stays protected and there will be more quality green on the long term. If you want more information, just check the following link: https://tinyurl.com/y87zbf9s

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To make the hottest times of the day livable for inhabitants 😎, the local government of Phoenix created the ‘Heat Relief Network’. This network provides free water and indoor locations to cool off and is formed with the intensions of providing resources to the most vulnerable people 🥤🏨. These centres are spread over the whole city and surrounding areas and are mostly in public buildings like libraries, churches, schools or community centres. A map where you can find the exact locations can be found on the website of the local government or in the following Storymap https://tinyurl.com/y7auedbb 📰🌎

We as people cause a lot of air pollution, especially in the big cities of the world 🚯. This air pollution appears as smog, looming over these cities. They cause a lot of health problems and warm up the city🥵. Down below you can see all the details about smog and how it can affect your daily live.

In 2030 the world population is expected to grow to 8.6 billion people 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️. They expect that by 2050, 68 percent of the world’s population will live in urban areas. Today this number is 55 percent of the population who lives in urban areas. The urbanization, gradual shift from the population from rural area to urban areas, makes that more people are living in the city 🏢. And this will be in combination with the overall growth of the world’s population. About 90 percent of this growth will be in Africa and Asia 🌍🌏.

The average world's surface temperature is rising every year 🥵. Therefor it is necessary to do something now. To see examples of what you can do to help, swipe left.

Since the late 19th century the planet’s average surface temperature has risen about 0.9 degrees Celsius 🌡🥵. This change is due to the increased carbon dioxide and other human-made discharge into the atmosphere. This is all on a global scale 🌍, but zooming in to regional spots in the world, the average surface temperature can be even higher. To see which regions heat up the most, swipe left. 🔥