Keeping Tabs
Links and other updates from Sierra Club Seattle Group
Articles
Could the voting rights fight hinder climate and energy policies? (Politico)
“The same people that are impacted by climate change and pollution and environmental injustice are the same people that are targeted by voter suppression and corporate polluter money because the intent is to silence their voices,” said Courtney Hight, director of the Sierra Club’s Democracy Program.
The High Price of Losing the War Against Urban Heat (CityLab)
Adopting these “smart” surfaces on a citywide scale can not only reduce summer temperatures in Baltimore by 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit on average and 4.5 degrees in the hottest areas; it can also yield $13 billion in economic benefits over 20 years — 10 times the initial cost.
Car culture disproportionately kills Black Americans. The pandemic made things worse. (Grist)
“For generations now, we’ve prioritized the needs of automobiles, while ignoring the needs of all other modes of transportation such as bicyclists, pedestrians, and transit users,” he said. “Communities of color have been especially dissected and made unsafe and unhealthy.”
Are ‘heat pumps’ the answer to heat waves? Some cities think so. (Seattle Times)
Today, Americans buy more than 5 million one-way air conditioners and 3 million two-way heat pumps each year. “If virtually all of those sales were heat pumps, we could put a big dent in fossil fuel use,” Adams said.
Miscellany
Design your own dream transit stop with this cute Picrew! (Page in Japanese)
