On August 18 join Jaime González, Houston Healthy Cities Director for The Nature Conservancy in Texas, for a dialog about urban heat, the community science heat mapping process, and the new H3AT coalition working to develop science, communications, policies, and interventions that fight heat in our city and county.

 

Houston's urban heat issues are already serious and are forecasted to get much worse with the Climate Crisis. Urban heat negatively affects human and biodiversity health through the region and is more concentrated in underinvested communities and/or Communities of Color, widening historic inequalities. Fortunately, there is a burgeoning effort in Houston to map, understand, and mitigate our soaring temperatures.

 

Jaime González serves as the Houston Urban Conservation Programs Manager for The Nature Conservancy in Texas (TNC). His work at TNC involves building partnerships, and creating and managing projects, to help make Houston a more resilient, biologically diverse, cooler, healthier, and better-connected city. He is one of growing corps of 25 Nature Conservancy city leads working to create Healthier Cities using nature-based solutions throughout North America.

 

Website for the H3AT Heat Island mapping results.
 
The City of Houston press release about the study.