Is this the most important election of our lifetimes? When it comes to climate change, and the changes we need to implement with alacrity, the November 3 election is unquestionably mega-important. Here are the basics for Los Angeles County voters: BALLOTS WILL SOON BE ARRIVING AT YOUR HOME. Due to COVID-19, Governor Gavin Newsom ordered vote-by-mail ballots to be […]

Climate Resolve offers numerous year-round internship opportunities to students interested in climate change, sustainability, public policy, advocacy, and community outreach. We’d like to introduce you to them, their work with us, and how they’ve helped make Los Angeles a stronger and more sustainable city in the face of climate change. Saman Salahuddin Background: I am […]

Written by Jonathan Parfrey for the August 2020 Climate Resolve Newsletter. This latest heatwave in Los Angeles should have a name. We name hurricanes and wildfires. Why not heat waves? If we gave heatwaves names, it’d help us remember this current weather disaster—and perhaps accelerate us into taking action to curtail the heat problem. We’re not in […]

Climate Resolve offers numerous year-round internship opportunities to students interested in climate change, sustainability, public policy, advocacy, and community outreach. We’d like to introduce you to them, their work with us, and how they’ve helped make Los Angeles a stronger and more sustainable city in the face of climate change. When Climate Resolve’s Natalie Hernandez […]

To say we are living through unprecedented times is inaccurate. Calls for social justice and governmental accountability are certainly coming into focus, yet this is nothing new. Centuries of racism—especially the wrongful treatment of black men and women—have been a shameful aspect of American culture since its beginnings. Climate Resolve stands with the Black Lives […]

Over the last several months, Climate Resolve has worked with the community of Canoga Park on implementing new street designs they would like to see around the Metro Orange Line Station at Sherman Way. The project aims to address a number of concerns: improving biking and walking safety, capturing and managing water, reducing heat and its impacts, […]

Travel Log by Bryn: Part IV 7: Tokyo Cool Pavement Flashback to geography class: there are 360 lines of longitude around the world going east to west, or vice versa. So far on this trip, we traveled eastward through the Middle East to get to India, meaning that we’d traveled through over 190 lines of […]

Travel Log by Bryn: Part III 5: Mumbai Temple Site Visit—Cool Pavement to Keep Bare Feet from Burning The next stop on our Far East trip was Mumbai, the commercial capital of India. I found it to be a beautiful seaside city with a vibrant street life and the most friendly people. There’s a fair […]

Travel Log by Bryn: Part II 4: Some Top Take-Aways from the IC2UHI Conference The three-day International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands (IC2UHI) was a forum for researchers to share their latest approaches at understanding how different strategies can protect people from the harms of urban heat. Some of the plenary sessions focused […]