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9 Low-Tech Steps for Community Resilience in a Warming Climate

By Kaid Benfield, director of sustainable communities at Natural Resources Defense Council

heat vulnerability in the US (by: NRDC)

Over the past 50 years, our average global temperature has increased at the fastest rate in recorded history.  That is fact, not opinion.  Scientists say that under current trends, average US temperatures could be 3 to 9 degrees higher by the end of the century. Continue reading