The existing building stock in the United States was not designed to cope with current extreme temperatures. Much needs to be done to fix aging housing, from upgrading poor insulation […]
Community infrastructure, such as thermal energy networks, district geothermal, urban forests, shade structures, and smart surfaces, can have a collectively lower upfront cost and lower community-wide energy consumption and the […]
The U.S. electric grid is straining to keep up with rising demand for electricity, creating potential risks to communities’ cooling systems in the face of intensifying extreme heat. This challenge […]
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