Resources

CalEnviroScreen (CES) is a tool developed by the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to identify communities that are disproportionately impacted by a combination of environmental stressors and socioeconomic disadvantages. 

The Heat Island Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory works to cool buildings, cities, and the planet by making roofs, pavements, and cars cooler in the sun.

Over the past six years, NOAA (Office of Education, Climate Program Office, National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS)) has funded CAPA Heat Watch to support 60+ communities across the United States in mapping their urban heat islands (UHI).

Article on urban heat islands and marginalized communities in a magazine published twice per year by Rausser College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley.