Cool Island Neighborhoods, West Mesa River Community
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Cool Island Neighborhoods is a community-based grassroots movement to change hot spots to cool spots through neighbors helping neighbors. The help can come in the form of a phone call to check on an elderly neighbor, help with planting trees, or setting up a sprinkler for the neighborhood kids. The movement has developed the following focus:
A grassroots movement to organize + build cool spots (islands)
Provide relief from the heat through community tree planting + more
Engage + empower communities to come together + join in neighborhood movement creating cool spots for increased comfort
Improve health and wellbeing
Join the movement!
Levels of engagement
Cool Island Neighborhoods welcomes all levels of engagement. This ranges from listening and learning to becoming a heat champion and advocating for urban heat solutions in your community.
Inform Give information to the community
Consult Give feedback on ideas, proposed projects, areas that are already cool, places that could use some shade
Cooling Champion Advocate for urban heat solutions in your neighborhood
Cool Island Neighborhoods is a community-based grassroots movement to change hot spots to cool spots through neighbors helping neighbors. The help can come in the form of a phone call to check on an elderly neighbor, help with planting trees, or setting up a sprinkler for the neighborhood kids. The movement has developed the following focus:
A grassroots movement to organize + build cool spots (islands)
Provide relief from the heat through community tree planting + more
Engage + empower communities to come together + join in neighborhood movement creating cool spots for increased comfort
Improve health and wellbeing
Join the movement!
Levels of engagement
Cool Island Neighborhoods welcomes all levels of engagement. This ranges from listening and learning to becoming a heat champion and advocating for urban heat solutions in your community.
Inform Give information to the community
Consult Give feedback on ideas, proposed projects, areas that are already cool, places that could use some shade
Cooling Champion Advocate for urban heat solutions in your neighborhood
Heat is a challenge for many of our neighbors, but their heat stories often go untold. Here we want to hear your heat stories. This is a place for us all to learn about or neighbors experiences with heat.
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